GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Paying our Sisters, Daughters, Aunties and Wives what they are worth is good for everyone
What better way to truly celebrate 125 years of universal suffrage than establish equal pay.
New Zealand Politics
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Dave Macpherson: Parents of Nicky Stevens call for stronger suicide reduction target than Inquiry suggests
“What we now want is for mental health to no longer be a political football, and for all the Parliamentary parties to get their heads together around a mental health improvement programme that all of them will sign up to going into the future.”
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WHOA! I know Simon Bridges is in trouble, but had NO IDEA he was in THIS MUCH trouble!
This is an act of meaningless desperation by an irrelevant leader desperately trying to stay relevant.
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Dr Liz Gordon: The state of the States
Just back from a week’s holiday in Hawaii which, by virtue of colonisation and capitalism, became the 50th State of the USA in 1959. As a series of Pacific Islands, it sits quite uncomfortably within the union of States. For example, the department stores were full of winter clothes, including coats, but Hawaii has no winter, the only ‘seasons’ being rainy and not-rainy.
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Will the Tax Working Group actually address housing inequality?
Inequality is a number one issue for Western countries like the US, UK Australia and New Zealand. It not the same as the poverty issue. The growth in extreme income and wealth differences has gathered momentum as tax-free gains accumulated at the top end compound asset values, while disadvantage and debt compound negatively at the bottom end. The fortunes of the top and the bottom are inextricably linked. To begin to reverse the growing wealth divide, policy must address the balance sheets of both.
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Raining On The White Tribe’s Parade
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? The people who decided it would be a good idea to take Santa out of the Nelson Santa Parade?
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NZDF secrecy to protect them, not us
When you consider only 324 documents out of 17 000 have been released, who is bering protected here?
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NZ First guts fishing oversight and it stinks
…so commercial fishing pay Shane a big donation and Shane cuts back on oversight of the commercial fishing industry.
Doesn’t that smell fishy?
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Labour’s declining share of national income
The economist for the Council of Trade Unions Bill Rosenberg has produced some revealing data about the resumption of the declining share of labour income in the New Zealand economy in the most recent CTU economic Bulletin.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Battlers
In my job I get to hear about a lot of sad and bad things, but I also have the privilege of talking with people who give me hope in humankind – ordinary folk who see a problem and try, against the odds, to do something about it.