GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – “Wellbeing” who would not be for it?
Is there really no more money for teachers when we are running a $5 Billion surplus and have one of the lowest rates of government debt in the OECD?
New Zealand Politics
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National Projecting Photo-Op Politics Failures At Government Over Budget
So holdup … the National Party is attempting to make a big deal out of the person whose photo’s on the cover of 2019 Budget having moved to Australia at some point in the past few years, yeah?
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Dave Macpherson: ‘Great to see Mental Health treated as the No 1 Priority’
The parents of Nicky Stevens, who died in 2015 while in the ‘care’ of Waikato DHB’s acute mental health facility, have welcomed the focus of the 2019 Budget on Mental Health.
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National’s Ongoing Budget-Grade Shenanigans – When Is It Appropriate To Lose One’s Head?
Back in 2012, when the Ministry of Social Development made a whole swathe of highly sensitive information about its clients and operations (including case-notes, personal details of at-risk children, medical records, legal paperwork etc. etc etc.) available to literally anyone who walked off the street into a WINZ office and used a self-service kiosk, I don’t think I recalled Paula Bennett appearing behind the National Leader of the day to demand that the minister in question responsible resign forthwith?
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On the day of the NZ Crown budget presentation – the utterly corrupt NZ ‘Independent’ Police Conduct Authority, drops a devastating report
They served him breakfast and it was only at 10am when they came to get him for court they found he was dead – and had been for probably 6 hours.
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If Labour looked after children in poverty with as much passion as they protect public servants we wouldn’t need a well being budget
Labour are lucky that the Treasury mishandling of the budget has become the story rather than the fine print reading of the budget because the lack of anything remotely representing transformation would have killed voters who had put their hopes into Jacinda’s politics of kindness. The truth is this budget falls far short of anything meaningful.
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The People’s Budget: 7.30pm Tonight
Can Neoliberalism build a wellbeing budget? Has the Government been transformational?
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: Budget, Whaleoil book & Trevor Mallard’s allegation of rape
THIS WEEK: Budget, Whaleoil book & Trevor Mallard’s allegation of rape
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Dear Teachers of NZ – you are our last chance!
At some stage, the Government have to bow to your demands, and seeing as the ‘transformational budget’ was about as transformative as a lump of coal, you are the last chance progressive NZ has to show people power is the only truly transformative force in politics.
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With this budget, the Government have shown us they define ‘transformational’ about as well as Treasury defines ‘hack’.
The biggest losers here are the hundreds of thousands of New Zealnder’s desperately needing hope in mental health, poverty, low income wages and housing who were cruelly let down by the hacking/leaking drama played out by politicians who care less for the issues and more for the cheap headlines.