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Open mike 08/09/2024
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Unions are still relevant
Unions are not for everyone but just shy of half a million (488,700) or just under 20% of all paid employees belong to a union (24Q2). Over the last 8 years this percentage has increased, slowly but surely. Union membership is relatively evenly spread between…
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Open mike 07/09/2024
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Daily review 06/09/2024
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Gormless Government releases confidential legal advice on Charter School law
It is difficult to work out what is more concerning about the latest mistake committed by this Government. Is it the deeply cynicial attacks on workers' rights and conditions of work that are in breach of international labour organisations rules as well as foreign trade…
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Open mike 06/09/2024
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Daily review 05/09/2024
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Guess who needs help with his literacy and numeracy?
Remember when Christopher Luxon told the National Party that we had a maths teaching crisis? His exact words were: Today we can tell you about shocking new data on student achievement in maths last year. Looking at kids who are about to go to high…
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Open mike 05/09/2024
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Daily review 04/09/2024
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Shane Jones is obsessed with communists
Shane Jones has been getting into the news recently after his comment that High Court Judge Cheryl Gwyn was a communist made at a private meeting was revealed in the media. Yes Judge Cheryl Gwyn has some historical links to the far left. Back in…
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Willis’s Bungling of the Kiwirail Interislander Cancellation
This article is a repost from the Mountain Tui substack. Today, RNZ revealed that despite MFAT advice to Nicola Willis to be very "careful and deliberate" in her communications with the South Korean government, prior to any public announcement on cancelling Kiwirail's i-Rex, Willis instead…
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Open mike 04/09/2024
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Daily review 03/09/2024
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National’s eternal road obsession
The year is 2035. After a successful three term Kieran McAnaulty-Carmel Sepuloni joint Prime Ministership which started in 2026 after the last National Government imploded, National, this time led by Simeon Brown, regain power. The last Labour Government may have eradicated child poverty and homelessness,…
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Open mike 03/09/2024
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Daily review 02/09/2024
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Let’s Talk About Tax
Yes, Labour can restore its woeful tax position. In 2019, at the height of her popularity and despite her campaigning on it for over three years, Labour’s Jacinda Ardern ruled out the capital gains tax that her own tax advisory group had just recommended. This…
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Open mike 02/09/2024
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