We are a modern liberal democracy. Worker rights and the security in knowing your loved ones will return from work at the end of the day are demanded and expected in the modern age. That we as a nation have allowed anti-union political parties to rob us of that security is our fault.
It is increasingly becoming apparent that the dairy industry is a sunset industry, with synthetic meat and milk around the corner, the welfare, health and environmental costs of cows are something we simply can no longer justify.
It’s about time the Government moved on the grotesque imbalance of power between Landlord and Renter with some attempt at righting some wrongs…
Someone in Corrections should be held accountable & punished for the callous system that allowed this young man’s death in custody in May 2017 & the coverup afterward. That’s what would happen outside prison .
When Helen Clark’s Labour government came to power in 1999 there were 14,000 “non-casino” pokie machines in New Zealand. Four years later there were 25,000.
Labour was asleep at the wheel.
Simon Bridge’s previous job was as Criminal Prosecutor, Tauranga. He saw his job as getting as many “bad guys” as possible locked up for as long as possible. But he doesn’t know much about what motivates people to reoffend.
These same pundits who are decrying Jacinda based on an allegation would have also had Awanui Black hung drawn and quartered using the same logic.
The simple truth is that the neoliberal lite Labour, middle class identity politics Greens and the Provincial NZ First are incapable of effecting the radical reform needed to adapt our culture, economy and community to the realities of climate change.
Where the hell does Judith get off criticising Manning as a killer when she sits alongside Mark Mitchell a blood drenched Iraq war mercenary who worked in an industry that was riddled with allegations of war crimes?
The government “couldn’t” borrow directly because they had imposed an arbitrary limit on themselves that belongs in the realm of voodoo economics rather than science.