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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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The Employment Court has ruled that disability support workers are working when doing ’sleepover’ shifts and should be paid at least the minimum adult wage for all of that time. The Service and Food Workers Union and the Public Service...
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The Press is reporting that migrant workers made redundant are being forced out of New Zealand in droves or ending up destitute on the streets. Mike Bell, director of the Skilled Migrant Information and Resource Centre in Christchurch said the...
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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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