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Back in April, the results of the 2008 Quality of Life survey were released. They showed that Christchurch was New Zealand’s safest city, with less than 100 crimes per 100,000 people. They survey also showed that, despite those facts, 64.5 per...
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Thirty eight workers at an Open Country Dairy processing plant in Waharoa, Waikato walked off the job at 6pm on Wednesday night beginning an eight day long strike. Despite it being a large export industry, strikes in the dairy sector are rare. The...
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The new $4.9 million Mt Roskill fire station was opened in Auckland on Friday. Yet at the opening ceremony Prime Minister John Key was drowned out with shouts of “One, Two, Three, A Wage Rise Mr Key”, as 200 fire fighters protested...
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Photos of New Zealand soldiers posing with a 2000 pound bomb were released to the media last weekend. The soldiers had written “Dear Taleban, enjoy this” on the bomb as well as adorning it with a sticker advertising energy drink maker...
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New Zealand First held its annual general meeting last weekend and affirmed it will contest the 2011 election. The party missed out on parliamentary representation last year achieving 4% of the vote, short of the 5% required to gain seats without...
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Social development minister Paula Bennett made headlines in July when she released private information on two women who had criticised the governments welfare policies, opening up a furry of attacks on right-wing talkback radio and the blogosphere,...
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Like many developed nations, New Zealand has an aging population, by 2031 those aged over 65, the current retirement age, will be equivalent to 35 percent of the working age (15-64) population. A new Department of Labour report estimates that by 2036...
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New Zealand Herald social issues reporter Simon Collins writes that “Employers are rushing to gain new $5000 subsidies for young workers” and why wouldn’t they? The new ‘Job Ops’ scheme provides $3000 upfront, and $2000 after six...
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Religion has never played a huge roll in New Zealand’s politics, an explicitly religious party has never been elected to parliament. The closest they have come was when the Christian Democrats changed their name to ‘Future New...
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Hundreds of workers throughout New Zealand are taking action and building momentum in their struggle against Telecom NZ’s decision to outsource its network maintenance to VisionStream.
VisionStream is an Australian company which operates on a...
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