Some aspects of TPPA affecting health need to go on ice – NZNO
NZNO president Grant Brookes has sent an open letter to all Ministers negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), which…
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National Standards Plus a big minus for children’s learning – NZEI
The government’s plans to spend millions building a computer tool to track children’s progress as it happens, based on shonky…
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“Ban the Bag” policy needs to happen sooner – Greenpeace
Greenpeace is welcoming the Green Party’s commitment to ban single-use plastic bags. The Greens say they’d make it happen in…
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New plastic policy shows leadership on waste issues – Kiwi Bottle Drive
Clean beaches may be only a vote away following the welcome announcement of the Green Party to introduce a ‘bottle…
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More teaching time, not more measurement, teachers say – NZEI
Imposing further measurement of children’s progress on the shaky foundation of controversial National Standards is bad policy and bad for…
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579 shoes start journey to Parliament – YesWeCareNZ
579 shoes, representing each Kiwi lost to suicide in 2016, start their journey to parliament from Whangarei, Auckland and Invercargill…
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Labour’s health pledge recognises massive underfunding – Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
Labour’s health pledge recognises massive underfunding in primary care Today’s announcement by the Labour Party that it will cut fees…
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Generation Zero welcomes growing support for Zero Carbon Act
Youth climate change campaigners Generation Zero have welcomed the Green Party’s support for their proposed Zero Carbon Act and reissued…
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – I was shocked at the poverty in our regions
I have been on the road with Tamati Coffey helping promote our healthy home policy in Waiariki, but was shocked, angered and upset about how utterly guttered Maori dominated areas like Murupara have been allowed to become.
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Political Caption Competition
Shane Jones reflecting on all his life choices.