wealth inequality Archive

  • Keith Locke

    Citizen engagement at Occupy Auckland - by Keith Locke



    I got a buzz out of visiting the Occupy Auckland camp again this sunny afternoon. Seventy tents have mushroomed on the grass in Aotea Square  right next to the Town Hall. Hopefully the Auckland Council will continue to tolerate the camp as a venue for citizen engagement with politics. It’s not just the ‘occupiers’ discussing [...] read more
    October 25, 2011 4:43 pm - 17 Comments
  • Keith Locke

    British riots: addressing the “why” - by Keith Locke



    David Cameron’s answer to the British riots seems to be better policing. No doubt there could be improvements, but they shouldn’t be measures that hurt ordinary citizens, like the PM’s suggestion that there could be state controls on social networking. If we really want to prevent such destructive rioting we have to address the “why” [...] read more
    August 12, 2011 4:31 pm - 30 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
  • frog

    Being productive on the minimum wage - by frog



    The Employers and Manufacturers Association rather unsurprisingly came out criticising the Greens campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage. The part of their argument that I found the most incongruent was their claim on National Radio this morning that “employees should be paid according to their productivity”. I would have thought that in your [...] read more
    October 20, 2008 10:14 am - 39 Comments