The worst Finance Minister ever?
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Date published: 10:22 am, May 13th, 2025 - 69 comments
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Future historians may consider Nicola Willis to be the country’s worst Finance Minister, even worse than Rob Muldoon and Ruth Richardson.
Daily review 14/05/2025
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 14th, 2025 - 7 comments
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Open mike 14/05/2025
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Daily review 13/05/2025
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Open mike 13/05/2025
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Daily review 12/05/2025
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We’ve Lost Australia
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 12th, 2025 - 39 comments
New Zealand was once in a sustained Australasian partnership. Now, with New Zealand tracking further and further into policy extremes, Australia – and our children – are leaving New Zealand behind.
Open mike 12/05/2025
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Get ready for the Regulatory Standards Bill
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Date published: 10:47 am, May 11th, 2025 - 21 comments
Following on from the undermining under urgency of the current Pay Equity scheme the Government intends to introduce the Regulatory Standards Bill which if passed would have a significant adverse effect on collective rights and environmental action.
Open mike 11/05/2025
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Rock and a hard place: the under 16 social media ban
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Date published: 11:19 am, May 10th, 2025 - 50 comments
Given the complexities and conflict over privacy, can MPs be trusted to design a good law?
The beginning of the end
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Date published: 10:13 am, May 10th, 2025 - 58 comments
When the history of the sixth National Government is written I am confident that the events of this week when the Pay Equity system was smashed up will be described as the the beginning of the end.
Open mike 10/05/2025
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Daily review 09/05/2025
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Open mike 09/05/2025
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Daily review 08/05/2025
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Vale David Parker MP
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Date published: 2:08 pm, May 8th, 2025 - 20 comments
David Parker’s Deputy Leader ‘s speech in 2014 at the Wellington Labour Party Conference was the best I ever heard from a Labour Leader. Vision matched values in intensity and scope. Parliament now loses one of its very best.
It’s Time — To Fight.
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Date published: 8:03 am, May 8th, 2025 - 18 comments
Pay Equity Amendment Bill passes through all stages under urgency late last night, destroying decades of progress and putting men and women alike back.
Open mike 08/05/2025
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Daily review 07/05/2025
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Lies damned lies and Pay Equity Repeal excuses
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Date published: 9:27 am, May 7th, 2025 - 27 comments
Christopher Luxon yesterday tried to claim that budgetary considerations were not the reason for repealing the Pay Equity Legislation even though David Seymour had said that the monetary savings from the bill would save the Budget.
Open mike 07/05/2025
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Daily review 06/05/2025
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National wants to make voting harder
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Date published: 1:35 pm, May 6th, 2025 - 9 comments
National’s recent announcement that it will take away voting rights from all prisoners may be nothing more than a distraction from its real intent, screwing the electoral scrum by making it harder to vote for some of us.
Dark day for women as Government slams brakes on pay equity to save money
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Date published: 12:18 pm, May 6th, 2025 - 44 comments
The Government’s proposed changes to the Equal Pay Act will severely limit people in female-dominated professions to be paid fairly. The Government’s changes today are a dark day for New Zealand women as the Government says it will repeal the pay equity law and extinguish 33 existing claims in a constitutional overreach. Protest at Parliament today 1pm
Open mike 06/05/2025
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Daily review 05/05/2025
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Open mike 05/05/2025
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The Ukraine-United States Deal
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Date published: 11:55 am, May 4th, 2025 - 13 comments
In a bargain of the damned the United States and Ukraine have signed a peace agreement to share revenues from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths.
Coalition definitively rejected in Aussie
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Date published: 10:36 am, May 4th, 2025 - 9 comments
The defining characteristic of the 2025 Federal election in Australia to me is that the Dutton model of vague way down in the future policies, and grumpy grievance now policies was soundly rejected. The voting of preferences is ongoing. But Labour has already up a sound majority in the lower house. It also looks like it will be in a much better position in the Senate – but not a majority.
Labor Wins In Australia
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Date published: 8:18 am, May 4th, 2025 - 39 comments
In yesterday’s election there was lot to cheer about. Labor won a landslide election. And Coalition leader Peter Dutton lost his seat.
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The Government’s plans to limit the powers and scope of the Waitangi Tribunal is a disgrace. ...5 days ago
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- Release: Cuts to beds for seniors at Dunedin Hospital
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- Release: Labour backs workers while Govt cuts jobs and protections
This May Day Labour is standing with workers to defend decent jobs and fair pay. ...2 weeks ago
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- Changes to improve pay equity process
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- Boosting high-tech exports with advanced technology
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- Post-Cabinet Press Conference: Monday 5 May 2025
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- Parent Portal launched to empower parents
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- New helicopters a commitment to global security
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- Prime Minister congratulates Albanese and Wong
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- Attendance dashboard shows early insights into term 2
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- New air ambulance helicopter for Auckland and Northland
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- Oranga Tamariki showing clear progress on key performance targets
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- New Member appointed to Waitangi Tribunal
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- Developing a new Action Plan for unpaid carers
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- Deputy PM concludes constructive visit to New Caledonia
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- Rural Health Roadshow coming to Wairoa
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- Advancing Antarctic research on climate change impacts
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- New tools to help women navigate online harm
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- New Public Research Organisation Boards Dominated By Men
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- RNZ obtains two OIAs – one redacted, one not
Analysis: What official documents should be shown to the public? It might depend on which part of government you ask. ...4 hours ago
- Young detainees often have poor mental health. The earlier they’re incarcerated, the worse it gets
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emaediong I. Akpanekpo, PhD Candidate, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Populist rhetoric targeting young offenders often leads to kneejerk punitive responses, such as stricter bail laws and lowering the age of criminal responsibility. This, in turn, has led to more young ...4 hours ago
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RNZ Pacific An escape of a 13-year-old girl from a hostage crisis on the border of Papua New Guinea’s Western and Hela provinces has boosted hopes for the rescue of her fellow captives. The group of 10 people was taken captive early on Monday morning at Adujmari. PNG Police Commissioner ...5 hours ago
- Political parties can recover after a devastating election loss. But the Liberals will need to think...
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- NIWA. GNS chairs, board members named for new science mergers
NIWA and GNS Science's chairs have been named to lead two of the new research institutes. ...5 hours ago
- NZ celebrates Rotuman as part of Pacific Language Week series
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- 18,000 register support for Tribunal claim against Regulatory Standards Bill
Toitū Te Tiriti, the group behind last year's Hīkoi, is leading the claim over the Regulatory Standards Bill. ...6 hours ago
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- In Indonesia, Albanese has a chance to reset a relationship held back by anxiety and misperceptions
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hangga Fathana, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) Yogyakarta Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has wasted little time taking his first overseas trip since Labor won a historic victory in Australia’s federal election. He’ll head to Indonesia today to meet ...7 hours ago
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The Green Budget, released today, reinstates funding to the public service including areas the Government has sharply cut and underfunded - primary health care, Oranga Tamariki and public housing. ...7 hours ago
- Greenpeace Slams Govt For Failure To Commit To Protecting Rivers
"People across the country are standing up for better protection for lakes, rivers, and drinking water. If the politicians won’t take action, then they should expect resistance." ...7 hours ago
- Echo Chamber: Cut it, gut it or re-up it, pay equity is ready to overshadow the budget
Last week’s biggest story is still the government’s biggest headache. Echo Chamber is The Spinoff’s dispatch from the press gallery, recapping sessions in the House. Columns are written by politics reporter Lyric Waiwiri-Smith and Wellington editor Joel MacManus. The current parliamentary sitting block has been under way for only a ...7 hours ago
- Green Party would give almost $400 weekly payment to job seekers
It is one of the announcements in the Green Party's alternative Budget ...7 hours ago
- Greens promise free doctor visits, childcare but new taxes, higher borrowing
The party's alternative Budget also includes an "income guarantee" of at least $395 a week and more government debt. ...7 hours ago
- From GPS to weather forecasts: the hidden ways Australia relies on foreign satellites
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Steer, Chair, Australian Centre for Space Governance, Australian National University Japan Meteorological Agency via Wikimedia You have probably used space at least 20 times today. Satellites let you buy a coffee with your phone, book a rideshare, navigate your way ...9 hours ago
- Is comparing librarians to fisheries officers really so ridiculous?
National has come up with some key messaging to justify why the pay equity law it once supported had to be scrapped. But how does it measure up with reality? National spent the first few days after repealing pay equity legislation blinking in the face of a category five cyclone ...9 hours ago
- 100 job losses in Flick sale: ‘Meridian bought the hedges, not the people’
Prime Energy founder speaks out on the perilous power market – and the need to rein in the gentailers The post 100 job losses in Flick sale: ‘Meridian bought the hedges, not the people’ appeared first on Newsroom. ...9 hours ago
- Using a blue inhaler alone is not enough to manage your asthma
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- The pay equity puzzle: can we compare effort, skill and risk between different industries?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Piercy, Lecturer, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Waikato Getty Images Last week’s move by the government to amend pay equity laws, using parliamentary urgency to rush the reforms through, caught opposition parties and New Zealanders off guard. ...11 hours ago
- David Seymour announces $140 million school attendance service to tackle truancy
David Seymour says the attendance service will address chronic absence. ...11 hours ago
- Crackdown on student loan defaulters steps up with border arrests and penalties
As the government chases billions in unpaid student debt, new funding has empowered Inland Revenue to get tough on debtors overseas and at home, writes Catherine McGregor in today’s extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Loan defaulters face increased enforcement Last month, ...11 hours ago
- State abuse compensation ‘band-aids for bullet wounds’, government told
The government has been told its compensation scheme for survivors of state abuse offers "band-aids for bullet wounds". ...12 hours ago
- FamilyBoost policy: $14m of $62m spent on administration costs
Of the $62 million spent so far on on National's flagship policy, just $48m has been paid out to parents, while $14m has gone towards towards running the scheme. ...13 hours ago
- A quick guide to the who, how and why of the Waitangi Tribunal review
National’s coalition agreement with NZ First promised the Waitangi Tribunal would be ‘refocused’, and now the government has announced a review. Why are we doing this, and who’s leading the mahi? At the deadest dead point of the weekly news cycle, a Friday afternoon, Māori development minister Tama Potaka announced ...13 hours ago
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