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A schools league table that we need

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:09 am, September 4th, 2015 - 15 comments

The Nats have created the (spurious) data for school “league tables” so that parents can be fully informed and make choices, so they tell us. But it seems that parents don’t deserve to be fully informed about the dangerous physical health of schools. That would be just too inconvenient.

Tom Scott on housing

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:48 am, August 28th, 2015 - 20 comments

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TPP and the Pharmac reality

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:37 am, August 18th, 2015 - 34 comments

Key glibly says that the government will meet increased costs for medicine under the TPPP, but the reality for Pharmac is that its budget is already squeezed. If the TPP goes ahead Key’s promise will quickly be “forgotten”.

Let’s Lynch the Landlord

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 9:45 am, August 3rd, 2015 - 53 comments

As The Standard said at the time, the Government’s decision to destroy Relationships Aotearoa could be a colossal stuff up. And this morning we learn that a Canterbury landlord has allowed access to the sensitive files left behind when RA closed. Anne Tolley must act or Anne Tolley must go.

Then they came for the Health Boards

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:26 am, July 27th, 2015 - 79 comments

It appears that the Government has a radical proposal to undermine democratic participation in our Health Boards. Although the Minister claims not to know about it.

Gutting Southern health care is wrong

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:29 am, July 17th, 2015 - 75 comments

“Southern DHB commissioner called in to cut costs gets pay increase – to $1400 a day” – but that’s not the interesting bit…

A win on rental standards

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:56 pm, July 9th, 2015 - 105 comments

This is a good example of a policy win from opposition. More please!

Christchurch needs blankets

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:51 am, July 8th, 2015 - 96 comments

A Christchurch blanket bank has run out of blankets, in this the “seventh year of the brighter future”…

Another disease of poverty making a comeback

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:18 am, June 30th, 2015 - 139 comments

Add another disease of poverty to the list of those that are making a comeback in NZ.

Sacrificing mental health to dragons

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 10:00 am, June 26th, 2015 - 44 comments

The Labour Party has had a sneak peek at the process our government is using to pick “providers” for its mercenary social impact bonds scheme, and it’s like something off television.

Southern DHB sacked

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:36 pm, June 17th, 2015 - 53 comments

Southern DHB sacked – scapegoats for systematic underfunding of the health sector.

Costly government

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 3:00 pm, June 14th, 2015 - 43 comments

This is the true irony of National governments. Their entire platform is one of “fiscal responsibility” and “good economic management” yet time and time again they spend money the way I did when I was a teenager: false economies and short-term wish fulfilment.

The Responsibilities of Government

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 9:00 am, June 14th, 2015 - 45 comments

The death of Emma-Lita Bourne is not just a personal tragedy for the family: it is an event that should make New Zealand angry with the powerful people in our society who control the purse strings. They are responsible for condemning thousands of children to life-threatening conditions. And they are doing it in our name!

Heartless government

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 3:00 pm, June 13th, 2015 - 123 comments

A few stories of recent weeks which show exactly what kind of government we have.

Nick Smith on housing then and now

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:02 am, June 11th, 2015 - 66 comments

In 2013 Nick Smith promised an effective housing WOF. Yesterday he said “People dying in winter of pneumonia and other illnesses is not new.” Has National ever kept a constructive sounding social policy promise?

Another death linked to cold state house

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 5:03 pm, June 9th, 2015 - 127 comments

This should not be happening in New Zealand.

NRT: Half-measures on housing quality

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:00 pm, June 9th, 2015 - 71 comments

I/S at No Right Turn: “Any improvement is better than what we’ve got now .. At the same time, we should recognise that this is pathetically weak.”

De Boni on privatising mental health

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:38 am, June 5th, 2015 - 26 comments

A superb piece by Dita De Boni on the Nats’ plans to privatise mental health. See also (and sign!) Labour’s open letter opposing the “social bonds” scheme.

Death by damp house

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:36 pm, June 4th, 2015 - 167 comments

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The stupidest idea this Government has had yet

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:15 am, June 1st, 2015 - 92 comments

One News has reported that the Government is on the verge of introducing Social Bonds whereby investors in social services will be rewarded if targets are met.

Shame shame shame

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:12 am, March 19th, 2015 - 206 comments

Last night in Parliament National voted down Harawira / Turei’s Feed the Kids Bill, David Shearer’s Food in Schools Bill, and Phil Twyford’s Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill.

All the best Helen Kelly

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:26 am, February 26th, 2015 - 49 comments

“The head of the Council of Trade Unions has confirmed she has lung cancer.”

Salvation Army – State of the Nation

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:42 am, February 11th, 2015 - 18 comments

This morning the Salvation Army released their state of the nation report – A Mountain All Can Climb. It is mixed news, and most coverage has focused on the impact of the housing crisis.

No quick fix for diseases of poverty

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:23 am, January 16th, 2015 - 136 comments

The continued rise of rheumatic fever is an indictment of our society.

New figures show that there is no quick fix for diseases of poverty.

Your move, National.

Local Bodies: Neoliberal Economics Limits Food Choice in Southland

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:54 am, January 10th, 2015 - 62 comments

bsprout on the Local Bodies blog, provides a case study, specific to Southland. At the same time, it outlines a more general pattern that can be seen in many places, each with their own local circumstances.

A Punitive Climate of Fear

Written By: tracey - Date published: 1:59 pm, January 9th, 2015 - 64 comments

Whatever the reason for a person’s disability if it is to such an extent that they cannot work we condemn them to a life of subsistence living with a big pay rise when, and if, they reach retirement age to 65% of the average wage!

Power poverty on the up

Written By: karol - Date published: 8:18 am, December 19th, 2014 - 56 comments

The government has failed to tackle NZ’s on-going housing crisis. Fuel/energy poverty is increasing, with a higher proportion of households unable to afford any heating. More Kiwis are renting than in the 2006 census, & more Aucklanders live in over-crowded households.

‘Ditch the [misleading] rhetoric’

Written By: karol - Date published: 9:39 am, December 12th, 2014 - 16 comments

On RNZ this morning PSA National Secretary Richard Wagstaff criticised Bill English for his misleading rhetoric about rises in “average wages”. NZ’s income and wealth gaps have increased in recent decades. The lowest income remain low; the top earners get big salary increases.