Who'd have thought? An oil company coming out on the side of New Zealand's biggest environmental organisation over emission reduction targets. Gull says let the science dictate how much New Zealand cuts its greenhouse gases by, and that the cost of inaction will far outweigh…
I just don't see why medicating an entire population to prevent a handful of spina bifida cases, which will only work if women eat far more bread than they do, is a good idea. It's such a grossly untargeted and unsophisticated approach. Saying 'well many…
One of the most fundamental rights at work is the right to come home at the end of the day healthy and safe. Now that work right, like so many others, has come under attack from National. NOHSAC, the National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory…
The Herald's 'Mood of the Boardroom' survey is predictable reading. Year after year, it's the same ideologues with the same outdated ideas. The bosses are happy that their boy is in power. Can't point to anything he's actually done. But love him nontheless. Still hate…
As you know, things are tough in the job market at the moment. The firm figures won't be out until later this month but unemployment has grown by probably well over 50,000 so far this year. The number of the dole has shot from 37,000 in…
You may have noticed that we've taken to offering Labour a little unsolicited comms advice of late. Irish recently told them to get some decent key lines. I asked them (as have many others) to start talking about their vision, and when they do, to keep it…
should-a.com, the site that lets you write your own parody of the upcoming referendum question, has been issued with a takedown notice by the Electoral Enrolment Centre. It's a shame that the EEC hasn't had a sense of humour about this but, more importantly, it…
New Zealanders are now the third fattest nation in the world according to a report covered in today's Christchurch Press. New Zealand faces a healthcare time-bomb as a new report ranks the country once touted for its outdoorsy, fit population as the third-fattest nation after…
Last Monday, John Key said you, the people of New Zealand, don't have the right to know why a minister in your government was sacked. We think you do have that right. And so do others. We have been told the reason from sources in…