privatisation Archive

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  National XT

  
  
  
  The real reason Telecom called their new network XT? read more
  February 28, 2010 8:16 am - 8 Comments
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  Save ACC ads

  
  
  
  There is a Save ACC rally at Parliament on 16 February to fight back against National’s cutbacks. The good people at the CTU have got these ads running at the Sevens: read more
  February 5, 2010 2:32 pm - 8 Comments
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  Submitting in your summer holiday

  
  
  
  As I predicted last week, the Government has allowed only a very short time for submissions on the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill – submissions close on 12 February 2010. This is a truly appalling Bill – it’s packed full of measures that undermine local democracy and promote the privatisation of Auckland’s assets. read more
  December 20, 2009 3:55 pm - 9 Comments
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  Rampant Rodney rogers Auckland

  
  
  
  Rodney Hide’s third supercity Bill, the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill, reveals a hardcore anti-democratic agenda for privatisation. read more
  December 15, 2009 8:41 am - 9 Comments
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  Levy hikes prelude to privatisation

  
  
  
  If ACC is made to work like an insurance company, then it’s a lot easier to flog bits of it off to insurance companies some time in the future. Levy hikes and entitlement cuts will undermine public confidence in ACC and soften up public opinion for the privatisation agenda. read more
  December 11, 2009 10:35 am - 2 Comments
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  Gutting ACC – Employer disunity over ACC privatisation

  
  
  
  Conflicting statements from business lobbyists reveal that there is no consensus amongst New Zealand business about the privatisation of ACC. Business New Zealand has issued a statement supporting foreign-owned insurance companies being able to compete with ACC in workplace accident compensation. They are at loggerheads with the Employers and Manufacturers Association, who oppose ACC privatisation. read more
  October 22, 2009 7:22 pm - 7 Comments
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  Gutting ACC – the secret agenda

  
  
  
  Introduce a $50 or $100 excess on every ACC claim? Try selling that one to someone on the minimum wage! Go to your local A&E clinic to get your cut finger stitched and a quarter of your take home income disappears – even if the accident happened at work and was because the employer’s equipment was faulty. read more
  October 19, 2009 9:30 am - 18 Comments
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  Don’t shoot the messenger

  
  
  
  National’s tactics in the House this week, first from Health Minister Tony Ryall, and then from his Associate-Minister Jonathan Coleman (acting in Ryall’s absence) were to attempt to divert attention away from my questions about their privatisation agenda in Health by attacking the questioner (me). ‘Shooting the messenger’ is a classic case of the kind of [...] read more
  July 30, 2009 2:34 pm - 15 Comments
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  Outsourcing Health No Solution

  
  
  
  While the Government intends to increase DHB contracting with the private sector, we should instead first assess what capacity we have in the public sector; with proper logistics planning the public hospitals can do more work. Neither the Minister of Health nor the Ministry of Health has been able, under questioning at the Health Select Committee, [...] read more
  July 25, 2009 9:00 am - 58 Comments
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  Whitehead reveals Government’s Hand ??

  
  
  
  In an interesting move the Treasury seems to be foreshadowing the Government’s privatisation agenda by yesterday putting out a press release of their CE’s speech which calls for change in the public sector. Given how closely the speech aligns with the Government’s rhetoric around the public sector and their ideological commitment to the private sector, [...] read more
  July 21, 2009 2:35 pm - 12 Comments