Why is it when New Zealand has a supposed rock star economy that the poor continue to take the rap? For thirty years employers have driven their workers ever harder for the same or
Return of the Hollow Men? In an article by ‘Karol’ in the Standard Org website, the similarities between a National orchestrated mudslinging campaign in 2005 and now are presented
In one of the Asterix the Gaul cartoon stories, by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, we are told the story of how the Romans defeated the British. Julius Caesar invaded Britain and
In the last 12 months we have had two stories in the news about promising professional rugby players whose careers have been disrupted or curtailed due to childhood illnesses assoc
Whether the departure of Shane Jones was a clever plot by National or the result of a man who felt the need to move on, the timing appears designed to cause the most harm to the La
They are wasted in the sense that we have so many people regularly underutilised and not allowed to fulfil their potential. Not in in the sense popularised by the current National
It is vital that there is balance in the relationships between employers, shareholders and employees; between retailers and wholesalers; between companies and customers; and betwee
Disenfranchised During the Labour leader election campaigns we regularly heard about the ‘800,000 voters who didn’t vote’. That Labour’s job was not to appeal to the disenchanted i
Working for Families (‘WFF’) is failing. It is failing its recipients, their employers, the Government, and the poor who should be receiving it, but aren’t. Don’t get me wrong, WFF