What do the Banks need to do in New Zealand before actual regulation?
Grant Robertson’s promise however to make sure the Banking Oligarch’s perverse grip on predatory loans & price gouging fees will be more stable than ever is hardly cheery.
New Zealand Politics
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Unite Union accuses Restaurant Brands of trying to cheat staff again over annual leave
Restaurant Brands Ltd (RBL), is asking staff to authorise the deduction of so-called overpayments from the annual leave money they owe their current and former staff.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Banking On ‘Business As Usual’
I heard Finance Minister Grant Robertson say on Morning Report today that he ” wasn’t expecting another financial crisis any time soon”.
Well, he and his advisors may not be expecting it, but surely one of the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis was that being so locked into maintaining ‘business as usual’ means we often fail to ask whether the usual way of doing business is the BEST way of doing it.
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National moves deck chairs on the Simon Bridges Titanic
So effectively mediocre white men have been advanced over any actual promotion of ability and charisma which isn’t a criticism of National, it’s more a statement of fact that denotes the very values they stand and sit when their told for.
I’ve seen more dynamic yawns than this reshuffle, it manages to make the term Shadow Cabinet even less substantive. More like a Wraith Cabinet.
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How Stuart Nash wins National the 2020 election
The forced importation of hardened Australian Organised Crime into a crime culture like NZ that has a far less violent nature has led to an explosion of gang related killings and assaults as the imported Crime Gangs immediately set to dominate the local versions.
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Confronting Racism In 1981 – And 2019
HOW VERY DIFFERENT the university campuses of 2019 are from the campuses of 1981. Thirty-eight years is a long time. There will be lecturers and tutors on campus today who weren’t even born in the year the Springboks came to tour. To those whose job it is to look back into the darker episodes of our past, New Zealand must seem like another country. Just how much that other country differed from the New Zealand of today was driven home to me while listening to RNZ journalist Katie Scotcher’s story on this morning’s (24/6/19) edition of Morning Report.
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Folau – the cost of being woke
I would argue that Folau’s Instagram post was stupid speech (as opposed to hate speech) and it also seems a little hollow for Qantas to attack Folau, because they are partnered to Qatar Airways and Emirates. Qatar imprisons homosexual acts, and the UAE punishes homosexuality with the death penalty.
It’s easy to scream at a Pacific Island Rugby player over conservative religious opinions on social media but far harder to stand up to actual state sponsored repression against gay communities.
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I saw our State lie to steal a baby – I don’t trust them with Euthanasia
This won’t be about personal freedom, this will be about the State culling the weakest amongst us.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Nature vs Nurture
Deciding whether or not to step into the character changing booth is another one of those questions that can peel back the layers of your attitudes, opinions and beliefs once you start to unpack it.
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Dr Liz Gordon: The killers of my grandson were sentenced in the High Court last week
The killers of my grandson, Bradley Lomax, were sentenced in the High Court last week. They each got 16-17 years non-parole period. Some of the family were there, and it is reported that they said they did not forgive the two men who killed Brad.