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Public sector pay freeze Claire Trevett (Herald): PM steps in, the melting of the pay freeze begins (paywalled) Jordan Bond (RNZ): Public sector pay freeze: Nurses warming to strike action plan – union Henry Cooke (Stuff): Thawing freeze: Jacinda Ardern says Government is open to introducing step-based pay for more
The Government has announced some draconian new laws, that will apparently deprive gang members of guns. No one has bothered to stop and think it through, or to use even joined-up thinking: The Government will make it illegal for “high-risk people” including gang members and serious criminals to
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[…] She insisted the freeze was not a freeze because workers on graduated pay agreements would still get a pay increase by virtue of moving up a step. […] Facing revolt, the pressure on the Government yielded some minor concessions and one more important concession. The major one – and the only one
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The Prime Minister’s comments today in Question Time that Chris Hipkins’ promise that New Zealand would be at the “front of the queue” for Covid-19 vaccines actually meant that we would be at the front of the queue in terms of signing contracts are baffling, says National’s
When the going gets crazy, the crazy gets real. We live in crazy times, folks. Women have penises, men breastfeed, oops, “chest feed” babies, and black-shirted, violent, statist thugs call themselves “anti-fascists”. In these crazy times, yesterday’s nutty conspiracy theory is today’s news. QAnon nutters insist
David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern’s reasoning for forcing undemocratic union contracts on people who don’t want any part of them just doesn’t add up. The Government originally said only one or two industries would be affected by this policy, then in Parliament today Ardern said three
David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern needs to drop her Government’s covert plan to redefine the Treaty and have an honest conversation with New Zealanders. This Government has unleashed an avalanche of race-based policies and giving Maori greater rights when it comes to conservation land could be the
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust Sensible Sentencing Trust is once again calling for the government to introduce bodycams for all frontline officers with yet another short clip of an arrest bringing accusations of police brutality. “The trial by social media has begun again with shortened cell-phone
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IINZ israelinstitute.nz Human Rights Watch released a report recently that accused Israel of practicing ‘Apartheid’. It was well publicised in the media and by activists. However, there are serious issues with the methodology and findings that can be attributed partly to the character of the authors and employees 1.
10th May 2021 Informants are making a reappearance in Myanmar. In all the previous uprisings informants have made a major impact. They are again leading the military to people they wish to abduct/intern and this has resulted in civilians being arrested and detained. Unlike the previous insurrections, the civilians
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust The government has announced the introduction of ‘Firearm Prohibition Orders’(FPO) which in a nutshell is telling criminals who don’t care about the laws, that there are more laws in place to not care about, says Darroch Ball co-leader of
Viv Forbes The UK has seen many waves of invaders and colonisers – Neanderthals, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Norsemen, Normans and more recently Indians and Pakistanis. Only Irish, Welsh and Scottish inhabitants have had the strength to get special recognition today. No human race evolved in Australia – several races
Macca Things are really starting to heat up over in the US regarding the stolen election. President Trump is becoming more vocal each day as more and more diamond-hard evidence comes to the fore that the Democrats tried to pull off the biggest scam in the history of the
