So the Minister of Health has just dismissed all members of the Board and replacing it with a Commissioner: Southern DHB Board dismissed - Commissioner appointed Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has today written to Southern DHB dismissing all members of the Board and replacing it…
Kill off Campbell Live. Drive Mihingarangi Forbes out of Maori TV. Sack a bunch of sub-editors. Then they came for the cartoonists... https://twitter.com/bryce_edwards/status/610902786943815681 https://twitter.com/danylmc/status/610903336779280385
As National's Auckland housing omnishambles spirals out of control it is of course the poor that suffer the most. There was a good summary in The Herald yesterday: Vulnerable worse off in frantic housing market Record numbers of people are sleeping rough or in cars…
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Basic common sense from the Pope on climate change. The fact that it will come across as radical, or too radical to many, is lamentable. All in all, it merely reads, to me at least, as an echo of reports and analyses that reject or…
The Nats want to turn over social problems to the private sector for profit. This account from the UK should give them pause: Welfare cuts deaths: 60,000 demand Tories reveal how many people died after being found 'fit for work The government is refusing to…
Yup, it's a knucklehead to blame: https://twitter.com/BrookSabin/status/610573014586028032 In related news... https://twitter.com/LIVENewsDesk/status/610573837999210499 Just remember, National is the party of economic credibility. Baaaaaa!
Yesterday John Key spent most of the day saying that the Crown's legal advice was sound, and that as it wanted to use the land for social housing it did not have to offer the land to Iwi under the treaty settlement reached with Ngāti Whātua and…
Just when you thought the Auckland housing fiasco couldn't get any worse: 'Ghost houses' hit Auckland renting market ... Prices are rising so fast that speculators are buying homes and refusing to rent them out, instead looking to sell them for huge profits without the…
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Well, this is downright scary. https://twitter.com/helenkellyCTU/status/610175109781811200 Whenever unionists talk about the bad employers who put profit over people's lives, the right are quick to wave it away as fear-mongering, blowing a few small examples out of proportion. Well, here are the words of a man…
Hope folk are staying away from the Wellington coastline today: Huge waves smash Wellington rubberneckers amid fears for coastal roads' survival ... More than 3m swells are forecast to continue to hit the Lyall Bay after large waves washed debris and boulders onto Moa Point…
It only seems like yesterday that John Key was forced to admit a series of assaults on a young cafe worker. It is now possible that Key has broken the law again. It is a significant offence to conspire to smuggle migrants into New Zealand…
Nick Smith's handling of Auckland's housing crisis had added pressure applied today. Ngati Whatua and Tainui have announced they will be seeking a declaration from the High Court in an attempt to clarify the nature of their right of first refusal of Crown land for housing…
Nick Smith, who Duncan Garner astutely characterised as "the cold-hearted politician", is at it again: Nick Smith defends 'affordable' homes The Building and Housing Minister is defending the use of the word "affordable" for around 200 new Auckland homes. Nick Smith has announced a third…
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