Written By: Marty G - Date published: 8:40 am, December 11th, 2009 - 79 comments
Categories: ACC, privatisation
Tags: john judge, nick smith
As expected, Nick Smith has imposed substantial ACC levy hikes on families. … his handpicked head of ACC John Judge proposed but …. His agenda is clear. Smith didn't appoint him by accident…necessary to keep our excellent ACC system healthy and sustainable, …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:43 pm, November 30th, 2009 - 21 comments
Categories: national/act government
Tags: nick smith
…of a meeting held by Nick Smith in St Heliers. Two interesting…Maori Party support, over the ACC levy hikes, and over the…sexual abuse victims. Bikers calling Smith a liar. Sexual abuse …victims calling him heartless. Smith locked positively pathetic in the…
Written By: John A - Date published: 3:38 pm, November 18th, 2009 - 16 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags:
This is Nick Smith in Parliament yesterday, replying to … Nationals ETS Bill: Hon Dr NICK SMITH: That number is a fantasyland… supposed costs of fully funding ACC. Those are fantasyland numbers too…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 10:41 am, November 12th, 2009 - 5 comments
Categories: ACC, national/act government, spin
Tags: john judge
…vid on National's distortions over ACC The clever thing National …member John Judge in charge ACC has become a propaganda …wing for National's anti-ACC rubbish. Judge and Nick Smith have created a…its agenda to privatise ACC. Right now, ACC is simply far too…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:15 pm, November 11th, 2009 - 4 comments
Categories: ACC, national/act government, spin
Tags:
…this case your and my ACC levies to promote Government political…come as no surprise that ACC is doing the Government's …on this issue. You'll remember Nick Smith turfed out Ross Wilson because…committed to the principles of ACC and the people it's supposed…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 5:26 pm, October 22nd, 2009 - 59 comments
Categories: ACC, national/act government, privatisation
Tags:
… report provided by the ACC Stocktake Group, a group… with insurers fighting claimants, ACC, and each other over …Nick Smith and Tony Ryall admitted that the supposed 'savings' from National's ACC… because they're cut from ACC. They haven't even bothered…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 2:51 pm, October 20th, 2009 - 5 comments
Categories: ACC, articles
Tags: tim hazledine
… absurd National's spin about the ACC "blowout" really is. Suppose you… history", to slightly paraphrase Dr Nick Smith on the $4.8 billion…" recorded last year by the ACC. If you think this is… there is no crisis at ACC. Nick Smith and John Judge have tried…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 12:03 pm, October 19th, 2009 - 7 comments
Categories: ACC, national/act government
Tags: nick smith
… Parker asked Nick Smith what the "whole-of-life cost to ACC of… the table Nick Smith is getting his $7 billion from (ACC annual report… in levies last year. Has Smith 'misled' the House? No. He… can be assumed that everything Smith says is a distortion and…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:23 am, October 19th, 2009 - 13 comments
Categories: ACC, privatisation
Tags:
… most enduring achievement, though, is ACC, which is based on his… he disputed claims by ACC Minister Nick Smith that levies needed to reflect… has asked Nick Smith and John Judge to explain just when ACC will…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 1:08 pm, October 17th, 2009 - 36 comments
Categories: john key, national/act government
Tags:
…limit the damage. Cabinet Minister Nick Smith is making a pig's arse…issues [gutting the ETS and ACC]. Business is squealing over the…climate change select committee and Smith failed to get the …- on side before moving on ACC…If Key isn't thinking Cabinet…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 2:22 pm, October 16th, 2009 - 16 comments
Categories: climate change
Tags: nick smith
… aghast over Nick Smith's shambolic handling of ACC and his …legislation. Climate Change Minister Nick Smith acknowledged that the committee had…he said. Meanwhile, Dr Smith would not comment on the…select committee. However, Dr Smith said he was not …
Written By: John A - Date published: 11:03 am, October 16th, 2009 - 8 comments
Categories: uncategorized
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The Herald posts this clip from Parliament entitled "Nick Smith under fire for ACC bungling". Nice catch from Darren Hughes at the end. What a shambolic lot.
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 4:11 am, October 16th, 2009 - 30 comments
Categories: ACC, Media
Tags: colin espiner
…were in government, National privatised ACC? Or National's policy to … John Judge was handpicked by Nick Smith after he fired Ross Wilson…, no one would touch ACC with a bargepole anyway National…funding is other than prepping ACC for privatisation. We don't …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 1:45 pm, October 15th, 2009 - 38 comments
Categories: ACC, privatisation
Tags:
…like it was written by Nick Smith and John Judge, so let's…busting (my source is the ACC annual report unless otherwise mentioned…about increasing public dissatisfaction with ACC by making us bear a…removes the subsidisation of their ACC bills by car owners. …
Written By: rocky - Date published: 12:00 pm, October 15th, 2009 - 14 comments
Categories: ACC, national/act government
Tags: nick smith
… the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) tabled last week shows … I have received from ACC. The question was forwarded…repeated his original answer. Nick Smith had hours before question time…'lost' billions of dollars from ACC. Making that serious an…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 5:49 am, October 14th, 2009 - 7 comments
Categories: ACC, election funding
Tags: nick smith
…into a major issue. Nick Smith knows how to do… compo? All Nick Smith has said is ACC spent $670,…in crimes and that ACC had successful rejected nine…obviously isn't much or Smith would have given us …Hint!) It's clear that Nick Smith is only kicking up …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 4:28 pm, October 13th, 2009 - 79 comments
Categories: labour
Tags: david parker, flat tax, incompetence, no right turn, phil goff
… isn't the only example. Take ACC. Nick Smith is busy manufacturing a crisis…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:00 am, October 12th, 2009 - 49 comments
Categories: ACC, privatisation
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…'making a loss' despite what Nick Smith writes and the media …less at the moment, as ACC explains: The Scheme's claim …government (Treasury) owes itself (ACC) money). ACC isn't losing money. Its …to explain to people that ACC is safe and functioning …
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 1:29 pm, October 10th, 2009 - 11 comments
Categories: ACC
Tags:
…every time Nick Smith opens his mouth about the latest ACC "blow out…8bn! As you can imagine Smith is already talking about cutting…Bollocks like "Big lift in ACC levies needed" well, that's another… truth and, unlike Blowup, Smith won't just disappear in a…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:56 am, July 8th, 2009 - 12 comments
Categories: corruption, Parliament
Tags: nick smith
…a privileges complaint was laid. Nick Smith was always a top candidate…a complaint. His handling of ACC has been ideological, error-ridden…reason he announced redundancies at ACC to the House before …hash of the attack on ACC earlier this year derailing …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 3:00 pm, April 15th, 2009 - 8 comments
Categories: budget 2009, economy, national/act government
Tags: bill english, john key, nick smith, recession
… package because of debt levels. Nick Smith has claimed we will get… downgrade if we don't slash ACC. The Black Budget that is…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 4:09 am, April 1st, 2009 - 20 comments
Categories: corruption, Parliament
Tags: richard worth
… the ACC chairman coming to the select committee and who decided Nick Smith… of Question Time and Lockwood Smith should put a stop to…
Written By: Tane - Date published: 5:49 pm, March 31st, 2009 - 13 comments
Categories: ACC, national/act government, workers' rights
Tags: nick smith, ross wilson, wayne butson
Nick Smith announced National's changes to the ACC board this afternoon. As expected… off the board, meaning ACC no longer has any worker…dump the worker reps from ACC, and that's to fundamentally …realign ACC to serve the interests …
Written By: Tane - Date published: 11:03 am, March 20th, 2009 - 41 comments
Categories: national/act government, spin
Tags: ACC, hit and run, jobs summit, Morning Report, nick smith, out of her depth, paula bennett, radio nz
… PR, as we saw from Nick Smith with ACC last week, is that…
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 3:29 pm, March 15th, 2009 - 17 comments
Categories: same old national
Tags:
…Nick Smith. Not only is he stuck peddling long-disproved lies about ACC… it so far: when Smith announced Wilson's sacking he skipped… secretary. It is understood Smith fudged both these steps and…not being in the prefu, Nick Smith lying about how much levies…
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 6:39 pm, March 14th, 2009 - 18 comments
Categories: ACC, humour
Tags:
…rating, Accident Compensation Minister Nick Smith has revealed he has… followed his chloroforming of ACC Chief Executive Jan White … attempt to undermine ACC". However Smith rejected the allegation as…the Woodhouse principles of ACC," stated Smith, "and if we…
Written By: Tane - Date published: 2:25 pm, March 13th, 2009 - 7 comments
Categories: ACC, spin, workers' rights
Tags: council of trade unions, nick smith
… Nick Smith in particular, have run a dishonest PR campaign to undermine ACC…, Cutting Through the Spin on ACC.
Written By: Tane - Date published: 11:27 am, March 12th, 2009 - 46 comments
Categories: ACC, national/act government, privatisation, spin
Tags: dominion post, eriksen & associates, nick smith, ross wilson
… PR campaign to undermine ACC as more and more…actuaries Eriksen & Associates refutes Nick Smith's lies about the "…the markets. But the ACC has also taken a …be the case. If Nick Smith were honest he'd apologise … cut services and hand ACC over to the private…
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 2:22 pm, March 5th, 2009 - 26 comments
Categories: ACC, economy, spin
Tags:
… on the ACC issue and one on Kiwirail. Nick Smith says that… outside the insurers' control, ACC already has much more efficient…not charging higher levies than ACC, private insurers would have … arguments from the Government on ACC, Kiwirail, and the Cullen…
Written By: Tane - Date published: 4:30 pm, March 4th, 2009 - 15 comments
Categories: ACC, national/act government, privatisation
Tags: kiwiblog, nick smith, no right turn
… concerns that it would privatise ACC, saying merely that it would…. No surprise then to see Nick Smith making dark mutterings today about… need for "big changes" at ACC. We can all guess what…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 3:17 pm, December 17th, 2008 - 28 comments
Categories: ACC, national/act government, privatisation
Tags: maryan street, nick smith
… workers in the pocket: ACC Minister Nick Smith yesterday said levies would increase… down, in order to demonise ACC and justify privatisation further down…
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