After record spending on Health in Budget 2018 – Duncan Garner savagely blamed the coalition for the recent Junior Doctors strike saying the government only has itself to blame for strikes after hyping up pay expectations during the 2017 election.
Yesterday Andrew Dickens ( Newstalk ZB ) was worried sick because Jacinda had missed her ten minute chat with Mike Hosking – a mortal sin that deserved a load of fake bullshit and fist shaking revenge.
Our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, stated that climate change was her generations ‘nuclear-free moment’, yet when we consider actual environmental policy to date, we can conclude that this ‘moment’ is little more than a feel good nuclear free bumper sticker. This criticism is not just levelled at our Government, the latest research shows it can be made against almost every Government.
Simon thinks starting a new Green Party that doesn’t have a social conscience is the next big thing to save National from having no mates at the 2020 election.
The first panel at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like was on the Big Picture, with an overview on foreign policy, labour and women’s perspectives. This is the exchange on the perspective of global labour.
When National bent over backwards for Peter Jackson by handing over millions in corporate welfare to corporate Hollywood and changed our employment law, Labour screamed it was ‘crony capitalism’.
…that’s right folks, Dairy doesn’t shit into our rivers or steal our water! They didn’t get National to privatise 49% of our state owned energy assets to create an irrigation slush fund worth $400million to convert as many square inches of NZ into intensified dairy farms! No, they create a miracle juice that helps the sick and needy while keeping our rivers clean.
If this is the fourth estate holding power to account, power is having a field day.
The role the PSA and CTU have played in quietly supporting the creation of a scab union to undermine the Jnr Doctors has been well canvassed by Bryce Edwards and Chris Trotter, but you would have thought after such stinging criticism the PSA and CTU would acknowledge their tactics to undermine workers was wrong and lend their support.
Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says the ultimatum by West Coast Regional Council to see evidence human pollution is causing climate change before they reduce emissions is a shameful ignorance.