Tech Booms, War and The Minimum Wage
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A tale of two eras, three cities and minimum-wage jobs
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The April 2014 Edition of Werewolf
So John Banks has been found guilty of knowingly signing off a fraudulent electoral return. It is an offence that carries a penalty – two […]
A footnote to begin with, to do with the big story about the carbon tax policy unveiled on the weekend by the Greens. If you […]
So much for those – me included – who had viewed the Internet Party as the chaotic, chronically disorganised plaything of Kim Dotcom, and unlikely […]
For those of us who – at the time – argued (vainly) in favour of Labour and the Greens campaigning as a bloc in election […]
So Labour MP Trevor Mallard has got himself in hot water with Speaker of the House David Carter for tweeting that Mr Speaker seemed to […]
So, thanks to our membership of the Five Eyes network, the GCSB spy agency has been supplying information on “persons of interest” in Afghanistan (at […]
If the government has an Achilles heel going into this election it is in housing policy, where affordability has become a huge problem for a […]
Hate to hurt Bill English’s feelings, but yesterday’s Budget looked like a document the Labour Party might have written – and no, that’s not meant […]
Yesterday’s street protests in New Zealand main city centres about the kidnap of 276 girls in Nigeria by the fundamentalist group Boko Haram were a […]
Once again, Winston Peters has failed to ignite on the launch pad. These days you have to go back almost 20 years – to the […]
After weeks of political scandal, National is understandably keen to seize on Budget week as its big chance to refocus election year entirely, around issues […]
If nothing else, the rash of stories about cash-for-access (to the National Party) and cash-for-exit (from New Zealand First) are giving us a clear sense […]
Like King Lear, Winston Peters and his courtiers in New Zealand First have chosen to demand a self-defeating expression of loyalty from prospective NZF candidates. […]
Now that synthetic cannabis is no longer legal, we can look back at our history with these products and see it as driven by New […]
So Justice Minister Judith Collins is going to have four or five days off work from her $268,000 a year (plus perks) job; apparently, she […]
Poor, poor Maurice Williamson. Why is everybody picking on him for simply doing his job….which appears to include ensuring that special treatment is afforded to […]
So after all the years of talk about “momentum” and claims that “significant progress” was being made – dutifully reported by the mainstream media – […]
As Labour’s shadow Finance Minister David Parker pointed out on RNZ this morning, New Zealand has led the way internationally by making the control of […]
As millions of dollars are spent on World War I and the Anzacs, the 150th anniversary of the wars at home are getting short shrift
There’s a void in our sense of nationalism, and Anzac Day is how we choose to fill it
In the Christchurch rebuild, will women miss out on most of the high-paying jobs?
Shane Jones has left Parliament in the manner to which we have become accustomed, with self interest coming in first and second, and with the […]
In films like A Separation and The Past, Asghar Farhadi has become Iran’s most celebrated cultural export. There’s a price.
Are the wheels falling off the Better Together campaign against Scottish independence?
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