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The National government is looking at reforming New Zealand’s health care system in a way that would bring back health structures similar to the ones the party brought in during the 1990s. Doing so would be breaking an election promise, but it...
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Last weekend New Zealand was subjected to the somewhat bizarre spectacle of a twenty three hour long corporate sponsored variety show. TV3’s Big Nite In telethon raised $2 million for the KidsCan charity which provides school shoes, raincoats...
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It’s barely a week ago that ACT MP David Garrett was telling prison officers that by opposing the governments private prison agenda because of their experiences working in a privately run correctional facility that they “wouldn’t get offered...
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Oxfam is calling for a new approach to negotiations on the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) which are likely to be launched at the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting happening in Australia over the next few...
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The legislation to allow private contractors to run prisons is currently making its way through New Zealand’s parliament and the Law and Order select committee is hearing submissions. Last week one of those submissions came from a group of...
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Social Welfare minister Paula Bennett came under criticism when it was announced that single mothers receiving the Domestic Purposes Benefit would no longer be able to get a training allowance for university study, while Bennett, who has used her own...
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A report published by the Ministry for Economic Development earlier this week has shown that total energy emissions in 2008 were almost 4% higher than in 2007, predominantly due to a large increase in emissions from electricity generation. Dr Jim...
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The Child Poverty Action Group is alarmed at a new report published by the Ministry of Social Development that shows that in 2008 one in six New Zealand children lived in a household below the very lowest poverty lines. After allowing for housing...
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New Zealand Chief Justice Sian Elias has caused controversy after suggesting in a speech to the New Zealand Law Society that some prisoners be ordered free by the Government to help solve the problem of prison overcrowding and the safety and human...
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A new report has shown New Zealand to be the third fattest nation in the world, after the United States and Mexico. The Health Data 2009 report, published this month, shows each of the 30 countries monitored by the Organisation for Economic...
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