How many windows were smashed because of unemployment over the past 40 years?
In May 2023, Treasury forecast unemployment to increase to 5.3% by the end of 2024, and predicted that "150,000 people could lose their jobs in the next year". Treasury forecasts 150,000 New Zealanders to lose jobs by end of next year | Newshub We've had ...
And no business should feel that local government has to tailor driving and parking to facilitate their specific business practices. I’m not sure anyone does. But Wellington, like Auckland, is doing a terrible job at taking people along with the changes ...
Have you seen the Hansard? Doocey’s throw away line was part of the banter of the session. It is commonplace in parliament. Reacting as Genter did is not acceptable, or Parliament will turn into a circus.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/julie-anne-genter-confrontation-florist-laura-newcombe-says-being-filmed-by-mp-was-humiliating/EZMBCKZZURCPXJIRIHNWMAEFLA/ This article provides some wider context to the confrontation with the florist.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/05/julie-anne-genter-outburst-fresh-allegation-of-intimidation-surfaces-against-green-mp.html Last week, Genter stopped by and Newcombe said the pair got into a heated exchange about Genter's advocacy for the ...
You’ve taken Cinder’s comment on face value, but ignored the balance provided by others. And if someone stands over you waving papers in an obviously aggressive manner, as acknowledged by her own Gp colleagues. then yes you are the victim.
I understand your point, you may well be right. But the GP leadership have to deal with what they know as it unfolds. If they played ‘blame the victim’ it would bounce back on them.
To the comment made by Matt Doocey: In the course of the session, a number of MP's made interjections ('throw away comments') including Labour's Tangi Utikere. The comment Doocey made was not even directed at Julie Anne Genter, it was directed at Rachel ...
"Agree that the Greens leadership have mishandled this," No they haven't. Julie Anne Genter's behaviour has been criticised from across the political divide (Fresh allegations of intimidation emerge against Green MP Julie Anne Genter, Wellington florist ...
Yep. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/a-response-to-helen-clarks-criticism-of-new-zealand-foreign-policy-dr-reuben-steff/VHK4DSIOXBG6RMOEADP5PFPCEQ/
Hipkins should have sat this one out. It's not MFAT or the defence establishment he's fighting, it's that Peter's claims are not new. How Bob Carr became China's pawn (archive.is)
I've heard from others that Doocey was involved with Tavistock, but I haven't been able to find anything to confirm it. Do you have a link to confirm?
To be clear, she didn't apologise immediately. There were 'a couple of speakers' before the Speaker was recalled. Then... "Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee was eventually recalled to deal with the outburst. "I just said it is totally inappropriate," ...
@ Nic Thanks. We see things differently on some of this, but I always enjoy our conversations.
@Nic "The RBNZ is the only institution capable of issuing $NZ (on behalf of the treasury). As the only source for this money is the government and it doesn't need resources to issue them (as the RBNZ does when banks borrow, at the OCR) the government can't...
@ Nic V It’s not a ‘misleading implication’; it’s a simple explanation of how debt is funded. “In practice the NZ government denotes virtually all debt sold in $NZ which means its basically the NZ financial institutions which can purchase them.” That’s not...
@Nic "The governments borrowing was quite clearly sustainable it basically ended up owing the money to itself. " “In New Zealand, we have to go offshore to fund that debt. We go to foreign-owned banks and we go offshore to government money through selling ...
@ Nic "Obviously the government intervention in that demonstrated how to create a rapid economic recovery and demonstrates economic recessions are actually unnecessary. " The government intervention was paid for out of massive and unsustainable borrowing. ...
@Nic We have a very different approach to economic theory, which is fine - it adds to the conversation. Just a couple of responses: "The recession is being extended by National's cuts to every area and the recovery from that unnecessary recession is in no ...
"But it seems odd that National would be doing this if it didn't save them money. " I think they are betting on a return to wages running ahead of inflation, which would lead to lower benefit increases than the current policy indexing. National seem to be ...
"then there is this (Feb 2024 RNZ)," "...the latest statistics showed the consumer price index was lower than expected - at 4.7 percent - and the minister during the debate quoted the latest average wage growth figure as 5.3 percent." Where do they get ...
A brilliant summary, Phillip! But I'm curious to know whether anyone 'physically intimidated' anyone else today? Green MP Julie Anne Genter apologises for “physically intimidating” MP in Parliament. (msn.com)
Good points. The more I think about this the less I understand it
"have a look at this and see what you think," The change to indexing was announced in Budget 2019. For the 10 years to end 2018, the average annual inflation rate was 1.6%, the average annual wage growth 1.8%. Based on that history, the change in indexing ...
This is what the RA says in review-of-mps-salaries-and-allowances-2023-24.pdf (remauthority.govt.nz): "The Authority calculated the baseline salary of the ordinary MP as a multiple of the average wage. For that, Stats NZ reports published for the June ...
"At the time, which was in the period leading up to the 2020 election, wages were rising faster than inflation. However who is to say that that will always be the case? " In fact it wasn't for the past 3 years, By my calculations (https://thestandard.org....
"The reason Labour linked benefits to wage growth and the reason NACTF reversed that and linked them back to inflation is because wages under Labour were growing faster than inflation." That's not correct Weka. Using New Zealand Wage Growth (...
@Phillip ure "And funny story…taxpayers union have come up with the brightest idea for this… Saying salaries should be set before each term…and not increased every year.." In a sense that has merit. MP's know in advance exactly what they'll be earning over...
Whenever I can, I go with a friend to visit his wife in a high dependency dementia unit. W's wife 'L' is looked after by a fantastic group of care givers, who are paid a pittance. So yes your comment resonates with me, but the solutions seem beyond us.
"Did you just say that because Super has been increasing at a higher % than MP salaries, people on the dole have nothing to complain about?" I didn't read Alwyn's comment that way at all. He/she is making the point that if people make claims comparing ...
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