In the panel on a knowledge at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Melanie Webber looked at challenges confronting internationalised education.
That there is hysteria should surprise no one, but the Government seem to have been incredibly flat footed in their response. Where were the Governments heavy hitters to face the media platforms the day after the announcement and the narrative build up to defend the tax?
It feels uneasy to ask the majority to consider the rights of the minority, we want politicians to lead on these challenging issues, not throw it back to the baying majority like a one sided gladiatorial match.
Today you can hear the greedy swearing how Landlords could always punish the tenants and greedily recoup the costs of even the most basic health improvements to their revenue producing assets – like putting in a heater or underfloor insulation.
Today’s generation of young adults are the first generation in recent history who will be substantially worse off than their parents .
On the panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Aroha Mead, from Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou, reminded us what it means to live in Aotearoa.
If we care about poverty, the best a Capital Gains Tax does is raise a bit of revenue for the government to spend. We have to hope like hell that money gets spent on the real problems facing the country like child poverty, rather than middle class welfare like free tertiary education.
But thanks to Williams’ screeching abrasive would-be prognostication … if it keeps up, there is a very real risk that the only ‘entrails’ being read, will be those of the Tamihere campaign.
As the paywall gets closer and closer at the NZ Herald, we all hope there are things that go behind the pay wall and things that stay outside it.
Baby Boomers were lucky enough to live under Governments who rebuilt their societies post World War Two with the lesson of what happened if citizens weren’t protected from the sharp boom and busts of capitalism foremost in their minds. Those Governments inoculated their citizens from Fascism and Communism with a Democratic Welfare State and investment into their hopes and aspirations.