Labour can get a CGT over the line by restricting who it punishes, and by aiming its sharpest edges towards those who property speculate. As long as Labour are prepared to fight and articulate why a CGT is fair, they can get this passed.
Becoming economically reliant on China is not a position we want to remain in.
The only way to force reform is shaming. The Government must look to the many, many NGOs and Community organisations that are forced to interact with the neoliberal welfare state and fund them to act as service support for beneficiaries and to produce public reports on counter productive policy.
THE APPALLING CONDUCT of the Waikato DHB raises broader questions about the robustness of New Zealand’s liberal democracy. Most particularly, it challenges the whole notion that the administrators of New Zealand society remain accountable to the people they administrate
This Inquiry may well be the most important examination of domestic intelligence ever conducted and it will be overseen by a Government who have clearly shown they will take direct action for change.
The more & more I read of the irrational, wilfully ignorant & down right malicious crap spouted by the NZ Gun Lobby…
Shane Jones is being publicly flogged in the media in todays Political Roundup.
A dedicated team of propaganda writers don’t stop just because they have been censured and fined by the broadcasting standards association.
Creswell NZ sounds like a New Zealand owned company doesn’t it?It’s not. In fact it is owned by Nongfu Spring Co., Ltd a massive Chinese bottling company and last year our Government allowed them to buy the land to build a massive 16,800m2 water bottling mega-plant at Otakiri in the Bay of Plenty .
After trying for two months to get a copy of Waikato DHB’s complaint to the Solicitor General about the Coroners findings regarding our son Nicky’s death, our family has finally got its hands on a copy – and no wonder the DHB was refusing to give us a copy!