EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: Serco, Monitors, and the Corrections Dept cover-up
. . Continued from: Questions over Serco’s “independent” monitors and it’s Contract with the Crown As I wrote over a year…
Frank Macskasy
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Expose: Winston Peters; the 1997 speeches; and neo-liberal tendencies
in a speech made in 1997, when Peters was Treasurer in the National-NZ First Coalition Government, he told the NBR Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Government to Business Forum that he would be pursuing conservative fiscal management; supporting an “open, internationally competitive economy”; lower taxes; and a de-regulated market.
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Do National voters want us to be tenants in our own country?
The latest on housing unaffordability made worse by speculation. It seems our Canadian cuzzies are on the right track;
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Congratulations Dr Smith!!
Who would have thought that after eight years in Opposition, Labour still wields such powerful influence? Who thought it possible to govern from the Opposition benches?
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Special Education Funding – Robbing Peter, Paul, and Mary to pay Tom, Dick, and Harriet
National has come up with many “reforms”, proposals, policies, and ideas that eventually fail, or create unforeseen (or often foreseen; pre-warned; and ignored) problems. On this occasion, the proposal to increase spending for under-fives children with special needs, at the expense of older children, is short-sighted madness that beggars belief.
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MUST READ: TDB Investigation into what is happening in our water
On 7 September, 2008, John Key said that “…we should always measure a Government’s environmental rhetoric against its environmental record.”
Indeed we should.
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We don’t want to send the wrong message – John Key
what message was Parliament (ie; National) sending to our children in March 2009, when it abandoned the campaign to implement healthy food options in our schools?
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National exploits fudged Statistics NZ unemployment figures
A person job-searching using the internet was “not actively seeking work“. Predictably, at the stroke of a pen, unemployment “fell” over-night from 5.7% to 5.2%.
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Is Karl du Fresne happy now? How ‘neutral’ is Radio NZ really?
In March 2013, former Dominion editor and right-wing columnist, Karl Du Fresne, spat an almighty dummy when he launched a diatribe of accusations of “bias” against Radio New Zealand;
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“Spinning” in a post-truth era
Two recent media stories, on two utterly disparate issues, were clear examples of how tax-payer funded media “spin doctors” were guiding government ministers to respond to questions in a certain way.