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Jobs and wages
Written By: - Date published: 8:46 am, February 6th, 2016 - 54 comments
Boring stuff about boring old jobs and wages.
20,000 protesters – 0 arrests
Written By: - Date published: 7:03 am, February 5th, 2016 - 230 comments
Despite the travesty inside SkyCity, what was happening outside was in many respects a democratic nation at its finest.
Waitangi: Chicken John Plucks Off
Written By: - Date published: 4:57 pm, February 4th, 2016 - 161 comments
The coward John Key will not now be going to Waitangi. He’s far too scared to find out directly how his sovereignty sell out has been received by Kiwis.
The TPPA day of shame
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, February 4th, 2016 - 224 comments
Undated: The TPPA has now been signed, but not ratified, and not (hello NZ Herald!) “passed in to law”. There have been widespread protests throughout Auckland.
RNZ had live coverage with John Campbell.
So, how would you spend $1.2B per year?
Written By: - Date published: 3:23 pm, February 1st, 2016 - 84 comments
A Kiwi Kids allowance for all under fives, with totally fee free public primary and secondary schools.
Anyone seen the rockstar economy lately?
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, January 28th, 2016 - 56 comments
Record debt, a higher than expected deficit and a credit rating downgrade on our economic outlook. All thanks to National’s genius economic management!
Key deserved boos for his TPP lies at Ratana
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, January 25th, 2016 - 114 comments
Key’s “strident” defence of the TPP was booed at Ratana yesterday. With good reason, because his glib assurance that “Not a single part of TPP cuts across the Treaty of Waitangi” is yet another Key lie.
TPPA don’t sign speaker tour details
Written By: - Date published: 7:48 pm, January 21st, 2016 - 92 comments
Professor Jane Kelsey and Lori Wallach are speaking in the main cities next week about the repercussions of New Zealand entering into the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.
Stay Classy: TV3’s Newshrub.
Written By: - Date published: 12:51 pm, January 21st, 2016 - 32 comments
TV3 have announced they are getting out of the news business and getting into cross platform media hotdesking across the continuum of diminishing eyeballs. Welcome to TV3 Newshrub, the place where no news is good news!
Another attempt to minimise the significance of poverty
Written By: - Date published: 7:06 am, January 21st, 2016 - 165 comments
A piece yesterday foreshadows a report on poverty from right-wing lobby group “The New Zealand Initiative”. It’s (surprise!) another attempt to minimise the significance of poverty in NZ – and it’s another big distraction…
Rightwing populism is the new normal – Gary Younge
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, January 20th, 2016 - 10 comments
Gary Younge is a feature columnist with the Guardian. In this film he explains why the Trump phenomenon is a symptom of current societal change.
62 vs 3.6 Billion
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, January 19th, 2016 - 155 comments
Ever widening inequality generates ever more astonishing statistics – suck up economics in action. The super-rich are laughing all the way to the bank.
What to do about poverty (and a suggestion to the media)
Written By: - Date published: 10:25 am, January 16th, 2016 - 43 comments
An excellent piece on poverty by Lizzie Marvelly in The Herald this morning poses a question to which we already know the answer. (Plus some bonus rambling on the media.)
TPP circus rolls on
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, January 14th, 2016 - 203 comments
The new year begins much as the old one ended, with secrets, evasions and dissent over the TPP and what it means for NZ.
Boots Theory: Move left to win? Move left to win!
Written By: - Date published: 11:46 am, January 13th, 2016 - 77 comments
Boots Theory on the American Working Families Charter, how they are trying to move the Democratic Party to the left, and possible lessons for New Zealand.
National’s vision for New Zealand’s future
Written By: - Date published: 11:28 am, January 12th, 2016 - 94 comments
Stephen Joyce has had published an opinion piece in this morning’s Herald which extolls the virtue of free trade and ignores the pitfalls. Such as those shown this week when TransCanada sued the US Government for rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline contract.
Why are we working so hard?
Written By: - Date published: 11:42 am, January 10th, 2016 - 46 comments
A recent New Matilda article discusses why at a time of increasing productivity the need to work has increased and not decreased.
The myth of drug dependancy and poverty
Written By: - Date published: 10:39 am, January 2nd, 2016 - 306 comments
New research from Morgan Foundation suggests that poverty can be alleviated by increasing incomes and that the beneficiaries will be children of poor families not vendors of alcohol and cigarettes.
Guest Post: Employment and Unemployment
Written By: - Date published: 9:04 am, December 26th, 2015 - 49 comments
Incognito on the meaning of work and unemployment at a time of increasing change.
On the twelfth day of Christmas AFFCO gave two of its workers …
Written By: - Date published: 7:29 am, December 24th, 2015 - 189 comments
AFFCO clearly lacks any sense of a christmas spirit when dealing with its workers.
Summer break
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, December 19th, 2015 - 46 comments
Standardista authors are on summer break! There will be an Open Mike each day, but little or no other posting (unless an author feels particularly inspired). Here’s some summer reading suggestions – by all means add your own…
Child poverty has been monitored – now what?
Written By: - Date published: 7:05 am, December 18th, 2015 - 104 comments
A guest post from McFlock on what we might do about poverty when the talking’s done.
Key is blaming child poverty on – wait for it – – drugs!
Written By: - Date published: 12:30 pm, December 16th, 2015 - 206 comments
John Key has tried to deflect from his government’s appalling record on child poverty with some throw-away nonsense about drugs. There are just three teeny tiny problems with that line…
Obesity is a structural problem
Written By: - Date published: 9:20 am, December 16th, 2015 - 59 comments
Structural problems need structural solutions. Progress on this major public health issue has been set back by a decade because we elected a useless National government.
Child poverty – it’s not choice
Written By: - Date published: 10:35 am, December 15th, 2015 - 172 comments
The mantra of ‘Poor Choices’
Written By: - Date published: 1:45 pm, December 12th, 2015 - 195 comments
It is that time of year when poor people realise just how poor they really are – the season for giving, the season to be jolly. Well that may be so for some of us, but some people will be working on Christmas day instead of spending time with loved ones. These will probably be […]
Flagpole Sitta
Written By: - Date published: 5:56 pm, December 11th, 2015 - 138 comments
John Key’s $26 million dollar flag flop bores it’s way to the halfway line tonight. The first referendum closes at 7 PM, first results at around 8.30. $26 million … that’s a lot of cancer drugs, child care centres and elder care we won’t be getting because the PM wants a signature legacy his dreary leadership doesn’t actually deserve.
The great future tide of homelessness
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, December 3rd, 2015 - 156 comments
The Salvation Army, and not the Government, has pointed out some very worrying trends relating to home ownership in New Zealand.
Jarrod Gilbert is tilting at windmills
Written By: - Date published: 7:33 am, November 27th, 2015 - 38 comments
The Official Information Act is now moribund and access to information beyond its scope is granted only to a chosen few and under strict conditions.
Standing in the Shadow of the Red Flag
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, November 25th, 2015 - 47 comments
“Why would Goff stand for the Auckland mayoralty as an independent candidate considering his life-long commitment to the Labour Party?”
Why indeed?
Is it time for Labour to stand candidates in local elections under the party banner? And can the party lift its profile and its general election prospects by being bolder in the provinces?
Rashbrooke on inequality
Written By: - Date published: 9:40 am, November 24th, 2015 - 22 comments
Max Rashbrooke has another excellent piece in The Guardian, on inequality and on the ways he has been attacked for his writings on this issue.
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