Public sector pay freeze Stuff: Editorial – Pay freeze stretches public sector loyalty Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Pay freeze shows Government can’t manage the books Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Pay freeze controversy enters second day, with Greens and National pressing Labour Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Do people really earn more
Labour watered down Act deputy leader Brooke van Velden‘s resolution about Uighur genocide in a futile exercise of CCP bootlicking. The much-weakened statement, however, has still managed to enrage the CCP: China has lashed out after New Zealand’s Parliament declared “severe human rights abuses” are occurring there
It’s disappointing the Government has chosen to block an inquiry into the increasing violence being experienced in our prisons, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. Mr Brown says that since Kelvin Davis became Minister of Corrections there has been a 92 per cent increase in prisoner assaults on
David Seymour ACT Leader A slush fund of taxpayers’ money announced less than two weeks before the election has created just five per cent of the jobs promised and New Zealanders are owed an explanation. Information revealed by the ACT Party shows that 158 full time jobs have been created
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she retains confidence in the Speaker, but has expressed “serious concerns” to him about his conduct. What a complete joke! The PM says that her concerns about Speaker Trevor Mallard are “serious”, yet she hasn’t taken them seriously at all. Her only action on
Louise Humpage University of Auckland Louise Humpage is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Auckland. After receiving a doctorate in Sociology from Massey University in 2003, she held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, Melbourne for 2.5 years. She
The Government is putting regional roading projects and important safety improvements across the country at risk by raiding the National Land Transport Fund to invest more in rail, National’s Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. “Kiwis across the country have been paying more at the pump in fuel taxes they
John Rofe Experienced Private Fraud Investigator 2 August 2020 Dear Superintendant, Following many years of investigation and supported by both empirical scientific evidence and having diligently and independently pursued the empirical observations to back up my allegations, I wish to register three complaints of fraud. They are as follows: FORMAL
Failed editor, hard-left writer, and cycling aficionado Simon Wilson tweeted a Rod Emmerson cartoon from the NZ Herald: Oh we all laughed and chortled with Simon Wilson…until one of our moderators spat in Wilson’s coffee with some facts: It is as clear cut a case of plagiarism
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Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice Spokesperson Figures uncovered by ACT show disorder is increasing in our prisons and action is urgently needed. Disorder incidents went from 27 in 2016/17 to 58 in 2019/20. These incidents include arson, taking a hostage, a riot and damaging property. When disorder incidents
Susan Short Secretary democracyaction@xtra.co.nz It is obvious from feedback we have been receiving lately that more and more people are becoming disillusioned, frustrated and angry about the direction the Government is taking our country. It seems like every other day another decree is declared that is creating
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust The Sensible Sentencing Trust is calling on the government to introduce body cameras for all frontline police officers. “With more and more officers being attacked and constant online cell-phone footage of alleged violent arrests with little or no context – body cameras
Yesterday the Labour Government blocked an inquiry into the Mental Health and Addiction Services annual report calling into question once again its openness and transparency, National’s Mental Health spokesperson Matt Doocey says. New Zealanders deserve to have confidence in the Ministry of Health, so yesterday Mr Doocey called for
