Press release The Public Service Association welcomes the decision by FIRST Union to join the campaign for a New Zealand Wellbeing Commitment, a policy proposal that all New Zealanders should receive services like healthcare, education, public transport and broadband internet for free. […]
UPDATE: On 17 August polling day was moved to 17 October 2020. When MBIE’s Labour Force Market fact sheet was released on 6 August 2020 the Labour government was cock-a-hoop as it showed the country had only 4% unemployment. That was great […]
The resignation of Westland Milk Products chief executive Toni Brendish almost a year to the day the company was sold to Chinese conglomerate Yili makes a mockery of assurances that there was no conflict of interest in top management preparing the company for sale in 2019, says Chris Leitch, leader of the Social Credit Party.
The suggestion of putting border exemptions up for auction so large companies can bring in overseas executives and key workers is naïve and totally unfair,” says June Ranson, chair of the New Zealand Association of Migration and Investment (NZAMI).
At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for monetary reform that became known as the Chicago Plan. It envisaged the separation of the monetary and credit functions of the banking system, by requiring […]
If one has something published in The Lancet then then it is good as gold. Thoroughly checked, reviewed and checked again. The Lancet does not publish any old hare-brained tosh. And if it does, as happened in June 2020 – then the […]
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“Billions of dollars… were just created by the Reserve Bank…We owe it to nobody, we’ve created it… and we write most of it off…”. Jim Bolger, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, speaking on 15 July 2020. It’s a common misconception that […]
Auckland: Kiwi start-up, COVID-19 Vaccine Corporation (CVC), has secured $488,000 interim funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) COVID-19 Innovation Acceleration Fund to begin development of a COVID-19 vaccine for both New Zealand and the rest of the world. […]
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Nobel Laureate and Stanford University biophysicist professor Michael Levitt was interviewed on Radio New Zealand on 19 April 2020 where he said covid-19 is worse for people aged 65 and over. His modeling on the spread of covid-19 was proved to be […]