Changes to benefit sanctions regime welcome, but…
This is welcome news but it should be just the start of a new culture being imposed at WINZ.
New Zealand Politics
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Employers On The Warpath
He’s a weak link that Iain Lees-Galloway. Ever since he backed away from his party’s solemn promise to repeal the hated “Hobbit Law”, it’s been clear that the guy isn’t what you’d call a tower of union-backing strength. Word is that the MBIE bureaucrats had him house-trained in a matter of days.
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BREAKING: Unite Union says IRD going rogue against Labour Government!
Unite represents workers employed by Salmat who is a third party call centre operator currently contracted to provide services to the IRD. This contract was review early this year and Salmat’s services were discontinued to be replaced by temping agency Madison in September.
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Who the hell would not want to give domestic violence survivors time off? Why the National Party
…by the sacred blood of the zombie Jesus, who would refuse domestic violence survivors time off work?
Why, your friend and mine, the fucking National Party…
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Remember – this is NZ
Just pause & remember – this is a country that can needlessly blow $100m on meth decontamination, throw people onto the streets, take their kids & fine them all in the midst of a housing/homelessness crisis & NO ONE is held accountable!
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Why petrol tax is really Auckland economic apartheid
This isn’t acceptable, it’s a form of economic apartheid.
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Yo Hoots, when you were insinuating that David Parker was corrupt, did your mate Key not tell you it was actually him seeking the exemption?
David Parker is so scrupulously ethical he makes Golriz Ghahraman look like a cis-white heteronormative Trump supporter, so how on earth the Right in NZ managed to believe that Parker would do anything that wasn’t completely above board is utterly beyond me.
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Yay – the new Government are 20% less cruel than National! WHAT A WIN!
Holding up a pitiful 20% reduction on a policy of spite and cruelty without any reflection on the 20% that have been wrongfully kicked off welfare that number must then represent on the same day another atrocity from IRD & WINZ towards beneficiaries has just been exposed right after the horror the meth hysteria perpetrated against Housing NZ tenants IS NOT A REASON TO CELEBRATE!
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – TREATY COUNCIL korero
OREN LYONS is a Faithkeeper from the Seneca Nations, part of the Iroquois Confederacy whose land straddles the US/Canada border.
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Arthur Taylor: Crackdown by Prison for watching my interview with Lisa Owen
Officer Anthony Prinsloo (a South African) has just officially charged me with breach of a prison rule after having found me in another inmates cell watching Lisa Owen interviewing me on “Newshub Nation” on TV3 on Saturday morning .