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Make a submission in support of fairness at work

Parliament’s Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee has allowed only a very short timeframe for people to make submissions on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill Read More

Australian Green election result

I was lucky enough to visit Melbourne last week to check out a very impressive Green campaign. There were Green signs everywhere reading “This time Read More

NZ MPs give some parliamentary tips to Tonga

I'm just back from a useful parliamentary trip to Tonga. I was one of five NZ MPs there to explain how we did things in our Parliament.

Woods is the wrong man to investigate dodgy investigations

The Greens didn't go along with the parliamentary vote for three new part-time members of the Independent Police Conduct Authority. This was because one nominee was Richard Woods, the head of the SIS from 1999 to 2006, the man who presided over the Ahmed Zaoui fiasco.

OAG’s report on defence fraud

The Auditor-General has come out with a very disturbing report on the NZ Defence Forces defrauding the United Nations over accommodation payments for NZDF seconded Read More

Refugees won’t be booking cruise liners to NZ

John Key made millions by trading currencies, but he doesn’t seem to have a good grasp of business principles when it comes to the economics of boat people coming to New Zealand.

JB Hi Fi picket

Arguments employers used during the recession to stop wages rises don’t hold much water now. So it is not surprising there is now a small Read More

UKUSA spying agreement continues to baffle

I’ve long been trying to find out what New Zealand has signed up to under the UKUSA electronic spying agreement. It has been a somewhat Kafkaesque exercise because the government wouldn’t directly admit the existence of the agreement, or whether New Zealand had signed up.

Next Harbour crossing must include rail, walking and cycling options

The Aucklander reported today that the Minister of Transport has asked consultants to conduct a study into whether the next Harbour crossing for Auckland should Read More