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 ...
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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