About a month ago, I lodged an Official Information Act request with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The object of my inquiry was to attempt to discover just how many of the people applying for New Zealand Residency were actually on the long-term skill shortages list.
The speed with which the National Party have conned the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind to just hand over their civil rights is truly astonishing.
New Zealand’s Liquor Licensing Trusts are a hangover from the days of prohibition and the temperance movement but provide a possible template for cannabis law reform.
Rallies for Democracy that will be held around this country on Saturday 10th September, which link the TPPA to climate action, te Tiriti o Waitangi, social justice and workers’ rights, are the latest manifestation of that disquiet.
As the various lawyers and other legal types have jostled over the preliminaries ahead of the inquest into our son’s death while in the care of Waikato DHB 18 months ago, I’ve reflected on what a lucrative business mental health can be – for some.
If all RNZ and The Nation can muster is a regurgitation of vested interests from a bunch of candidates whose positions are well entrenched, then what’s the point of doing the debates in the first place?
The grim brutality of America’s genocidal war against Native American’s has been thrust into the spotlight this week by the violent protests in Dakota on behalf of an Oil giant against the local Standing Rock Sioux Tribe…
THE DEEP ANXIETY of the “Free Trade” lobby was on full display in this morning’s NZ Herald (7/9/16). Fran O’Sullivan, that most indefatigable of the Herald’s free trade advocates, was so moved by the uncertainty currently surrounding the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that she devoted a good chunk of her business column to the global fight against protectionism.
The National Party have lost total control of Parliament today in one of the worst cock ups I’ve ever seen.
When a National Party fuckwit like Peter Maguire can boast about enjoying the death of human beings through his Kiwisaver account and no one blinks, you know we as a Nation have become the problem.