The government last week made two announcements that sent two completely different messages about workers’ rights. Their first announcement was a pay freeze across the public service. It was an announcement that most would expect to come from a conservative government. The only sign that it wasn’t from a
Martien Lubberink Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Associate Professor Martien Lubberink completed his PhD in Economics at Groningen University. He has since worked at Lancaster University. After his sabbatical year at UNC Chapel Hill, Dr. Lubberink joined De Nederlandsche Bank, the central bank of the Netherlands. Set against
David Seymour ACT Leader Compulsory unionism is undemocratic, will be a wrecking ball on the economy, and doesn’t solve any identified problem. Today’s proposal is far more radical than anything the Government has proposed before. It said it would initially be ‘one or two industries.’ Today’s proposal
The French used to refer to sadomasochism as le vice Anglais, hinting that infant exposure to harshly disciplinarian nannies bestowed the English upper-classes with a fetish for sexual humiliation. Watching the sad decline of Prince Harry – once a hulking, military blue-blood, now a snivelling, wet ginger, a George Roper in
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Plans by the Government to reallocate $926 million of money unspent from the Covid Response and Recovery Fund is irresponsible and burdens future generations with even more debt than is necessary, National’s Finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. Finance Minister Grant Robertson told a Wellington Chamber of Commerce audience this
The Government should be much further down the road towards reconnecting New Zealand with the Pacific Islands than it currently is, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “I’m pleased the Cook Islands travel bubble finally has a start date, but the time it took to figure out quarantine-free
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister’s paternalism of the Cook Islands has caused economic and emotional harm to our Pacific neighbours that will take years to fix. ACT was calling for a travel bubble with the Cooks in July last year. Here we are almost a year later
Last Friday’s Face of the Day, Mark Dunajtschik, got me thinking. This is the man building and donating Wellington’s new children’s hospital. Dunajtschik, a property developer of considerable experience, and a philanthropist as well, expressed his surprise that NZTA (Waka Kotahi, which literally translates to ‘One Canoe’
Eliora Dr Brash, who led the Reserve Bank between 1988 and 2002 before going into politics, said it’s not the Reserve Bank’s job to fix the housing crisis. Newshub 29 April 21 Fixing a housing crisis is not part of the Reserve Bank’s remit. Kiwis have recently
Has anyone noticed that there have not been any student protest marches during the school holidays despite a recent climate summit during the holidays? It’s almost as if the protests are really organised by adults with an agenda… If you enjoyed this Satirical image please share it so others
David Seymour ACT leader Victoria’s plan to open up to international students and workers is what ACT has been calling for since August last year and New Zealand should follow suit. The Australian state of Victoria is doing this right with plans underway for international students and essential workers
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It is worrying that the Government’s slow vaccine rollout has caused New Zealand to slip behind Singapore in Bloomberg’s index of the best places to be during the Covid-19 pandemic, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “New Zealand should be on equal footing with Singapore when
