I haven't seen anyone suggest that MPs control their own pay. The criticism is whether MPs need that degree of pay rise during a cost of living crisis when so many people are living in poverty. The specific critique of Hipkins is that as the leader of the ...
so we've always existed? I find this strangely comforting.
I don't know. You could be right. But it seems odd that National would be doing this if it didn't save them money. And that MSM wouldn't have checked. I'm guessing they're using different data than you. You could look on the MSD website?
then there is this (Feb 2024 RNZ), National set out its fiscal plan during the election, including a move to reverse a change brought in by Labour to link main benefit increases to average increases in wages. Wage growth has typically increased faster than...
have a look at this and see what you think, https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/main-benefits-increase-line-wages
I encourage you to poll other Standardistas and ask them if they would be ok with the government deciding their wage growth over the next 3 years was held back. Hell, ask your right wing mates. I already pointed out that National will probably suppress ...
you know the dole is deliberately set below the poverty line, right?
yes, you are right, silly me, people living in poverty all have fixed rental housing costs and aren't affected by the cost of living crisis, but wealthy people are hard done by because their mortgage is too big and they might have to downsize if they've ...
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 how I understand it, feel free to prove me wrong, but I don’t see...
hahaha.
Yes, I know it's independent. And I'm sure they have a good process relative to people in that income bracket. That doesn't explain why someone earning $164,000 needs a pay rise of $16,000 over 3 years, while benefits are being cut or people can't afford ...
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? To point out the bleeding obvious, if you've been earning over a hundred grand a year, your ability to survive a cost...
their mistake is that they think they are unphased, but it would still send them mad. as an aside, how do we know the universe came into being, rather than always ebing in existence?
how does this pay rise compare to what other sectors are getting? Didn't NACTF decide to tie benefits to inflation rather than wage growth? (that's a benefit cut, btw). Doesn't this government support wage suppression?
Overconfident dudes just before looking into the Total Perspective Vortex.
what pay cut is the public service getting? what does the increase in public service have to do with this? MPs are different than other public servants. They're elected representatives with a duty to run the country for the good of all.
got a tl;dr synopsis?
this is disappointing from the Greens too, Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson admitted she was uncomfortable getting the pay increase amid a climate of rising rents and the loss of half-price bus fares. "There are other things we could be doing to make ...
nah, National wouldn't do that, they're just firing a shitload of people. The ones that get to keep their jobs will get a tax cut I guess, joy joy
Chris Hipkins’ response is disappointing. He has said that Ardern was wrong in intervening. He has been quoted as saying: “I do think it was a mistake, I think we should just leave it to the process and MPs should stay out of it.” Imagine saying the same ...
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someone knowledgeable about firearms who can confirm their rifles were being used for sniping rather than scoping. The threads I was watching were saying things like the rifles weren't usable as a firearm. Even if they were just scoping, it's still an ...
sure, but I was hoping someone had fact checked it by now.
which Bishop and what idea? Google isn't being much help.
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:10 am, April 30th, 2024 - 5 comments
Categories: climate change
Tags: bill mckibben, climate communication
Hands down, this is one of the best pieces of climate communication I have ever seen. Environmentalist and journalist Bill McKibben nails it in two minutes. Transcript below, but the video is better. https://twitter.com/briefbutspectac/status/…
I'm not saying Shaw is right on this, but I think his point was valid. It would have caused a big ruckus in the party though.
I just relistened to that bit in the interview. The question from Tame was what policy could the Greens have stopped? And a bit later, Shaw himself poses the question as what if the Greens could have blocked ACT/NZF from government. Last year I would have ...
anyone else having problems getting twitter to load?
thanks, I hadn't seen that list before. It has a couple of useful links in it to other lists too. I have a feeling there might be an Australian academics website for anonymous stories. And that's just the academics. The others like Fair Cop, and what ...
it will rock the entire parliament https://twitter.com/MaikiSherman/status/1784779696590512433 I don't think it will. Got me hooked though, lol.
I really wish someone had kept a running list of all the cases.
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