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USA Big noting. Lack of balance in their so-called justice.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/490528/a-rogue-cop-is-a-dangerous-cop-parents-of-nz-man-killed-by-us-police-say-large-settlement-sends-strong-message
It is cheaper apparently for them to carry on with their egregious actions and pay out big when someone can make a small hole in their nearly impervious armour, than to clean up their act and be 100% pure as they seem to consider themselves.
You can see that we are increasingly the same – liars till we get called out that we are not 100% pure.
A quote I put up elsewhere applies to this approach by gummint.
‘[S]ocial questions never get solved until the pressure becomes so desperate that even governments recognise the necessity for moving. And to bring the pressure to this point, the poets must lend a hand to the few who are willing to do public work in the stages at which nothing but abuse is to be gained by it.’
(Shaw, 1964, p.975; quoted in John Constable, ‘Derek Mahon’s Development’, in Neil Corcoran, ed., Chosen Ground [… &c.], 1992, pp.107-18.p.154.)
http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/s/Shaw_GB/quots.htm
@Grey:
I know you’re an avid RNZ listener, as am I. And a suppota.
But you’ve got to ask yourself WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITHIN.
Sauces of various flavours tell me all is not tickety boo.
I’d start with the Chief and his little bromance: Willy from the Chocolate factory – only because neither seem to understand the concept of PSB.
Not too dissimilar from Auntie Beeb in its current form, they seem to think its commercial radio without the ads.
They’re losing people left right and centre.
(Something must be done!)
Of course the bigger country would be right. After all we get so many of our admins and cleos from over seas. We haven’t got the productivity thing right – it seems to be measuring what we the simple NZ workers turn out. Our own ideas, creativity and perspiration is rated low.
See how the exploiters manipulate the language, and spin and bullshit!
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/05/23/uber-drivers-long-shifts-low-fares-and-freedom-but-only-kind-of/
John Campbell’s investigation into Uber drivers
Uber drivers are actually DEPENDENT contractors, not INdependent.
The only thing these so-called gig workers is flexibility in the hours worked.
Just like courier drivers. All expenses are put on the contractor.
Uber is worse in that they also play little tricks like ranking drivers into various classes, and undertaking what I call ‘herding’. Their primary concern is to make themselves look good to the customer.
Technically it’d be a simple matter to ensure drivers received the equivalent of an hourly wage for each hour worked. Really it needs to be more than minimum to take account of expenses.
Really disappointed this was not one of the FIRST things Labour tackled when coming to power
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2305/S00035/rogues-consultants-pwc-tax-evasion-and-getting-clients.htm
Please note and salute an honest hero in Oz; not forgetting Assange – both doing whistle-blowing under the mantle of public knowledge of important information affecting the peeps.
In Australia, it has also been particularly galling to see the prospect that sharing such confidential information – notably in terms of tax policies – will see no PwC employee or member of management spend time mournfully gazing from a prison cell. That prospect is what faces Richard Boyle, the Australian Taxation Office’s whistleblower who exposed the predatory conduct of its debt collecting practices with tigerish courage.
Boyle recently lost his appeal to seek immunity from prosecution from that most feeble of instruments, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (Cth), with the judge taking issue with his supposedly cavalier tactics in gathering material on the abuses in question. In the words of ABC business editor Ian Verrender, it “has highlighted the stark difference in justice meted out to those acting alone as opposed to those protected by the veil of the corporate world.”
(Send this criminal to NZ for censure as if this is bad behaviour we need (l)awful people of this calibre raising the IQ of our Robin Hoods.)
To share details of such abuses with a public audience is considered a criminal act; to share confidential government information with wealthy, private entities and individuals keen to increase client numbers clearly isn’t….
Committee Chair Labor Senator Deborah O’Neill, champing at the bit, is keen to identify the 50 PwC partners and 14 US tech companies that are said to feature in the relevant emails. Educated guesses already point to such companies as Google, Microsoft and Apple as recipients of the confidential tax information.
Her assessment of PwC’s overall contribution to government is barbed: “Between [the company’s] role in multinational tax avoidance and the shabby way they handled their report into the Robodebt scheme, there are serious doubts about whether any work the consulting firm did for government can be relied upon.”
Even as the flames rise, PwC is attempting to rein in the prospects of a broader inquiry, hoping that a review the company itself announced, to be led by former Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski, will take care of any matters regarding company governance and practice. In a toothless threat, a promise has been made that “exiting further people and partners from the firm” would take place, a form of cleansing that will leave the transgressions essentially unpunished…
Greens Senator Barbara Pocock has made much the same observation. “What PwC is proposing is like putting someone who’s been charged with corruption in charge of their own trial.” Irrespective of who was “put in charge, it’s still paid for and run by PwC. Promising to release a summary of the fundings is not the same thing as making the findings available to the public.”
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2305/S00037/visits-of-justice-stella-assanges-plea-to-australia.htm
The spirited defence of Julian Assange may help to move the blockheads who have neither spirit or soul to call finis. One believes so. ‘Make it so.’
… regarding the prosecution of Julian Assange, it was strikingly poignant to have his wife, Stella, present at the centre of Australia’s press epicentre: the National Press Club in Canberra…
Stella’s agenda is clear, direct, and powerful. There is no time for frills. She knows that the realm of ideas has little truck with the breakfasting, lunching and dining journalists who titter across Canberra and offer the rest of Australia information of an embarrassingly poor quality. It was important to keep matters simple….
The cell Assange occupies is but a mere three by two metres, a situation scandalous in the absence of any conviction, and all the more so for that fact. The cold draft that comes in through the window is nullified, to some extent, by books, something poignant, given his intellectually curious state. In this sense, literature does not merely nourish the mind but literally offers a buttressing shield against the elements.,,
The herculean efforts by Stella and Assange’s father, John Shipton, have certainly gotten the attention of the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. In an interview with the Australian broadcaster, the ABC, earlier this month, he claimed to be doing in private what he was saying in public: “that enough was enough.” Diplomatic channels were being used, but the PM lamented the lack of success thus far. “I know it’s frustrating, I share the frustration. I can’t do more than make it very clear what my position is.”
That measure of frustration should indicate the extent, and worth, of Australia’s influence and pull over their brute of an ally. Despite essentially gifting the country to Washington’s military industrial complex, gratitude towards Australian requests is not in ample supply on the Assange affair. In refusing to meet Assange’s wife (he does not believe in “grandstanding”), Albanese continues to claim that “[n]othing is served from the ongoing incarceration” of the publisher. He was also pleased that the position on Assange was now a bipartisan one – the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, had also joined the pro-release advocates.
For all this, the prime minister is also entertaining a doomed equation: that Assange’s release will probably be achieved only after the time he has already served is deemed sufficient relative to the time he would get were the allegations against him proved. Given that the 18 charges levelled against Belmarsh’s most prominent political prisoner would yield prison sentences anywhere up to 175 years, expectations must be dampened. For all that, Stella’s observation that her husband’s life was “in the hands of the Australian government” remains powerfully pertinent. If not now, when?
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