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
When the Treasury persuaded Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson to back their respective neo-liberal ‘briefings to incoming government’ reports, they included the ideas that educatio
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
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
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
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
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