GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Annie Newman on the ‘wellbeing budget’
“You can’t have a ‘wellbeing’ budget if your low paid workers are not having better lives as a result of it”
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$17million camera programme good for fishing sector not for dolphins
For years I’ve been writing on this blog and elsewhere about New Zealand’s shame in failing Māui and Hector’s dolphins. Here I go again.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – What about the nurses?
Kerri Nuku is the Kaiwhakahaere of the New Zealand Nurses Union. If anyone should know about what contributes to physical wellbeing it’s our nurses – Kerri has bad news for Grant Robertson.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Ganesh Nana on the ‘Wellbeing Budget’
Just prior to the People’s Budget Event we recorded in Otahuhu last Friday I interviewed Ganesh Nana who is the Chief Economist of Business Economic Research Ltd (BERL) . I asked him 4 questions related to the “Wellbeing Budget” and our economic direction.
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Can teachers trust Union Leaders not to sell them out?
The neutering of the Union movement from the radical right wing agendas of the 1990s followed by the nothing Helen Clark did for workers, followed by the subdued fear under the Key has left most Union Leaders too shy to actually demand anything so the explosion of activism from the base has finally put real muscle back into negotiations.
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GUEST BLOG: John Tamihere – Open Letter to the Serious Fraud Office
Council representatives on this committee were left with no idea as to who had bid on the CAB building, what dollar values were bid on it and why the final decision was made to advance interests with a company known as Tawera Group in 2016.
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: Trump in the UK, Treasury meltdown, Teacher’s strike, climate change & straight pride parade
THIS WEEK: Trump in the UK, Treasury meltdown, Teacher’s strike, climate change & straight pride parade
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TV REVIEW: Chernobyl – Gen X ratings winner & why the accents worked
Gen X, (the generation who always get ignored), roared back into life last week by reminding everyone they are a huge target market with a ratings bonanza that has helped ‘Chernobyl’ become the highest rated series ever!
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Declaration Rejecting the Escalation of the U.S. Economic War Against Cuba
Since annual voting on the US blockade of Cuba began at the United Nations in the 1990s, the vast majority of member-nations have supported the proposal that it cease immediately.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Grant Robertson is delivering a $3.5 Billion surplus but there is ” no more money for teachers” says the Minister of Education.
We have the third lowest government debt in the OECD yet Greens co-leader James Shaw advocated the “Fiscal Responsibility” rules both parties signed which pushes already low government debt even lower, while private debt ( I’m talking things like tertiary education debt, household debt credit card debt that kind of thing ) is sky rocketting.