Rio Tinto probably the number one resource extraction stand-over merchant worldwide. Our Labour government has four years to get our country into a position where we can tell them to get lost, and don't come back.
There is a tale re-told about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after an audience with a group of ordinary citizens seeking relief during the Great Depression, saying: "I agree with you. Now go out there and make me do it." We can all write our own wish...
Nothing more than you'd expect from a hard-line anti-union representative of the corporate class. Stewart McCrotchrot is a Tory administrator who can be relied on to brush inconvenient truths under his plush carpet. He's up for a night-hood next time ...
Postal voting was touted as likely to reverse the ever-decreasing turn-out in local government elections. It hasn't done that. Turnout is low because a majority of working people have concluded that voting for local government will achieve no change to ...
We do want a central and local government which serves the people, And even more, enables the people to serve themselves as much as practicable. This can't happen in 5 minutes, but the way could be opened to facilitate local citizen power over areas of ...
Gotta keep in mind that the Trumpeters are there to action the world dominance fantasies of that section of the US capitalist class. Simple. Like a school-yard bully, Trump and his fan club want to slap any serious opposition, be it China, North Korea, ...
Recall the persistent international pressure (read USA) to demolish the state monopoly system pre-exisiting. This consisted of regional Coop Dairy Companies owned by farmers coordinated by the NZ Dairy Board owned by the Crown. The Dairy Board also ...
All the evidence from the twentieth century tends to show that poverty is reduced in direct proportion to public services delivered to everyone as needed with no cost (or administered pricing) at the point of need. Such as: Universal free medical care ...
Greg's got an impecable Labour pedigree; he's worked hard for Labour out here in the West for a long time. He's an all round good bloke with a wide experience of local issues. He's a proven vote winner in local elections. What's not to like. Deborah's got ...
While the elites are worried about Brexit, the masses are worried about breakfast. Whoever acknowledges that will garner support from ordinary working people.
Answer to your question Bryan? Almost certainly the same route as Rogernomics, Ruthanasia, or indeed the half-hearted social policies of the Clark/Cullen government - via a neo-liberal conduit from either the UK or the Good old USA. The NZ leadership ...
The Talleys have always operated as if they were in Mississippi or Alabama. With the Northland by-election coming up we need to link the political campaign against this National government with the solidarity of meat workers at Affco Talley's Moerewa plant...
Good on you Lynn for your continuing materialist analysis of one of the mainstays of our agricultural economy. Selling products of the land and sea, in one form or another, earns much of our foreign exchange - which we can either invest to improve ...
When I first flew into New Zealand in mid 1967, the country had had at that time 7 continuous years of National government and was fated to go on to 5 more. Then there was 3 years of Kirk/Rowling followed by 9 years of Muldoon ending in 1984 which started ...
Has anybody noticed any of the mainstream media quizzing Mobie about their assertion that increasing the minimum wage towards a living wage will jeopardise jobs? If Mobie have evidence to back their claims they should be encouraged to produce it. Fifty ...
Some time last year I think it was, I was able to attend a discussion with Phil Goff and "Young Labour". At the end of the questions from Young Labour I asked Phil whether there was any justification for increasing our exports merely in order to spend the ...
Forget 'strategic' and think about 'principled'. I can recall Kelvin Davis addressing a rally of prison officer unionists in Kaikohe who were protesting about the privatisation of prisons. He spoke well: clearly Labour and principled. Went down well with a...
Maintaining safe practices and refusing to cut corners can cost you your job. Every worker knows this. In a world of chronic high unemployment, it takes a brave or desperate worker to jack-up and refuse unsafe work. However, history on 5 continents shows ...
Bang on regarding the politics of the 'NZ dairy export economy'. Reminds me of the National party in government during the 1970's when Holyoake and then Muldoon rode the sheep industry and its rural seats into the ground after Britain joined the Common ...
Steven Joyce is describing members of Parliament who oppose the government's policy on asset sales as 'communists' and their actions as 'sabotage'. This is extreme language - trying to demonise another group of loyal dissidents. I feel sorry for S. Joyce ...
... increases. So just how is Steve Joyce proposing to help workers...
Maybe it's just me, but I believe in democracy and I can't view the General Election as a horse race or sporting contest, to be won or lost. I won't prejudge how the electors will cast their ballot as far away as 12 months from now. If Labour has the ...
We need to remind fellow kiwis today why previous generations revered Michael Joseph Savage, the first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand. I believe that a lot of the Savage Labour government's caring political policies got extra impetus from his ...
Much of New Zealand's domestic insurance industry is now owned by IAG through taking over various NZ companies, including the former mutual, AMI. Most of these companies have decided to arbitrarily change their polices to nominated sum from the previous ...
Thanks, David Shearer, for your high personal standards and your unselfish hard work. We still need you on that front bench and eventually in Cabinet. As Minister of Foreign Affairs you will do Aotearoa/New Zealand proud. I look forward to hearing and ...
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