Break out the champagne! City Care victory
After a two-year battle KOA was successful in not only stopping the sale of the council works company City Care but also in pressuring the council to restore the company to the strategic assets list.
Read More →Christchurch council helps National’s social vandalism
It is deeply disappointing to see the Christchurch City Council lining up to help the government sell 2,500 state houses in Christchurch.
Read More →What does the Corbyn result in the UK mean for New Zealand?
New Zealand’s Labour Party is a neo-liberal, free market party with policies to match. If NZ Labour wins in September then income inequality and wealth inequality will continue to increase while the rest of us struggle to add that extra lining to the pockets of the idle rich.
Read More →Why do we give knighthoods to losers?
What has that man done to deserve a knighthood? Was it the pulling of ponytails? Was it the flag referendum? Was it the lies about mass surveillance? Was it the hundreds of thousands of our kids he left in poverty? Was it the failure of the housing market? Was it the exponential rise in electricity prices? Was it for running down the public health system? Was it for underfunding education? Was it for screwing the poor?
Read More →A reality check on the budget
The simple truth is that the bulk of high wage and salary earners, low-wage employers and parasitic landlords are National Party supporters. This is their budget.
Read More →Budget 2017 – here we go again
All indications are National is about to outflank Labour on the left with its 2017 budget and leave the party that claims to represent working New Zealanders struggling to appear relevant.
Read More →Gerry Brownlee’s new “kith and kin”
In one of his first acts as Foreign Minister he has written to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to get our diplomatic relations “back on track” after Israel withdrew its ambassador to New Zealand last December following our co-sponsoring of a security council resolution which condemned Israel for continuing to build Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian land.
Read More →“I do not care for the word ‘peacekeeper'” – Head of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Tim Keating
ANZAC Day should be a time when we pledge to use every means possible to avoid war. It should be a time when we assert an independent foreign policy with New Zealand’s foremost role as peacemakers and peacekeepers.
Read More →Doug Myers, morality and business
Across the media Myers is being praised as a business leader and philanthropist yet he made money not through his own efforts but through using his massive inherited wealth to exploit the free-market economic policies he championed, as a leading light in the Business Roundtable, alongside the Labour Party of the 1980s. That wealth he gained was at the expense of middle and low-income New Zealanders who continue to struggle today to provide that triple lining to the pockets of the super wealthy.
Read More →The new Ministry for Roger Douglas’s Children
The new Ministry should be called the Ministry for Roger Douglas’s Children because it was the brutal policies of Douglas and his Labour Party cohorts unleashed on New Zealand from 1984 which, several decades later, are continuing to devastate communities, families and children.
Read More →Labour and the Greens prostrate themselves to corporate capitalism
I think pitiful is the best single word to sum up this deal.
Read More →New Zealand SAS directly implicated in unjustified cowardly killings
We should all feel a profound sense of shame.
Read More →Helen Clark and John Key share the blame for the fiasco in Afghanistan
As the government does its best to squirm its way out of holding any inquiry into the killing of civilians during an SAS-led raid on two villages in Afghanistan its worth looking back at why we were there in the first place – or better still – why we shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
Read More →What the National Party does best – social vandalism
Even National’s $25 per week benefit increase last year pales into insignificance with the news that reductions in the real value of Working for Families payments since National took office have taken a cumulative $2 billion from the homes of families on low incomes.
Read More →Christchurch City Council housing failure a tragedy for low-income families
The real devastating failure of the city rebuild is the plight of low-income families left high and dry by the Christchurch City Council.
Read More →It’s not a “perceived conflict of interest” – it’s corruption
What this situation shows most clearly is the complete lack of public service ethos in these individuals. It is a lack of ethical behaviour which now pervades the senior levels of our public services across the country – both in government and local body organisations.
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