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Metiria Turei’s legacy

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:27 am, September 26th, 2017 - 59 comments

What she did wasn’t a mistake.

The failure of TOP’s Youth UBI policy

Written By: weka - Date published: 9:48 am, September 19th, 2017 - 97 comments

Safety nets should be for all people and the best way to ensure that is to design them for social need not as economic tools. Despite Gareth Morgan’s assertion that policy is everything, The Opportunities Party has managed to create a youth policy that is discriminatory.

Rally Against Poverty – join Metiria Turei and Marama Davidson

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:25 am, September 16th, 2017 - 20 comments

Saturday 16 Sept 2.30pm, Otara Town Centre, South Auckland. Let’s all come together to rally for our communities that have been at the forefront on the fight to end poverty.

Create WINZ as it should be

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, September 14th, 2017 - 13 comments

Auckland event on Sunday – if you have ideas about how to #FIXWINZ you are invited to come along.

Plant trees, love NZ: the Greens’ bold Climate Protection Plan

Written By: weka - Date published: 8:00 am, September 11th, 2017 - 67 comments

The Greens have a comprehensive, detailed plan for NZ on what to do about climate change that works through transforming the economy, ending poverty, and protecting the environment.

Underpaying beneficiaries

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:26 am, September 10th, 2017 - 28 comments

Beneficiaries are not getting the support that they are entitled to. NZ is beset by rising poverty, its associated diseases, homelessness, and suicide. I wonder if these facts could possibly be related?

To REALLY help drug addicts

Written By: tracey - Date published: 2:12 pm, September 7th, 2017 - 36 comments

This government will know that 50,000 people already want help with drug addiction but cannot get it. They have had 9 years to give a shit. This “bash the beneficiary drug addict” is a ridiculous response to a real, and growing, health problem.

Excitement mounting for Part 2 of Audrey Young’s analysis of Parties financial promises

Written By: tracey - Date published: 5:03 pm, September 6th, 2017 - 20 comments

After the first in her series of articles inviting a bank economist to analyse and comment upon Labour’s spending promises, tomorrow she turns to the second in the series with a close analysis of National’s promises.

Speaking of mothers

Written By: weka - Date published: 1:28 pm, September 5th, 2017 - 31 comments

There’s a direct relationship between how badly we treat mothers and how much we exalt neoliberalism.

Outsourcing Compassion

Written By: tracey - Date published: 3:41 pm, September 1st, 2017 - 58 comments

They starve and freeze and rot among themselves, but they beg, steal and rob among their betters.

Dear Winston.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 11:28 am, August 30th, 2017 - 135 comments

How many of these did you receive over your 7 years of over-payments?

WINZ and Super Scandals

Written By: Bill - Date published: 11:40 am, August 28th, 2017 - 138 comments

Here’s the scandal.

Giovanni Tiso: Speaking Power to the Truth – The Political Assassination of Metiria Turei

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:03 am, August 22nd, 2017 - 116 comments

Giovanni Tiso writes on New Zealand media and the swimming of sharks.

A “Culture of Entitlement”?

Written By: KJT - Date published: 3:39 pm, August 17th, 2017 - 48 comments

With the current dialog about welfare, It is time to look at the people who are the real beneficiaries, of the welfare system.

Who use the educated and healthy workforce our system provides

The people who say “everyone should stand on their own two feet”, “you don’t work you don’t eat”, and “take personal responsibility”,

The business sector.

This is life on a benefit for ill and disabled people

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:13 am, August 16th, 2017 - 68 comments

A must read Guest Post for anyone thinking about poverty and welfare this election – a former social scientist turned welfare beneficiary speaks out on WINZ’s state-sponsored neglect of more than 84,000 long-term disabled New Zealanders.

Labour’s policies

Written By: advantage - Date published: 10:44 am, August 15th, 2017 - 65 comments

A list of Labour’s announced policies to date and an easy way to compare them to other parties’ policies.

Brutal

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:35 am, August 14th, 2017 - 157 comments

Punitive welfare settles into a new low.

Do you?

Written By: Bill - Date published: 9:00 am, August 11th, 2017 - 69 comments

In the interests of keeping it simple, an obvious fact or two and a basic proposition.

Green MP Marama Davidson on keeping the faith

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:45 am, August 10th, 2017 - 89 comments

“We will not forget the thousands of you who came to us with your stories of hardship”

NACT

Written By: KJT - Date published: 9:43 am, August 9th, 2017 - 5 comments

“Here’s a new idea for the Tories: Why not ask a simple question every time you propose a course of action: Is this morally just?”

Real and poor

Written By: weka - Date published: 8:12 am, August 9th, 2017 - 27 comments

It’s time to hear what poor people have to say about being poor.

James Shaw: “I completely support what Metiria has done”

Written By: weka - Date published: 8:42 am, August 8th, 2017 - 276 comments

Shaw in his own words on where the party is at.

Messages for the Left

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 6:59 am, August 6th, 2017 - 106 comments

Kōrero Pono writes about the class divide within the parliamentary Left and the importance of the wider Left’s message in this election.

Gower on Turei’s sacrifice

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:02 am, August 5th, 2017 - 46 comments

Consider the sharp contrast between the lies and dirty politics that the Nats have brazened out in the last 9 years and the way that Metiria Turei fronted up and took responsibility for decades old youthful mistakes. Gower is right that it has headed off the Nats’ attack lines and they will be fuming.

I too, am not resigning

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:29 am, August 5th, 2017 - 210 comments

“there’s one standard for women who were fighting their way out of poverty and another for rich people who know they won’t really get called to account for their own personal histories so long as everyone involved keeps quiet.”

Pencilsword: Greed vs Need

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:15 am, August 5th, 2017 - 10 comments

Toby Morris explores the differences in how tax fraud and benefit fraud are dealt with, and asks where our sympathies should be.

Metiria Turei will not seek ministerial position

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:14 pm, August 4th, 2017 - 176 comments

At a noon press conference Metiria Turei announced that she is not resigning and will continue to lead the Greens, but she is not seeking a ministerial position in a new government. She takes responsibility for her past, but the work on a fair welfare system is more important than any one person.

This is why we need the Greens in government

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:15 am, August 4th, 2017 - 247 comments

Metiria Turei speaks from the heart about how hard it is to be on welfare, and the need for a more compassionate, caring welfare system.

Raging at Metiria is not about the fraud – it’s that she sided with the lepers

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:01 am, July 27th, 2017 - 324 comments

Graham Cameron cuts through the obsession over fraud to the cultural values of the last 30 years and the fear beneath.

Beneficiary reduction targets, homelessness and suicide

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:01 am, July 26th, 2017 - 41 comments

Most people would be shocked to learn that each WINZ case manager is assigned the target of getting a certain number of people off the benefit every month. This is one of the reasons why we have such a punitive and aggressive welfare system. Fewer than half of those removed from the benefit go to jobs. The Nats neither know nor care what happens to the rest, but links to the rising number of homeless and our shocking suicide statistics should be investigated.