For the business pages, it's Reserve Bank week and once again the banks want the Governor to push up the price of money, while those in the real economy where the jobs are want interest rates kept steady. As they say, there are no signs…
This comment from Jenny needs to be a post! -- r0b Remember when John Key used to talk about the "underclass". Much [more] recently of course John Key's policy direction has been more about pandering to the wealthy elite, so you don't hear so much…
When is a promise not a promise? More specifically, why can John Key get away breaking some promises and not others? He pays the appropriate lip service to promises: "We campaigned on some key and core commitments and we're not going to break those promises…
The Herald reports that Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members have won the right to a substitute holiday to make up for the fact that Anzac Day and Easter Monday fall on the same day next year as well as a three percent pay rise…
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