Waitangi Day 2017 – what really happened at Te Tii
Every year I’m jarred by criticism of Waitangi Day protests and the suggestion that we should all just get along and celebrate our beautiful nation. Read More
Author: Jan Logie
Improve workplaces, and address domestic violence
Last week the Productivity Commission put out a report about how to grow “weak labour productivity”. These views are being criticised as being straight out of the 1980s. What is a real problem is that we have a problem of productivity gains not being passed on to workers.
Yet another reason to end 2016 early
On Monday, the Civilian “reported” that the Government plans to pass legislation to end 2016 early. The Green Party will be supporting this bill. Just in the Read More
No data, no funding. That’s just wrong.
The National Government recently announced that they will be requiring community organisations to hand over client information to the government to get funding. Services such Read More
Report back from Hands Off Our Tamariki hui
This week I attended a hui in Otaki organised by Hands Off Our Tamariki about the proposed reforms to the Child Young Persons and their Read More
MSD and their investment approach
The Government talks about investment but there is no investment. It is not investment if it isn’t over the whole of life and if there Read More
Certainty needed for community services
This morning there have been reports in the media about community budgeting services caught in limbo as MSD delay over the review of services.
Domestic Violence – some advice for the media
For the purpose of this piece, I’m going to use Domestic Violence (DV) as a proxy for intimate partner violence. DV is not isolated to Read More
The Government’s Domestic Violence plan (Part Two)
In Part One, I critiqued the government’s domestic violence justice reforms. However, we will not get the results that we need unless we take a Read More
The Government’s Domestic Violence plan (Part One)
I want to acknowledge that I respect Minister of Justice Amy Adams and I think she genuinely wants to improve outcomes for victims of domestic Read More