Many New Zealanders know and loathe Wilson Parking for the utterly extortionate rates they charge at their pop-up car parks and garages. However, the Wilson corporate portfolio extends into far more nefarious business than $9 an hour car parking fees. Wilson is implicated in the Panama Papers and linked to one of Hong Kong’s largest corruption scandals.
The transfer of wealth (in the form of Crown cash and resources) from the poorest Maori communities to wealthy tribal elites (the Iwi Leadership Group) mirrors neatly the transfer of wealth from the 99 percent to the top 1 percent of income earners that is the hallmark of neoliberalism globally.
During last week, Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis was reported in both mainstream and social media as having had a text and phone ‘encounter’ with a severely depressed man who had harmed himself and was contacting Davis to say “goodbye”.
The Government’s own NZ Superannuation fund is heavily invested in major weapons dealers.# At present, it holds significant investments in…
Bus drivers could be the latest victims of poor government migration policy says Rudd Hughes, spokesperson for the Bus Drivers…
A meeting on Pacific labour mobility in New Zealand this week has a glaring omission – the voices of organised…
Greenpeace is calling for the Ruataniwha dam project in Hawke’s Bay to be scrapped in light of the latest lead…
Choose Clean Water says the contamination of Hawke’s Bay drinking water is a tragic demonstration of the government’s failure to…
The Council of Trade Unions is backing the call of two former All Blacks to protect family time at Easter….
Hundreds of concerned New Zealanders have come together to fund a full page advertisement in the Nelson Mail today to…