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All over the news this morning: Rio Tinto rejects Tiwai subsidy offer Rio Tinto has rejected the Government's offer to subsidise the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter power bill. The smelter needs help to survive - it has been shedding staff and could close if it…
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New Zealand is a country with a proud history of activism and protest. First country in the world where women won the vote. The anti-apartheid protests around the 1981 Springbok tour. The anti nuclear protests. The massive march down Queen St that got the Nats…
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Sometimes, I wonder where Granny Herald gets her crack from. It's clearly strong stuff. Like when she runs an editorial soundly condemning an opposition MP for doing something that the same editorial admits is justified. Today, Cunliffe gets an earful for daring to suggest that…
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As you know, the Right says more money incentivises harder work. John Key felt he wasn't working very hard when he first became PM on a net $250,000 a year, so he gave himself tax cuts and pay rises worth $100 a day. Just look…
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Various changes to tax and related rules come in to effect today, along with a derisory rise in the minimum wage the main effect is that of "Earners squeezed by tax changes". What also strikes me about the changes is the amount of dithering involved. Here's…
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A raft of Tory policies have been dismantling what is left of the British welfare state (after Thatcherism set them on this destructive and inhumane path). This includes the so-called "Bedroom Tax" which will cut the amount of benefit people can get if they have a…
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