Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 9:27 am, December 11th, 2012 - 54 comments
Categories: poverty
Tags: children's commissioner
… safety. Government to work with finance sector to provide zero-interest… than the Government spent on South Canterbury Finance without a second thought. It…
Written By: James Henderson - Date published: 6:29 am, November 14th, 2011 - 67 comments
Categories: david cunliffe, election 2011, labour, national, privatisation
Tags:
… already spent billions bailing out South Canterbury Finance, MediaWorks and AMI. 5. Use…’t guarantee on those issues”: Finance & Expenditure Committee, 22 June 2011…
Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:14 am, October 10th, 2021 - 17 comments
Categories: capitalism, China, Deep stuff, Economy
Tags:
… see the equivalent of a South Canterbury Finance guarantee like we did. It…
Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:41 am, July 22nd, 2020 - 29 comments
Categories: australian politics, China, Deep stuff, Economy, economy, exports, Globalisation, International, jacinda ardern, labour, Politics, uncategorized, us politics
Tags:
… just for recovery. Bailing out South Canterbury Finance used to be big. Nope…
Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:42 am, May 29th, 2018 - 166 comments
Categories: Conservation, Environment, exports, farming, farming, food, uncategorized
Tags:
… subsidy as it did to South Canterbury Finance, Minnie Cooper Shoes, or any…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:02 am, September 17th, 2015 - 30 comments
Categories: babies, child welfare, families, national
Tags: paid parental leave, sue moroney, veto
… $1.7 billion to bailout South Canterbury Finance, but they can't find the…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:18 am, November 6th, 2013 - 99 comments
Categories: capitalism, national, privatisation
Tags:
…. It's the SkyCity deal. It's South Canterbury Finance. It's AMI. It's Rio Tinto…
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 8:04 am, August 10th, 2013 - 19 comments
Categories: business, national
Tags: chorus, fonterra, tiwai point
… "hands on". We've had the South Canterbury Finances in the past (won't somebody…
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 7:07 am, July 4th, 2012 - 33 comments
Categories: greens, national
Tags:
… transfers in Afghanistan. Charter schools. South Canterbury Finance affair. The police case against…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:40 am, October 12th, 2011 - 8 comments
Categories: business, debt / deficit, Economy
Tags: bail-outs
… inevitably made them worse. Take South Canterbury Finance. The Auditor-General has reviewed…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:05 pm, June 4th, 2011 - 83 comments
Categories: disaster, Gerry Brownlee
Tags: christchurch rebuilding
… in the Mediaworks, AMI, and South Canterbury Finance bailouts, that were entirely the…
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 7:44 am, April 5th, 2011 - 63 comments
Categories: class war
Tags: christchurch earthquake
… own way. Unless you're a South Canterbury Finance investor of course.
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:00 pm, February 21st, 2011 - 9 comments
Categories: wages, workers' rights
Tags: ihc carers
… bailing out rich investors in South Canterbury Finance or buying new limos, their…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 9:00 am, February 7th, 2011 - 24 comments
Categories: class war, national/act government
Tags: bob parker, christchurch earthquake, gerry brownlee, john key, pike river mine, south canterbury finance, the hobbit
When a millionaire director and a foreign corporate wanted millions in tax breaks, Key jumped to it. When SCF collapsed the investors got an average of $60K, no questions asked. But when it comes to helping the ordinary families of Christchurch and the …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 6:19 am, December 14th, 2010 - 52 comments
Categories: tax
Tags: government waste, sovereign debt, tax cuts
… of the government's books: the South Canterbury Finance collapse, the Christchurch Earthquake, the…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:00 am, October 19th, 2010 - 87 comments
Categories: education, national, wages
Tags: ppta, strike
… rich and to bail-out South Canterbury Finance investors. Teachers don't want to…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:00 am, September 11th, 2010 - 34 comments
Categories: accountability, public services
Tags: christchurch earthquake, south canterbury finance
Bill English has ruled out an inquiry into the SCF affair. Think about that: the government is forced to spend the annual Police budget in a single morning and it isn't even interested in learning what could have been done better. Compare that to the …
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 7:00 am, September 10th, 2010 - 15 comments
Categories: Economy
Tags: fran o'sullivan, south canterbury finance
I don't always agree with Fran O'Sullivan. But she is a real journalist – one of the few. Consider this from her piece in Wednesday's Herald: It will become clear in due time that the Government's receivership option didn't just appear out of thin air …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 11:45 am, September 2nd, 2010 - 22 comments
Categories: class war, Satire, welfare
Tags: bail-outs, south canterbury finance
To find out who it is, click here. Will this individual's personal file be read out in Parliament by Paula Bennett? Will this beneficiary's sex life be investigated by WINZ as grounds for disqualification? Will this beneficiary be required to go to through…
Written By: karol - Date published: 8:05 am, December 29th, 2012 - 93 comments
Categories: business, economy, Environment, farming, overseas investment, Privatisation
Tags: asset sales
… dip in a company's performance. Finance Minister Bill English has been… 38 hectares near Glenavy in South Canterbury, to build an infant formula… schemes like Hunter Downs and South Waitaki still to come off…
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 7:26 am, August 28th, 2018 - 3 comments
Categories: activism, australian politics, campaigning, discrimination, equality, feminism, gender, history, human rights, labour, national, patriarchy, Politics, public services, same old national, sexism, uk politics, Unions, wages
Tags: australian politics, Equal pay, gender equality, ILO, IRD, Jean Parker, labour, national party, psa, tramways union, UK politics
… leading up to the New South Wales (NSW) state government… that state.[173] In South Australia, equal pay meetings … had deteriorated rapidly.[215] Finance Minister Arnold Nordmeyer and Nash…Zealand women and the state Canterbury University Press 2000 Nolan, …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:21 am, May 4th, 2018 - 87 comments
Categories: David Farrar, dpf, making shit up, Media, national, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: matthew hooton, Middlemore Hospital
… five spots on the south wall of the Scott … (only changing CDHB to Canterbury DHB, and 'yours sincerely' …and then-Finance Minister Bill English. It stated: "The Canterbury DHB …within existing crown funding; and Canterbury DHB's own resources." Effectively,…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:59 pm, May 15th, 2015 - 59 comments
Categories: budget 2015, grant robertson, labour
Tags: budget 2015
Labour's Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson gave his …. There is no doubt the Canterbury earthquakes were not only a… Global Financial Crisis and the Canterbury earthquakes. They were going to… Zealand from the engineers in South Dunedin to the farmers in…
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 6:01 am, September 20th, 2023 - 15 comments
Categories: act, campaigning, chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, economy, election 2023, elections, First Past the Post, greens, inequality, labour, leadership, Long Read, maori party, MMP, national, national/act government, nz first
Tags: act, chris hipkins, Christopher luxon, green party, Labour Party, maori party, national party, NZ General Election 2023
… Labour's numbers have gone south. It is telling that…features Christopher Luxon and Opposition Finance Spokesperson Nicola Willis, who… National, if polling goes south in government may decide to…Tory in 2019, or Canterbury and Kensington swinging to Labour…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:55 am, May 6th, 2014 - 61 comments
Categories: david cunliffe, labour
Tags:
…Regional Development 2 Parker Finance Attorney General 3 …Development Assoc Auckland Issues (South Akl) Assoc Sport …Senior Citizens Disability Issues Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Land …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:46 pm, November 28th, 2018 - 134 comments
Categories: China, Economy, International, The Standard
Tags: anne-marie brady, bigots, fran o'sullivan, ruth richardson
…: "Former National MP and Finance Minister Ruth Richardson was a… was led by the vigorous Canterbury entrepreneur John Penno – had …success. A strong employer in Canterbury. It has driven exports …, Edward Snowden told the South China Morning Post that the…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:02 am, June 4th, 2016 - 53 comments
Categories: election 2017, greens, Media
Tags: change the government, livestream
…. 3. How are the party's finances? JS: Raised more than ever… a future. And here in Canterbury, we owe it to the… 11 living under bushes in South Auckland. That’s not New… devolve more power over the Canterbury recovery to smart local people…
Written By: advantage - Date published: 10:55 am, March 9th, 2018 - 73 comments
Categories: capitalism, Economy, Globalisation, International, overseas investment
Tags:
…greatest philanthropists, told the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee …? Public access to iconic South Island high-country stations….process, members of the Finance and Expenditure Committee are:… Gore and Pokeno and Canterbury? I suspect Fonterra would…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:05 am, May 18th, 2021 - 31 comments
Categories: class war, cost of living, housing, human rights
Tags: tiny house, tiny housing
… that their return on mortgage financing keeps well in the black…/building-consents/exemptions/ Developer in South Wairarapa changed plan to build…?c_id=1&objectid=12256611 Canterbury man proves in court his…
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