Economy, Work, & Welfare Archive

  • Kevin Hague

    Firefighters deserve clean air in their workspace



    The Green Party are siding with the firefighters in their bid to have extractors installed at their workplaces. The DominionPost reported yesterday that the Fire Service was dragging its feet over the installation of diesel fume extractors at fifteen fire stations around the country. The extractors are expensive — $15,000 per unit — and the Fire [...] read more
    March 19, 2010 9:45 am - 6 Comments
  • frog

    Drunk in charge of a sickness benefit



    No amount of work-testing is going to get people who cannot work because of alcohol or drug dependency back into the workforce. All that will do is make them feel harassed and more likely to sink deeper into the faux refuge of their dependency. read more
    March 19, 2010 8:17 am - 8 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    Dodging Roger’s Bill



    Yesterday the National Party shot down Sir Roger Douglas’ dreams of returning New Zealand back to Victorian England by saying they will not support his Members’ Bill which would have re-introduced youth rates. It’s a rare piece of good news out of the Beehive, but let’s face it; the bill was a stupid idea to begin [...] read more
    March 18, 2010 12:51 pm - 11 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    The Roger Awards strike again



    Last night, the Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation operating in New Zealand, 2009 was awarded to ANZ. The Aussie-owned banks continue to rip us off, and the Green Party believes a bank is a worthy recipient of this award. read more
    March 12, 2010 1:33 pm - 8 Comments
  • David Clendon

    Govt understanding of the Tertiary sector: FAIL



    Oh dear. Anyone who felt a wee bit nervous when Steven Joyce became Tertiary Education Minister has a right to feel justified in their fears after his last couple of annoucements. First, we hear there are plans to link funding for tertiary institutions to the pass rates of their students from 2012. This is a terrible [...] read more
    March 10, 2010 3:19 pm - 26 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    International Women’s Day



    Happy International Women’s Day. Isn’t it exciting that the Minister of Women’s Affairs spoke at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York last week and supported the formation of streamlined UN gender entity in New York last week? Meanwhile back home at the other end of the world her Government has: Axed pay equity investigations [...] read more
    March 8, 2010 1:05 pm - 16 Comments
  • frog

    Stop grizzling Pat, and pay your fair share



    Lots of us work hard. But we pay our fair share of tax on what we earn. Why do property investors, whose income is derived from residential rents and capital gains, think they should get favours from the tax system that none of the rest of us get? read more
    March 7, 2010 5:51 pm - 49 Comments
  • David Clendon

    CRI Taskforce is refreshing



    The report of the CRI Taskforce released yesterday contains some refreshingly clear thinking about the best way to support science and research in New Zealand. read more
    March 5, 2010 9:01 am - 8 Comments
  • frog

    Growth versus Development



    Dr Dennis Meadows, one of the authors of Limits to Growth, spoke last year at the World Resources Forum in Davos. Reading Limits to Growth was what set me on the path to becoming a Green. Despite many false and ad hominem attacks on the research, it stands up very well in its forecast for humanity’s [...] read more
    March 5, 2010 8:55 am - 30 Comments
  • frog

    Mortgagee sales in Auckland – graph



    Sayeth the NZ Herald: the number of mortgagee sales – where a borrower’s property is sold by the [bank] – reached the highest levels since records began They’ve only been keeping records since 1994 though At the end of the article there are some numbers, which I made a graph of Manukau (orange line) is pretty [...] read more
    March 4, 2010 5:06 pm - 6 Comments
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