We are facing critical struggles and challenges: ambulance workers are facing labour cuts, political clashes over Māori rights (again), and the economic strain on families. While the ACTs Ministry of Regulation runs up the wage bill.
Union coverage
Employment
- Staffing forces hospital department shutdown a day before Minister’s visit
- Police racism evidence ‘hard to hear’, officers say
- Seymour says Ministry of Regulation salaries ‘good value for money’
Politics
- Leaked tobacco lobbying plan for ‘political pressure’ shows tobacco giant got its tax cut wish
- Government announces new infrastructure agreements for councils
- PM Christopher Luxon’s speech on waste rubs councils the wrong way
- ‘Slippery slope to mediocrity’: mayors say well-being important as PM demands focus on basics
- More 5-year-olds starting school with low speaking skills – teachers
- Govt reviewing Russia sanctions law
Te Ao Māori
- Ngāti Toa’s challenge to David Seymour: Kill Treaty Principles Bill or front up
- Winston Peters casts doubt on PM’s position on Treaty Principles Bill
- Minister calls Judge ‘Communist’ in meeting with seafood lobby over Māori rights
- Council leaders vote to challenge new Māori ward polling rules
Economics
- Record full year profit sees Kiwibank outpace major rivals
- Transpower allows generators more water from hydro lakes to combat power shortage
- Here’s where the economic downturn has hit hardest
- More than a quarter of paid parental leave recipients get tax bill