Cheaty of Waitangi 2026: Brown on Brown unfriendly fire while the Right escapes accountability
Waitangi Day should be about accountability, power, and honouring Te Tiriti. In 2026, it became something else entirely. As a…
unemployment
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How does Heather Duplicity-Allan and Jason Wells define recovery?
As unemployment climbs to its highest level in over a decade, sections of New Zealand’s right-wing media are attempting to…
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Unemployment at 10-year high — Free Market Cheerleaders say relax
New Zealand’s unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in over a decade, but the Government and free-market cheerleaders…
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Highest unemployment rate in a decade sparks Green Party warning
The Greens say unemployment at 5.4% is a tragedy for families, warning the National–ACT–NZ First Government is failing workers and communities.
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Unemployment hits 10-year high as NZCTU warns workers are paying the price
Stats NZ data shows unemployment at a 10-year high. NZCTU says workers, young people and Māori are bearing the cost of Government economic mismanagement.
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Unemployment hits 11-year high — where are the Green Shoots of Recovery?
Official data is now doing what political rhetoric could not — exposing the gap between economic promises and lived reality….
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The “free” market can’t even build a bloody hotel?!
Our crisis in construction reaches tipping point! According to recent reports in the media, New Zealand is no longer able to build and complete major projects…
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2017 – Ongoing jobless tally
All unemployment data from Statistics NZ should therefore be treated with caution. Unemployment is likely to be much higher than Statistics NZ figures indicate.
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The Mendacities of Mr English – Social Services under National’s tender mercies
English’s bland assertion that “government actually with a good record on addressing, in fact, some of the toughest social issues” is at variance with actual, real, mounting socio-economic problems in this country.
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2016 – Ongoing jobless tally and why unemployment statistics will no longer be used
This blogger previously reported how Statistics NZ recently implemented a so-called “revision” which would materially affect how unemployment stats were counted and reported;
