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New Zealand’s government has struck an exclusive deal with fast food giant McDonalds. Young people receiving the unemployment benefit will be sent to jobs with McDonalds restaurants, and have their training subsidised by the taxpayer. Every...
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Age Concern New Zealand, an advocacy group for people over 65, says moves to cut tertiary education for senior citizens are ageist and counter-productive. “Restrictions that only apply to older people would be morally and economically...
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After successive governments campaigning on and then implementing “tough on crime” policies, New Zealand has achieved one of the highest per-capita incarceration rates in the developed world, second only to the United States. While crime rates...
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New Zeakand and Australian trade ministers met with their Pacific counterparts in Samoa yesterday to negotiate an “enhanced version” of the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) dubed “PACER Plus”. The negotiations have been...
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Research at Massey University has shown that agricultural workers have the highest incidence of leukaemia of all New Zealand occupation groups. The cause is expected to be exposure to pesticides. The Centre for Public Health Research has just released...
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The National government has made changes to the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme which allows overseas workers, mainly from the Pacific, to work in New Zealand temporarily in the horticulture and viticulture industries. Included is a change...
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ACT Party leader and Local Government Minister Rodney Hide has gained Cabinet approval to look into law changes that will strip city and district council spending back to ‘core services’ at the expense of cultural, environmental and social...
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On June 5, World Environment Day, hundreds of people “froze” across New Zealand, together at 1pm in public places people stopped moving and became human statues “stopping and standing for united action on climate change.” the flashmob type...
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Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, a Catholic aid, development and social justice agency, says it has both reservations and relief over the government’s 2009 Budget. The agency welcomed the the government maintaining benefits and family support at the...
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Westpac, the bank that has put clothing manufacturer Lane Walker Rudkin into receivership is saying there is no money to cover the redundancy entitlements or unpaid holiday pay of workers who have lost their jobs in the process, and ’someone...
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