Child Poverty Bill and Wellbeing Budget vital for change – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes both the Government’s first Wellbeing Budget and the passing into law of the Child…
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Minimum wage increase a decade overdue and the right thing to do – First Union
The Coalition Government has announced the largest increase to the minimum wage, ever, in its move towards its minimum wage…
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Minimum wage increase overdue – AAAP
The Government announced that it will be increasing the minimum wage from $16.50 to $17.70 per hour, as part of…
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E tū celebrates largest ever minimum wage increase
The minimum wage is set to increase by $1.20 to $17.70 in April 2019 – the largest increase in the…
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Fuel Truck Drivers’ Strike Turns Into Lively Picket – First Union
It’s day four of the fuel tanker strike and SouthFuel truck drivers are picketing their workplace. Bargaining broke down…
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Census 2018 – Heads should roll, incompetence reigns – Maori Council
The New Zealand Maori Council has poured scorn on Statistics New Zealand for what is turning out to be an…
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COP24 ends without firm promises to raise climate action – Greenpeace
Just two months after the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned we have 12 years left to save…
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Māori Climate Commissioner denounces UN climate talk appeasement in Poland
Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, has denounced the UN Climate talks in Poland as morally despicable and a wasted opportunity to the challenge of climate change.
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Giant chicken to hand-in 30,000 signatures to Waikato District Council – Direct Animal Action
Today and tomorrow, a hearing is taking place at Waikato District Council to decide if New Zealand’s largest egg producer,…
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Health Minister to meet Nicky Stevens family to discuss damning Coroner’s rulings
The family of 21-year-old Nicky Stevens who died while in the care of the Waikato DHB in 2015 say they…