Simplistic views of the causes of inflation don’t do the left any favours
Chris Trotter pillories Act’s Brooke Van Velden for her response to Jack Tame in Q+A last Sunday. While Act deserves…
Susan St John
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Is Child Poverty really too hard to cure?
In the NZH editorial (Tuesday 27th Feb) , titled: ”New Zealand is failing our most vulnerable – our children” it…
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The coalition agreement for Working for Families is very weak but tweaks could improve it.
There were two promises in National’s original plan for Working for Families: an extra $25 a week from the In…
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So this is the best we can expect from the Working for Families (WFF)review?
For the last 2 decades critics have seen WFF as discriminatory, poorly designed, far too complex and woefully ineffective in…
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What are we to make of welfare and Working For Families reform now?
Last week in the house, Ricardo Menendez March asked some very pertinent questions in the Estimates Debate – Social Development….
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All for an extra $20 a week?
What a mess. What a pickle for the left. Labour, the party of ‘hard working’ New Zealanders, showed us just…
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A prayer to the god of small things
Gone are the expectations of transformation, game changers, or long-term vision. Could Labour please just fix some little irritations before…
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Let them eat cake
The worrying disconnect between the top echelon of the well -remunerated, and beneficiaries was nicely illustrated by two articles in…
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What comes next Labour? Time for transformational change- PLEASE Lets just do it this time.
The major announcements from Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ big policy refocus were to clear away the election losers and signal…
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Why have a big fund for a rainy day when the rain is here today
If you ask a member of the public what they know about the NZ Super Fund, it is usually very…