More with less – or else (UK style)
A conservative council in the UK sacked it’s entire workforce and offered them their jobs again the next day if they accepted a […]
Tammy Gordon
The great debt myth
This government’s got a real talent for manufacturing crisis to suit them. The debt disaster is a classic – in order to get out of debt we have to cut public spending to the tune of almost $1billion and sell assets.
Budget Protest at Parliament today
Unions and community groups don’t need to wait till after the Budget is read to know they’ve been screwed. They’re gathering today at […]
Don’t cut our future – Budget cut protest
The signs are clear that the Goverment is ploughing ahead with spending cuts and that Budget 2011 will contain yet more cuts to public services and still maintain tax cuts for the wealthy. On Budget Day, community groups, unions, and Kiwis who have just had enough will gather outside Parliament to protest.
Nice to have
The PSA is the frontline in our fight against National’s plans to savagely cut our public services. Much in the same vein as the sticker campaign that Eddie posted on yesterday, the PSA has used humour to get across an incisive message: what the rich elitists in National consider ‘nice to have’ is very different from what we value.
Cunliffe responds to Marty G
Given the importance of this debate, I thought I’d just lift this straight from David Cunliffe’s post on Red Alert:
“I guess it’s all in a day’s work, but MartyG on The Standard misintrepeted my position on PPPs in this recent post.”
NZ media asleep at the wheel
Democracy is quietly dying in NZ but you’d never know it by the media’s response. The government is rushing through a slew* of […]
US says no to fox guarding NZ meat
I know it’s in National’s DNA to fight regulation where ever they find it but it looks like the meat industry and government ‘watch dog’ MAF’s […]
Short and sweet
At the risk of following Bill’s excellent post with something seriously lightweight, I just read this in the Listener and thought it was […]
Democracy only for Luddites?
In the Today in Politics column in the DomPost there’s a snippy little piece about the Fairness at Work submissions. The CTU reckons around […]
Where do you stand
Obviously tired of politicians saying one thing on the campaign trail and then doing the exact opposite when they’re in office (which reminds […]
It’s outrageous
Whatever flimsy and tattered remains of Labour-lite which National used to disguise itself at the 2008 election has well and truly disappeared. Thank […]
Fairness at Work rallies 21 & 22 August
Unions are getting together to oppose the government’s changes to employment law with rallies in the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
Click through for the schedule.
Abortion debate the silver bullet Labour needs -not!
I was talking to an old friend last night. She’s been a Labour voter/supporter/activist nearly all her adult life. She lives in Rotorua. […]
Creeping privatisation in local government
It’s an innocous looking bill but Rodney Hide’s Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill packs a wallop when you unpick it. Not only does it open the door for the privatisation of our water services, it positively ushers it in, takes off its coat and says ‘stay a spell, why don’t you?’, 35 years in fact.
Happy Birthday Jim?
Jim Bolger’s mates have got together and put a half page ad (including a list of who they all are) in today’s DomPost to wish him a happy birthday and to thank him for his many years of public service.
World Cup could bypass Welly overnights?
Seems that negotiations are underway to allow Wellington Airport stay open all night (last flights now are about 9pm) during the World Cup so that fans can travel direct to the next game thus avoiding the need for an overnight in Welly.
Carmel Sepuloni takes Waitakere selection
Two list MPs and a popular local favourit son. It was always going to be a hard one to pick and it took […]
Tenants already taking the hit
I got a call from a friend today, thanks to National his rent is going up. I’ll call him Ned. He’s retired and […]
Electoral finance reform hohum?
I’ve been looking for feedback on Simon Power’s electoral finance reform package but I can’t find anything from Labour. After the hell that rained down on them over the EFA (much of it richly deserved) I can only assume that Labour thinks National’s got it about right.
Key’s hand-washing powers Phil
I don’t know if the two are related but this is my theory du jour. John Key keeps washing his hands of both […]
Fed Farmers -stunning specificity to bring dollar down
Have a listen to Sean Plunket’s interview this morning with Fed Farmer’s economic spokesperson Philip York. Fed Farmers is calling on the government […]
ACC deja vous
Here we go again. July 1st 1999 and Prime Minister Jenny Shipley opens ACC to competition. I’d forgotten it was one of the […]
John Key at CTU conference
Heard over the lunch time news that John Key was the keynote (oh how he must never tire of that) speaker at the […]
Labour where art thou?
I’m not going to repeat the list of all the things that are starting to make people angry and scared or catalogue the […]
A beautiful mind – read it and weep
An email doing the rounds of the women’s networks found its way to me today. It’s link to an article about the late […]
Going forward…
Like r0b, I’m the new kid on The Standard’s block. Sounds like he got the cool initiation. I, on the other hand, had […]