If the C19th author Charles Dickens were alive today he’d have much to write about, because the old wealthy and the new wealthy have managed to recapture our economy and take us back to those dark times before the social welfare system was created.
At the panel on sustainable work, at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Dennis Maga talked about the issues for migrant workers.
By agreement with the previous Board Chair and CEO, my whanau was given permission to make a brief presentation to the Board of Waikato DHB shortly after our son Nicky’s death in 2015. The presentation was principally in support of a request to the DHB to fund legal representation for our whanau in respect of the Coronial Inquest into Nicky’s death.
National played petty politics this week at what was meant to be the first meeting of the year of Parliament’s powerful Finance and Expenditure Select Committee.
Great to see his work in mental health ,especially with young people, being recognised.
The latest quarterly KPMG survey of the banking and finance sector shows collective profits for the 20 registered banks hit a record last year, rising 11 percent to $5.77 billion from $5.19bn in 2017.
New Zealand’s exports of all goods and services to China were worth $16.6 billion for the year ended September 2018.
A year before then this was only $14.0 Billion.
Check that out – in one year of working with Winston Peters, Jacinda Ardern, David Parker and others – New Zealand exports to China have grown by a massive $2.6 Billion.
I am determined to see this case through to its conclusion. I believe, in light of this judgment, it is now clear that there can only be one conclusion; Cameron Slater will be held accountable for his actions.
At the panel on sustainable work, at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Annie Newman pressed the case for the living wage as a central principle for New Zealand’s future trade policy.