You can tell a lot about someone by the friends they cultivate. Friends, after all, are the people you pick, unlike your family. Australia and New Zealand are family: a pair of occasionally squabbling siblings who’ve nevertheless spent the last century more or less getting along under the same
Recently I received an email from the Antique Arms National President, Andrew Edgecombe. In the email, he has a crack at me (Note to Andrew: I don’t use minions) and my messages about the failures of COLFO. I will address his email in this article on the points that
Public sector pay freeze Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Grant Robertson schedules union crisis meetings after failing to communicate public pay freeze properly Chris Trotter (Interest): Playing by a new set of rules RNZ: Government urged to rethink public sector pay freeze decision Henry Cooke (Stuff): Government in damage control over public
Mike King is someone who has done more than most in the area of mental health. The government has yet again been exposed for its empty slogans and poor delivery; this time in mental health: Is anybody else confused by the shortage of mental health counselling services around the country
We’re focused on the issues that matter to Kiwis. Catch up on the latest in politics with our Week in Review below. * PM needs to give straight answers on He Puapua. * Labour’s union paymasters get their rewards. * Government vetoes mental health and prison violence inquiries. * Labour not interested
Roger Partridge nzinitiative.org.nz The Government’s proposal announced Friday, May 7th to impose compulsory industry-wide collective bargaining on employees and employers without their agreement or even their participation will harm everyone but unions,” said Roger Partridge, chair of The New Zealand Initiative. Partridge said The New Zealand
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Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Is Labour supposed to be the party of labour or of capital? It’s often hard to tell these
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
The Labour Party and Jacinda Ardern in particular have developed a rather poor habit of announcing big things and delivering either nothing at all, or nothing that can in any way be described as even remotely approaching success. And so, after much fanfare, a promise of 3,000 jobs, and
Good morning, delegates. It’s an absolute privilege to be speaking to you all here today as your leader. I’d like to acknowledge National Party President Peter Goodfellow, my fellow board members, my lower North Island colleagues and all of you, the members of the National Party. It is
Public sector pay freeze Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: The Public sector worker backlash against Labour Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why Jacinda Ardern needs to make a John Key-style u-turn on pay sector freeze Alexia Russell (RNZ): Pay freezing out your traditional voter base Liam Dann (Herald): Muldoon
The media aren’t sticking up for Trevor Mallard at all: Barry Soper: He was told time and time again he’d ruined this man’s life, destroying his career and making him fight a case Mallard knew from the beginning he himself could never win. The only concession he
Hobson’s Pledge Trust Sixty-nine per cent oppose a plan for two governments under a tribal compliance committee while 20 per cent said news of the plan would change the way they voted, according to a poll that finished on Friday Researchers Pure Profile did an internet survey of
Coffey said he believed Rotorua had the capacity to welcome tourists “while showing that same manaakitanga to families and children in need of a warm, secure dry home during a global pandemic”. “If Australians choose not to come here, it will be because of incorrect information that some of our
