Of the remaining 108,983 small businesses with between 1 and 19 employees, only a small portion of them employ anyone on the minimum wage at all because many need higher skilled people with experience.
The Project last night was juggling between the euthanasia debate and a cheated wife from Married At First Sight.
In the wake of this atrocity we have solidarity and a genuine desire to change, regulating social media would be a huge step forward together on that, using an ideological framework over what can and can’t be said by the individual would be a giant leap backwards.
Barry did his best to fool us all that the Beehive had forgotten Beijing this morning.
There are many factors that keep people poor
I felt sorry for James Shaw last Wednesday morning. Guyon Espiner was like a lion with his head in his mouth, and all Minister Shaw could do was wave his hands. Guyon is right, the Green Party have been ineffectual advocating for the environment as part of this coalition. But it isn’t Minister Shaw’s fault. He is an incredibly smart and hardworking Minister with absolutely no bargaining power. And that lack of bargaining power is thanks to his own party members tying his hands.
Eventually, you have to muster the courage to do the right thing, or say what needs to be said about what is wrong in an organisation, however painful and difficult, and sometimes dangerous, that might be.
Over the past couple of weeks New Zealand has had a widespread outbreak of us-ness. It has been great. I particularly like the story of the three young women, school students, who saw a bus driver close the doors on a woman wearing a hijab, talked to her, waited with her, accompanied her on the next bus and ensured a complaint was laid even though the counter staff said it could not happen. They are cultural heroes!
Isn’t it incredible how left wing journalists, activists, Māori, environmentalists, Greenpeace, the Green Party, earthquake survivors and left wing bloggers all have to accept erosions of civil liberties in NZ, except for white supremacists who apparently can plot atrocities for years and the State doesn’t seem to want to annoy them.
While it was good to read of Facebook’s banning white nationalist content from its platforms the company needs to be more proactive on ALL hate speech and vile content videos.