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Now maybe it's because I'm a bloke, but looking at this graph I couldn't help but think: wouldn't it be better to close the pay gap for women by increasing their wages rather than decreasing men's? Women's wages have actually gone up slightly since 1990 (no thanks…
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It's been a hardy annual finding of late - the pay gap between males and females is getting steadily worse. 2012 "Gender pay gap widens in New Zealand" *. 2013 "Pay gap between men and women slowly widening". 2014 "The pay gap between men and…
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Over at Kiwiblog David Farrar has criticised AUSA for not agreeing to endorse and support Pro Life Auckland in its quest to help young mothers. Apparently Pro-Life Auckland wanted to set up a fund to pay for the child care costs of solo mother students attending university…
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A number on the site from both right- and left-leaning persuasions have commented about the sustained and consistent overall policy position that New Zealand governments have taken since 1984. Whether good or bad. What if it didn’t? What if something else happened in 1984, sufficient…
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One issue that hasn't died down over the Christmas break is controversy over the TPP. News that it is to be "signed into existence" in NZ in February was leaked by South American media, denied by the Nats, and then confirmed. The date mentioned in…
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Republished with permission from Stephanie Rodgers at Boots Theory. Via my personal idol Anat Shenker-Osorio, an interesting article from The Atlantic on the Working Families Party, who are finding fascinating new ways to drag the political conversation back to the left left-of-centre vaguely non-fascist end of…
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The global sharemarkets continue to decline on the basis of poor growth figures coming out of China. And the deck of cards that is our financial system is reaching that perilous state that the respected Royal Bank of Scotland is advising its investor clients to…
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“My entire career, I’ve only really worked with the same subject matter. The trousers may change, but the actual words and subjects I’ve always chosen to write with are things to do with isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety, all of the high points of one’s…
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Steven Joyce has an opinion piece in the Herald this morning which reads a bit like a job application. Maybe he is still interested in the job of being leader when Key departs. The article neatly summarises National's proposal to create a better New Zealand which…
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From the Guardian: David Bowie has died, 18 months after being diagnosed with cancer. The 69-year-old singer’s death has been confirmed in a Facebook post from his official page: “David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer.…
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I recently read this fascinating article in New Matilda which asked why are we still working? With the advent of technological advances our need to work had been predicted to reduce. Yet the reality for most of us is that it has increased. And even though…
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This morning's Herald contains a story about an individual who has purchased eleven houses over the past five years and can now afford to play World of Warcraft all day. From the Herald: Gary Lin says he started buying houses only so he could play World…
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I am taking Cannabis Oil to manage my pain as my lung cancer takes over my body. It’s sort of as simple as that really. For some people talking about dying is confronting but actually talking about it allows us to think about how it…
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Andrew Little has made it clear that the Labour Party in Government will defy provisions in the Trans Pacific parrtnership agreement that weaken NZ's sovereignty. Interviewed on Radio NZ this morning, the Labour leader spoke out about the pisspoor negotation that has led to the…
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Ex Act Leader Jamie Whyte wrote an article yesterday for the Herald about how poverty is not a problem in New Zealand. The Wellington twitterati checked out the background and discovered an unfortunate fact. He had written basically the same thing ten years ago. About England. And…
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From Scoop: The ministers from the twelve countries who negotiated the the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will sign it in New Zealand on 4 February, a government spokesperson from Chile has confirmed.[1] The New Zealand government has made no formal announcement, despite reports that it…
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Spoiler alerts. Though with this many dumptrucks of recycled repetition poured in your lap, who cares? The music's the same, the font's the same, so yawn from get-go. It's got a trail of sickly boomer-focused nostalgia thicker than the plume of plastic bags rotating the…
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Saudi Arabia's recent behedding of 47 dissidents including a prominent Shiite Cleric has attracted world wide attention. The behaviour makes a mockery of the appointment of Saudi Arabia to chair an important United Nations Council involved in human rights oversight. And questions have been asked…
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For those who need one extra helping of anxiety-inducing risk discussion for 2016, here’s a summary of what the Eurasia Group have to say: The Middle East is the most vulnerable to a geopolitical leadership vacuum and is heading toward conflagration. There are six failed…
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