A lot of staff were moved over from Ministry of Health at establishment along with some from the Health Promotion Agency which was disestablished and functions folded into TWO, and more recently, Te Aka Whai Ora was disestablished but functions and staff ...
Biden is the most experienced candidate in the history of the USA. Some of that is obviously that he is old so has a lot of experience, but it's not like he doesn't have a strong CV or voter base.
At least some of that is system differences - it's so easy to legislate here that cancelling the previous government's policies is nothing like as difficult as it is in the USA.
It's an aspirational point - Biden is vocally pro-union, and what he wants is a society where the working class have sufficiently decent jobs that they become the middle class i.e. an expansion of the middle class.
Stop voting for these economic vandals.
I think there was a lot more tactical voting than usual. I have no real evidence, just guesses, but the performance of the Liberal Democrats suggests that since that's their one of their main pitches in a lot of electorates.
I only looked post-Moore but going by Wikipedia, Phil Goff left school early to work in a freezing works to save up the money to go to university and worked as a union organiser after returning from his OE. Only Goff and Little were union staff, but there ...
It effectively does by having separate results by general and Maori electorate since those are separate by roll.
Barbara Edmonds.
With current housing costs, not necessarily as mortgage repayments (including interest) and rent are both exempt from GST.
Could be set up as peppercorn (or no) leaseholds, and probably a clause in the contract or legislation that gives the Crown first right of refusal on sale at a reasonably low value to avoid it being on-sold at high profits. That said, does the Crown need ...
I don't have a problem personally with giving tenants the house eventually, but would do it after 12 years of paying 25% of income as rent regardless of income (so no maximum rent) since after that, the tenant would have paid 3 year's worth of income as ...
Very Singaporean!
The Electoral Commission don't prosecute, they just refer to the police. Now that it's public, it seems difficult not to at least do that much.
Labour Party policy development has a lot of opportunities for involvement of the general membership, so we don't always get everything we want, but there's a chance to provide input and get more involved if we want to be.
Christchurch's after hours clinic currently closes at 10pm where it used to be 24 hours. Just another symptom of difficult times.
Not sure how covert it is - the elected part of government is always angling for re-election at least for their party members if not themselves in the case of those retiring.
If the contract or employment agreement doesn't provide for severance payments, then the employer doesn't have to pay anything as long as they terminate the contract/employment in line with its provisions and applicable legislation. It's common for fixed ...
I missed this at the time, but the way the Social Security Act is worded, MSD and IRD agree the tax figure and add it on to make a gross figure from which tax is deducted to arrive at the right net figure, rather than the usual way of there being a gross ...
Add "grandparenting" (originally "grandfathering") to that list.
I certainly look forward to the return of Fair Pay Agreements under urgency before Christmas among other items.
Benefits are set net of tax based on M tax code, so tax-free thresholds have to be explicitly passed onto benefits or they don't help.
It's a Labour bill.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/10/chloe-swarbrick-elected-new-green-party-co-leader/ Congratulations to the new Green Party co-leader, Chloe Swarbrick.
Highly in favour of returning to universalism and progressive taxation over our current model of flattish taxation (when GST etc are taken into account) and targeted assistance.
It's the same debate as any government support - targeted which means some level of administrative complexity to only support the targeted group, or general which means administrative simplicity and obviously supporting more broadly than is strictly ...
TVNZ and RNZ are Crown Entity Companies, not State-Owned Enterprises. The Maori Television Service is a body corporate of no particular type (same entity type as the Reserve Bank). Having said that, RNZ and Maori TV aren't expected to return dividends, ...
I read that and broadly agree with Bradbury, but it says nothing about PSA in it - it's all about the public service, not the PSA union.
Link? I couldn't find a post about Labour's relationship with the PSA even looking at posts by author.
LVT would be accompanied by income tax cuts or more services which is designed so that discretionary income doesn't drop.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/509775/green-party-candidate-geordie-rogers-wins-wellington-city-council-by-election Wasn't looking good on the weekend but the Greens hold their seat.
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