Steady on Stu – the Police and anti-depressants
If we are to expect Police to be able to do their job in the 21st Century, then legitimate care and concern for their mental health must be first step.
New Zealand Politics
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New Rules on the Global Economy
The government’s attempts to revive the Trade Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) have, as predicted, failed. Instead, the government is now putting its faith in negotiating numerous Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It’s more of the same, ignoring the lessons from the TPPA debacle.
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Time Capsule near Parliament turns out to be the National Party’s attitude towards abortion
With English as leader National’s slogan goes from ‘A Brighter Future’ to ‘A Darker Tomorrow’.
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Now outrage is building at historic abuse will Labour finally challenge the Public Service?
This rising wave of disgust at our Public Service may give Labour the courage to finally force it to radically reform.
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Bill English finally gets to be like Trump by attacking a Muslim who can’t fight back
Are we really this simple to allow Bill English to trash the ethical beliefs of Sonny Bill Williams to distract from questions about war crimes committed by his Government?
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Doug Myers, morality and business
Across the media Myers is being praised as a business leader and philanthropist yet he made money not through his own efforts but through using his massive inherited wealth to exploit the free-market economic policies he championed, as a leading light in the Business Roundtable, alongside the Labour Party of the 1980s. That wealth he gained was at the expense of middle and low-income New Zealanders who continue to struggle today to provide that triple lining to the pockets of the super wealthy.
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Remember sleepy hobbits – this is the media company who want a newspaper monopoly in NZ
…for Christ’s sakes people, Fairfax’s Australian owners are telling you to their face that their editorial position will be the one that benefits their corporate masters, not our fourth estate obligations. How much more clearly do you need it spelt out to you?
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6 months out from Election: National fading, Labour stalling, NZ First about to go nuclear & Green failure
6 months out from the 2017 election, how are each of the Political Party’s fairing?
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Will any NZ media dig to find out why Bill English had no idea about missile strikes?
Bill English was in Northland when the strikes were launched and the Northern Advocate immediately asked Bill for his comments on the strike, and English clearly had no idea that Trump was launching missiles at Syria which begs the question was our PM in the loop.
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Fast food companies seem to want a fight – I say bring it on
Fast food companies are trying to wriggle out of legal and contractual obligations around basic rights of workers to guaranteed hours and annual leave.