Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards WELFARE Gordon Campbell: On The Crackdown On The Beneficiary Poor Bridie Witton (Stuff): ACT pushes for harsher sanctions on beneficiaries who ‘keep having children’ Amy Williams (RNZ): JobSeekers already being warned of benefit cuts Giles Dexter (RNZ): How will the benefit changes coming next
Normally he has tits for hands but on this issue Christopher Luxon has the right of it. Naturally the opposition banshees are squawking: a sure fire way of knowing he’s right over the target.
Productivity in this sphere in New Zealand, compared to other countries, is phenomenal. Could it be because sport is a meritocracy?
Politicians are acting superficially without understanding; treating biotechnology as if it were solely an economic fantasyland without rules or risks. Action without understanding is ultimately self-destructive.
Despite the 2017 election promise to halt state house sell-offs, the agency stated that these sales were part of a strategic asset management practice.
Is this the world we want? Is it the world we want for our children and grandchildren? The answer is a very definite no: it is not.
if the coalition’s proposed law change contains “tikanga”, it cannot safeguard the public interest in the coast from the actions of activist judges in the future.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards WELFARE Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): Welcome to the benefit Olympics Stewart Bowman-Lund (Spinoff): The green light flicks on for tougher beneficiary sanctions Glenn McConnell (Stuff): New sanctions for beneficiaries, but minister doesn’t know what happens post-sanction Russell Palmer and Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Government benefit
The Police Association has never been the same since Greg O'Connor left for parliament and was replaced by Chris Cahill, who can best be described as a functional idiot.
Strong evidence now shows direct advertising can lead to unnecessary, inappropriate and sometimes harmful prescribing.
We either have to get real about using our own coal and gas reserves, or we have to think seriously, really seriously, about another form of power generation – the nuclear reactor.
Commissar (noun): An official in any communist government whose duties include political indoctrination and the detection of political deviation.
The question is, therefore, how to fix this quality problem. And it’s far from clear that the best answer is to just give party leaders the ability to fire MPs via the waka-jumping law.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ENERGY Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Electricity Crisis: why we are ‘forked’ (paywalled) RNZ: Pressure on power companies to act as energy woes mount Press Editorial (Post): The exercising of power (paywalled) Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Winston Peters says he ‘knows’ power companies are profiteering during ‘crisis’
Labour spokesperson only talking about 'if' Labour gets back in as they oppose the educational reforms the public are crying out for.
