Sue Bradford Archive

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  Hot Ukrainian Husbands from Chernobyl? - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  Last week the media reported a “Radio Rock” promotion which involved winning “hot chicks” as wives. As Sue Bradford commented in the media, this is not an isolated incident. As a compassionate and forgiving feminist I thought I would run a parallel competition for all those women out there seeking a “hot husband” . We [...] read more
  February 12, 2011 2:56 pm - 30 Comments
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  Supporting welfare justice with the Alternative Welfare Working Group - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  Yesterday I attended the Welfare Justice Alternative Welfare Working Group forum at Tätai Hono Marae in Auckland. The fora, which are being held in a diverse range of communities, are stimulating a positive vision of welfare without the narrow parameters and punitive agenda of the Government’s official Welfare Working Group. read more
  September 10, 2010 6:10 am - 43 Comments
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  More from inside the WWG welfare forum - by frog

  
  
  
  Paula Bennett: “This debate could get uncomfortable…it could get emotional…we may even see an ugly side of New Zealand…” And who created that ugly side, Paula? read more
  June 14, 2010 11:54 am - 73 Comments
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  Inside the welfare forum we were un-invited to - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  Today and tomorrow, the Welfare Working Group is hosting a forum on welfare issues to look at the big picture. It was advertised as open to the first 250 people who enrolled, and billed as bringing together “a diversity of opinions and experience”. Metiria and I immediately registered, along with one of our researchers, because [...] read more
  June 9, 2010 5:02 pm - 174 Comments
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  My speech at Blackball 2010 - by Kevin Hague

  
  
  
  Each year on Mayday, locals from the small West Coast town of Blackball organise a day of commemoration and celebration of the town’s past, and of political dialogue. For those of you who don’t know, the special importance of Blackball was that in 1908 miners from the town went out on strike to secure “crib [...] read more
  May 3, 2010 12:32 pm - 9 Comments
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  The smacking lobby ignores 8 positive reviews of S59 - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  After the latest report on Section 59 from the Prime Minister’s taskforce you would think that the media would stop calling the circus performers whose only interest is in keeping the circus going. The review included Dr Nigel Latta – someone who had voted against the law in the recent referendum. However, to his credit [...] read more
  December 8, 2009 7:13 pm - 23 Comments
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  ACC: Mirrors smashed and smoke dispersed - by frog

  
  
  
  Crisis! What crisis? ACC’s reserves are now above forecast by $739 million (5.4 percent), a further improvement over last month, said CTU Economist and Policy Director Bill Rosenberg. The main problem is the full funding of future claim payments which means ACC accounts will always be susceptible to large apparent variations which in reality may have little practical consequences for the ACC scheme. read more
  December 4, 2009 6:43 pm - 6 Comments
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  Can you trust Nick Smith? - by frog

  
  
  
  In February this year the Green Party heard a rumour that the review of ACC was being conducted solely by Treasury and Business New Zealand, so on 5 March we decided to put this to Nick Smith in the House. read more
  November 26, 2009 3:34 pm - 19 Comments
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  Sue Bradford says goodbye - by frog

  
  
  
  There is so much I could say and and want to say, but Wednesday was Sue Bradford’s day for a last word. Here is her valedictory speech. Kia kaha Sue! read more
  October 30, 2009 10:32 am - 93 Comments
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  Gutting ACC – compensation cuts for casual and seasonal employees - by frog

  
  
  
  Reducing compensation for casual and seasonal workers is to penalise those most in need of state support through a period of injury and rehabilitation – especially since they are the least likely to have reserves of savings to make up the shortfall. It’s just not fair! read more
  October 21, 2009 9:32 am - 1 Comment
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  Gutting ACC – it’s just not fair: Vocational independence - by frog

  
  
  
  This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing to explain National’s plans to gut ACC and highlight how unfair they are. One of the proposed changes is to vocational independence assessments.  These assessments are used by ACC to decide if an ACC claimant receiving weekly compensation for loss of earnings is [...] read more
  October 16, 2009 9:41 am - 9 Comments
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  The tsunami of child poverty - by frog

  
  
  
  New Zealand’s “tsunami of child poverty” came under the microscope at the recent Child Poverty Action Group hui at Manurewa marae. The hui was designed to build activism to end child poverty in Aotearoa. Activism is clearly what is needed to bring about change, was the consensus of speakers and participants. One of the overriding [...] read more
  October 13, 2009 5:30 pm - 147 Comments
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  Sue’s Truth: Jumping Sundays to be celebrated – all welcome - by Sue Bradford

  
  
  
  My regular column in the Truth Weekender this week recalls the liberation of Albert Park and the Jumping Sundays that followed its liberation, and looks forward to the 40th Anniversary event on September 19: Anyone remember Jumping Sundays in Albert Park? Forty years ago, several thousand young people – including Truth contributors Tim Shadbolt and [...] read more
  September 10, 2009 10:38 am - 22 Comments
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  Sue’s Truth: The referendum – the aftermath - by Sue Bradford

  
  
  
  The New Zealand Truth has become the Truth Weekender, so the publication both there and here of my regular article there will be a bit later in the week from now on. This week I focus on the aftermath of the child discipline referendum. Last week the result of the child discipline referendum came out. [...] read more
  August 28, 2009 11:55 am - 158 Comments
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  Stumbling and bumbling over ACC - by frog

  
  
  
  What a shambles the Government’s proposed changes to ACC’s clinical pathway for sexual abuse survivors is becoming. Without any consultation with the professional bodies representing psychotherapists or counsellors, ACC announced changes last week that would have required sex abuse survivors to relate their trauma to up to three different health professionals before they would receive [...] read more
  August 26, 2009 1:31 pm - 2 Comments
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  Bradford’s Truth: Referendum 09 - by Sue Bradford

  
  
  
  My regular New Zealand Truth column this week is about the child discipline referendum and the inadequacy of the legislative provisions regarding the wording of citizens initiated referenda questions: As I am sure everyone is excruciatingly well aware, we are right now in the middle of the postal referendum on the physical discipline of children. [...] read more
  August 12, 2009 2:05 pm - 168 Comments
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  Bradford’s Truth – SIS, the watchers and the watched - by Sue Bradford

  
  
  
  Hi, here’s my regular column for the New Zealand Truth – this time looking at the SIS involvement in my life – and mine in theirs: Last month the SIS released a heavily edited version of the file they kept on me from 1968 onwards. The file is evidently in two volumes, and 330 classified [...] read more
  July 1, 2009 10:11 pm - 21 Comments
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  Dazed and confused by referendum - by frog

  
  
  
  It seems I’m not the only one confused about the meaning of the question in the forthcoming referendum: Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand? I initially wondered if it was asking whether I should get the bash if I don’t look after the tadpoles properly. [...] read more
  June 18, 2009 9:44 am - 255 Comments
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  Bradford’s Truth – An MoU and a coup - by Sue Bradford

  
  
  
  My regular column in the New Zealand Truth appeared again today: A couple of weeks ago the Green Party signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National-led Government. Some of our supporters have been worried that perhaps we are selling our souls to the Nats in return for a few favours. However, I would like [...] read more
  April 23, 2009 12:24 pm - 43 Comments
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  Sue Bradford goes in search of National’s State Housing - by frog

  
  
  
  Green MP Sue Bradford  asks the Housing Minister: Does he see any opportunity to simultaneously deal with the job losses in the housing construction sector and assist the nearly 10 thousand people on the Housing New Zealand waiting list? The Minister manages to insult the former Minister, requiring an apology and withdrawal, then goes on [...] read more
  March 6, 2009 2:02 pm - 14 Comments