MFAT use dirty corporate spies to spy on TPPA protestors
Who did Thompson + Clark spy on? Who authorised it?
New Zealand Politics
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MUST READ: Letting In The Light
The position of Jacinda’s government is not made any easier by elements within the news media who act as if the Right’s suspicion and resentment is, in some unexplained way, justified. In spite of the fact that the Labour-NZF-Green government has been in office barely six months, and ignoring the almost daily revelations of the previous government’s extraordinary derelictions and mismanagement, they lash Jacinda’s ministers as if they alone are responsible for the fact that the country’s infrastructure is, quite literally, rotting away.
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Wage theft at Maccas – $1 million a year in lieu days or public holiday pay
It has been over three years since we first wrote to the company questioning how they calculated annual leave and asking them to fix it. At first, they simply ignored or rejected our arguments out of hand. We then applied for an Employment Relations Authority hearing on the issue.
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MUST READ: The fiscal stranglehold
When the Fund is included, New Zealand’s net debt level becomes extremely low. Treasury projections in the fiscal update December 2017 show net debt including the fund actually disappears by 2022! Time to stop the fiscal panic please.
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GUEST BLOG: Andrew Courtney – Winners and Loser: The New Zealand Tax System
There has been the constant spectre of the Tax Working Group hanging over us, and over the weekend, the appointment of Marama Davidson as Co-leader of the Greens gave rise to the discussion of new and higher taxes, including higher income tax, for which she is a supporter.
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TDB Prisoner Rights Blogger Arthur Taylor challenging the Government
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As they whine they weren’t consulted – never forget that NZ Oil & Gas voted to give nothing to Pike River families
Rachel Stewart has once again proven why she is this country’s best columnist (it is so weird that she wasn’t included in this years media awards yet an over rated mummy blogger and Ben Mack eye-rollingly were) with this damning indictment on the NZ oil Industry…
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So what Gerry Brownshirt is saying is that there shouldn’t be any real oversight of our GSCB & SIS
Could Gerry go back to making the rebuild of Christchurch a nightmare rather than mouthing off about oversight his Government could never provide?
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Why Finlayson is being disingenuous with the truth over Whakatōhea Settlement
I was in Opotiki last month talking with local Māori about their treaty deal with the Crown and the bombshell revelation that the Crown rushed through the settlement is a huge local topic I can safely say shows the total disingenuous nature of Finlayson’s claims that he did nothing wrong.
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Delusional NZ Oil industry clutching at straws – they need to call Matthew Hooton
…that’s right folks! There must be some nefarious reason the new Government are shutting down oil that isn’t the overwhelming science that climate change demands immediate action!
Damn those communists with their facts and reason and more facts!