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It’s appropriate that I give my view on our just released Budget. Already you have seen the misinformed and nonsensical views from the National and Māori Party on how ‘wonderful’ they were last time and how we ‘missed the boat’ this time. So let me tell you just how big the boat is that we have caught.
So why doesn’t New Zealand summon the Israeli Ambassador? Are we more indifferent to atrocities being committed? Also, as others have pointed out, the Working Holidays Scheme for young Israelis should be stopped.
The TWG has been set an impossible mission – improve the tax regime, make it more efficient and fair, but don’t recommend any changes to the tax treatment of owner occupied housing. And another – make the tax system fairer but don’t deal with the interface between tax rates and welfare (which is just negative tax after all).
Just to clear up the racist lies and propaganda that Hobsons Pledge are spreading about our founding national document the Treaty of Waitangi.
Reflecting on about 20 years of dealing with WINZ on and off, this is what I think needs to happen. Firstly, WINZ needs to be abolished. The mild reforms of the Clark years prove that it’s far too politicized to be reformed without just being deformed again by the next government. It’s a failed model. Just bin it.
A famous dead white man indulges us by coming back from the grave on his 200th birthday for a bit of celebrity haunting.
Gallstones are common, particularly in women. It is estimated that, from the age of 40, more than 20 out of 100 women, and 10 out of 100 men, have gallstones. If you have abdominal pain similar to what I spoke about in this vlog please get it checked out!
It really is time for the National Party to grow up and stop being so spiteful. Last month, National Party MP Tim Macindoe, wrote a column complaining and whinging that the new Government is pushing for laws that will strengthen the rights of New Zealand Workers.
Our land 2018, a recent report released by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ, has found we are damaging and losing our soils and our native plants and animals.
Yasser Murtaja, 30-year old Palestinian photojournalist , was shot and killed by Israeli IDF snipers on 06 April, while covering the first Friday of the Gazan Great March of Return. Murtaja, standing well back from the barrier fence, was wearing a blue flak jacket , marked in large letters PRESS. He was shot in the abdomen, just below his flak jacket. Five other Palestinian journalists were shot that same day.