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MP pay and deeper inequality issues
The Green Party’s announcement of a policy to link MP’s pay to the median income in New Zealand ‘to be a part of the solution to inequality’ has provided reactions that show
Read MoreNot in my back pocket
The neo-liberal culture of greed has become so ingrained in New Zealand society that left of centre politicians fear to suggest policies that would reduce the wealth or income gap
Read MoreAmbulance at the bottom of the cliff
We regularly hear our Government’s policy for poverty and its related consequences as using an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. I would like to take the analogy a little furth
Read MoreThe policy that dare not speak its name
With apologies to Oscar Wilde, the National Government currently is avoiding a policy that dare not speaks its name, and certainly is considered an offensive world in ‘better circl
Read MoreCreating a NZ we think we already have
Just marketing Last year, Kiwis were upset when a British newspaper described our ‘100% Pure’ image as false, siting reports about the quality of water in our rivers and around our
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- Media release: Scrap the minimum wage and replace it with the living wage
- Media statement: Child poverty bill doesn’t address cause: Inequality
- Media statement: Response to Interim report from the Tax Working group
- Media Statement: Fonterra, home of the poor-performance bonus
- Why something needs to be done smartly about the homeless
- Press statement: Economic rights are human rights: It’s time to legislate
- DROP THE CAP TO CLOSE THE INEQUALITY GAP
- Economist Jeffrey Sachs warns of fraying societies
- Plunket’s troubles highlight wider executive pay problem
- Spierings’ case shows excessive CEO pay isn’t justified