So this is ‘job creation’ by foreign ownership?
. . This is not the news that towns and regions across the country want to wake up to; ….
Frank Macskasy
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Mediawork’s at war with NZ on Air – Possible conflict of interest as first reported last year on TDB
It has taken nearly eight months, but after my initial findings, this story has finally been reported by the msm.
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Setting it straight on user-pays in tertiary education – one letter at a time
Labour’s promise of a return to (limited) free tertiary education appears to be unsettling some, for whom the last thirty years has been dominated by the implementation and bedding-in of user-pays (often gradually, so as not to spook the punters) ; reduced-tax; and minimalist-government ideology;
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In response to Orwellian National Supporters
I see that National Party apparatchiks are up to their usual disingenuous tricks, trying to suggest that Labour was a worse manager of the New Zealand economy than National;
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2016 – Ongoing jobless tally
Continued from: 2015 – Ongoing jobless tally
So by the numbers, for this year;
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The Mendacities of Mr Key # 16: No one deserves a free tertiary education (except my mates and me)
Prior to 1992, tertiary education at Universities was mostly free, with minimal course fees. On top of which, a student allowance plus part-time paid employment, was usually sufficient for students to graduate with minimal debt hanging over them.
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Citizens present petition at Governor General’s gate
NZ, Wellington, 30 January – Several hundred people met at Wellington’s Waitangi Park, to vent their opposition at the impending signing and ratification of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA);
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Dumber and dumber, scarier and scarier
If the spectre of a neo-fascist demagogue ruling the most powerful nation on Earth – bristling with an arsenal of city-smashing atomic bombs and other advanced, lethal weapons – wasn’t chilling enough, the prospect of a political moron endorsing a billionaire clown-presidential-candidate would be like a Hollywood political satire.
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The Mendacities of Mr Key # 15: John Key lies to NZ on consultation and ratification of TPPA
At every opportunity, our esteemed Dear Leader and other National MPs and Ministers have been eager to assure New Zealanders that the text of the TPPA would be submitted to a select committee; scrutinised, and ratified by Parliament before it was signed.