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The National Party made public its harsh welfare policies in August last year, resulting in a marked increase in calls to counseling service Lifeline by distressed welfare recipients when they won the November election. The policies were put on hold...
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Legislation making controversial changes to New Zealand’s publicly owned Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has passed its first reading in parliament by a vote of 69 to 53. The new law makes it harder for victims of sexual abuse to get...
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More than 500 motorcyclists roared through the small South Island city of Nelson on last weekend to give a clear message to local MP Nick Smith, who is also the minister of the publicly owned Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC). ACC levys for...
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Changes being proposed to New Zealand’s publicly owned Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) could block access to counselling for victims of sexual abuse. The changes will require sexual abuse victims to be diagnosed with a mental illness under...
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For over a week television viewers and newspaper readers in New Zealand -and even some overseas- were fed constant updates about Aisling Symes, the two year old girl who went missing from her West Auckland home on October 5th. Any missing person case...
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When Auckland bus drivers were at a standstill negotiating with their employer NZ Bus, a company owned by Infratil, they took a creative form of industrial action; doing everything their contracts required, like preforming safety checks on buses and...
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In an article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today a number of of senior health professionals call for New Zealand to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to combat “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. Dr...
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Department of Conservation workers and scientists from the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have been searching for phreatoicids (pronced “free-at-o-ik-ids”)
and found that the survival of these tiny, blind isopods...
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The Press reports that some central Christchurch retailers are claiming that customers will “abandon the city centre for suburban shopping malls” if the city council goes ahead with a plan to increase tree planting and cycle lanes. The reason? The...
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Green Party MP Sue Bradford has announced her resignation from parliament, effective as of the end of next month. According to the New Zealand Herald
The decision to leave had been “deeply painful” but she had become disillusioned after...
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