2025 Taskforce Archive

  • frog

    Our advantage is low wages, says Bill English - by frog



    Remember all that talk of “catching up with Australia“? It was a big part of Nationals rhetoric in the 2008 election, followed by the Don Brash 2025 Taskforce, etc? Bill English: …over the next few years New Zealand’s advantages would become more apparent. “One is the wage differential. We have a workforce that is better [...] read more
    April 9, 2011 10:08 am - 36 Comments
  • David Clendon

    The Ghost of Budgets Past - by David Clendon



    Like someone watching a bad zombie movie, we have now been subjected to the unnerving sight of Don the Undead emerging from the darkness, rattling the chains of thoroughly discredited twenty-five year-old Treasury advice, and offering a prescription for putting the Government on a diet that would make a supermodel blush. I’m talking about the first [...] read more
    December 2, 2009 1:57 pm - 9 Comments
  • Sue Kedgley

    2025 Taskforce a tragi-comic farce - by Sue Kedgley



    Hard to believe and tragic that Don Brash and his cohorts would seriously recommend REDUCING minimum wage rates back to 1999 ratios, and reinstating the youth minimum wage. read more
    December 1, 2009 4:55 pm - 96 Comments
  • frog

    Telecom’s great wealth transfer - by frog



    The 2025 Taskforce need to spend less time pondering digging up the Doc estate and more time looking at how Australian workers enjoy better workplace protections than their New Zealand counterparts – especially during the 1990s when Australian workers pulled far in front of their New Zealand counterparts. read more
    September 2, 2009 1:41 pm - 32 Comments