I'll vote for any party that doesn't make me wear matching grey jumpers with the old fat, bald guy when I'm retired.
I would give anything in the world to be able to announce a retraction tomorrow saying we got it all wrong and there will be no cuts to KiwiSaver, WFF, Student loans or public services. Somehow I don't think that's going to happen though. But do you want ...
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 11:26 am, May 19th, 2011 - 54 comments
Categories: budget 2011, democratic participation, Unions
Tags: cuts
Unions and community groups don't need to wait till after the Budget is read to know they've been screwed. They're gathering today at Parliament at 12pm for a protest rally – come along if you're in town. I was talking to a union organiser today who said …
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 12:51 pm, April 30th, 2011 - 41 comments
Categories: budget 2011
Tags: cuts
The signs are clear that the Goverment is ploughing ahead with spending cuts and that Budget 2011 will contain yet more cuts to public services and still maintain tax cuts for the wealthy. Unlike Britain where they've taken an axe to public spending and …
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 10:21 am, April 7th, 2011 - 25 comments
Categories: national, privatisation, tax
Tags: hypocrisy, nice to have
The PSA is the frontline in our fight against National's plans to savagely cut our public services. Much in the same vein as the sticker campaign that Eddie posted on yesterday, the PSA has used humour to get across an incisive message: what the rich …
Here's the link to David Hall's paper http://www.psiru.org/reports/2010-10-QPS-pubspend.pdf this and a 40+ slide show are also up on the PSA's website www.psa.org.nz
Another by-election. Labour HQ must have mixed feelings about the efficacy of Pete Hodgson's dirt digging ability....
I agree with Herbert and Bill; language is important. And one of the things I had a problem with in Cunliffe's speech (as well as PPPs - when someone can show me an example of a government or community that hasn't been royally screwed with a PPP, I'll ...
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 1:45 pm, December 2nd, 2010 - 72 comments
Categories: Economy
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Given the importance of this debate, I thought I'd just lift this straight from David Cunliffe's post on Red Alert: I guess it’s all in a day’s work, but MartyG on The Standard misintrepeted my position on PPPs in this recent post. 1. His opposition to …
thanks for the clarification. they all look the same to me
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 1:37 pm, November 18th, 2010 - 31 comments
Categories: john key, Media, workers' rights
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Democracy is quietly dying in NZ but you'd never know it by the media's response. The government is rushing through a slew* of legislation under urgency and it doesn't even rate a mention in either the Herald or the DomPost (the DP devotes half a page to …
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 2:28 pm, November 17th, 2010 - 11 comments
Categories: economy, national/act government, uncategorized
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I know it's in National's DNA to fight regulation where ever they find it but it looks like the meat industry and government 'watch dog' MAF's Food Safety Authority may have bitten off more than they can chew with their proposal to do away with independent…
Rich, you're asking for a level of social networking that's beyond me, sorry!
Breaking news: Roman Polanksi expresses interest in filming in NZ. Key commits to lowering age of consent to 13.
And as feared yesterday, there was no TV coverage about the emails and whether Warners & co have been playing with a straight bat on the news tonight. I may have missed it but as far as I could tell there was no coverage at all on the hobbit dispute - ...
yeah it's not often you get to do Pollyanna. I hope you're right. I guess it'll depend on whether the MSM has got the balls to let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Certainly the union communication hasn't done their cause any great favours; they've been hard put to spell out clearly exactly what the issues are and that's made it harder for other people to come to their defense. And yes the email trail looks ...
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 9:43 pm, September 29th, 2010 - 2 comments
Categories: humour
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At the risk of following Bill's excellent post with something seriously lightweight, I just read this in the Listener and thought it was worth sharing for the pure joy of it … "Surely if anyone in the Act Party was going to impersonate a dead baby, it …
Serves Act right for getting into bed with the devil aka The Sensible Sentencing Trust. Peter Dunne did better when he got into bed with god via the Future NZ party. Although all those bright and shiny MPs didn't last very long bless 'em, and you never ...
Damn my liberal heart! I swear to god I'm starting to feel sorry for Rodney.
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 1:59 pm, September 15th, 2010 - 19 comments
Categories: national, workers' rights
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In the Today in Politics column in the DomPost there's a snippy little piece about the Fairness at Work submissions. The CTU reckons around 6000 people have made submssions against the Bill. A lot of these were made via its website. Not bad going …
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 8:10 pm, September 13th, 2010 - 8 comments
Categories: local body elections, Politics
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Obviously tired of politicians saying one thing on the campaign trail and then doing the exact opposite when they're in office (which reminds me of a a great George Bush joke ) the PSA have just launched a nice and simple website Where do you stand …
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 3:39 pm, September 3rd, 2010 - 45 comments
Categories: Economy, national/act government, public services
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Whatever flimsy and tattered remains of Labour-lite which National used to disguise itself at the 2008 election has well and truly disappeared. Thank goodness we can now call a spade a spade. National is making its priorities crystal clear to the public. …
I say 'game on' for the union movement. We already know that the sick note for one day's absence is likely to be pulled back, now there's another target in the 90 days fire at will. I'm not sure that National MPs will be too thrilled with the tail wagging ...
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 4:33 pm, August 9th, 2010 - 31 comments
Categories: Unions, workers' rights
Tags: 90 day, fairness at work, fire at will
Unions are getting together to oppose the government's changes to employment law with rallies in the four main centres. The pitch is about fairness and respect rather than buying into the far left's war on the government. Thank goodness, is all I can say, …
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 8:01 am, July 20th, 2010 - 82 comments
Categories: abortion, labour, Social issues
Tags: steve chadwick
I was talking to an old friend last night. She's been a Labour voter/supporter/activist nearly all her adult life. She lives in Rotorua. She said she might have to vote Green next year because she doesn't think she'll be able to support Steve Chadwick …
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 1:53 pm, June 2nd, 2010 - 5 comments
Categories: assets, democracy under attack, local government, national/act government, privatisation
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It's an innocuous looking bill but Rodney Hide's Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill packs a wallop when you unpick it. Not only does it open the door for the privatisation of our water services, it positively ushers it in, takes off its coat and …
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 1:58 pm, May 31st, 2010 - 18 comments
Categories: national
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WTF? Jim Bolger's mates have got together and put a half page ad (including a list of who they all are) in today's DomPost to wish him a happy birthday and to thank him for his many years of public service. While not wishing to take anything away from the…
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 6:47 pm, May 27th, 2010 - 6 comments
Categories: rumour, uncategorized
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Wellington hoteliers could be seriously screwed if the rumour I heard is true. Seems that negotiations are underway to allow Wellington Airport stay open all night (last flights now are about 9pm) during the World Cup so that fans can travel direct to the …
"On a deeper level, this is the capitalists' old trick of turning working people against each other. The Nats set us fighting among ourselves, bitching about benefits and competing against each other for jobs which brings our wages down." And the Dominion ...
I say National should go ahead and try and mine Great Barrier Island. The entertainment vaule would be priceless. How are they going to ship in all that heavy equipment for a start? There's no deep-water harbour. But the thing that would be really worth ...
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