Why amplifying Simon Bridges comments will probably help him
While Bridges needs calling out, I don’t think woke twitter has the nuance to do that without creating more support for Simon.
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If we can admit Housing NZ meth policy was an abortion, why can’t we also check the neoliberal welfare agencies other sacred cows like inane WINZ Office security?
If we can admit Housing NZ meth policy was an abortion, why can’t we also check the neoliberal welfare agencies other sacred cows like inane WINZ Office security?
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A breath of fresh air for schools
The early signs are good for the government review of Tomorrow’s Schools.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Hopes and fears
It is hard to know what to take from the US border crisis. On the one hand, the rhetoric and actions were so reminiscent of 1930s Germany that it would be easy to argue that Nazism has officially arrived in the White House. On the other hand, the embarrassing backdown shows that Trumpism is far from all-powerful and may be just a blip in the system, a passing fad.
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GUEST BLOG: V Hoy – The Business in Politics
With NZ falling further and further behind in this booming new industry, its hoped so and soon. But is it too little too late? The referendum for Cannabis is also due for 2019, so has the canna movement missed the boat to make a serious impact on the law decision? And where are all the big investors who are willing to put the money in? Are the big corporations that influential?
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Why we should do the exact opposite of what David Seymour is saying about public holidays
We should not be making public holidays free market, we should see them as the nation building exercise and shared cultural values they establish for us.
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Why Damien Grant is utterly wrong on Nicky Hager
The Right are so angry at how Hager has extinguished their moral high ground they don’t even have the decency to acknowledge Hager’s importance and service to journalism, preferring to claim hypocrisy because Hager did his law protected duty.
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Andrew Little called the Sensible Sentencing Lynch Mob ‘loopy’ & ‘callous’ because they are ‘loopy’ and ‘callous’
Poor Andrew Little is having to get to grips with reforming our broken corrections industry and part of that means confronting the madness of the Sensible Sentencing Trust.
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Stolen Holiday Pay must be paid back – the Government must act
The truth is there is nothing very complicated about the calculation of annual leave. Leave was to be calculated weekly and when it was taken it should be valued at the greater of the worker’s current wage or their yearly average. This had been true since 1948.
What was clarified in the 2003 Act was that if it was difficult to determine what an ordinary week was, for example, because they worked variable hours each week, then the worker should get the higher of their yearly average or the average of the last four weeks. This was explained in the Act in minute detail. No mistaken understanding could be taken from the plain language.
It has become clear that almost no major employer or payroll provider did this simple calculation. Many also did not include regular allowances that should have been.
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Emotion, Not Reason, Is Driving New Zealanders’ Attitudes Towards Crime And Punishment
It was the famous English jurist, Sir William Blackstone, who said: “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” It is perhaps the greatest achievement of New Zealand’s Sensible Sentencing Trust that the present reality of dozens of innocent persons spending months in remand cells for offences they will later be acquitted of does not enrage the New Zealand public. Their motto would appear to be: “It is better that ten innocent people remain locked-up than that one guilty person re-offends on bail.”