Saturday, March 02, 2013

Ecuador’s New Deal: Reforming and Regulating the Financial Sector

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Please hit the link. This should become the NZ Labour Party financial sector policy. Ecuador’s New Deal: Reforming and Regulating the Fina...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

The need for democracy

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Instead of the mantra; “Discipline, discipline, discipline”, unions, parties and other political organisations of the left should march to t...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Discipline or Debate? Centralism or Democracy?

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Calls for "discipline" when a political party is caught up in a fractious debate about policy or organisational matters almost alw...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Historic Labour Conference Empowers Members

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Labour Party members could not have come away from last weekend's Conference anything but elated and energised. Despite the best efforts...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

A Storm in a T-blog?

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A Labour stalwart is feeling quite confused and put-upon after querying (in an internal email newsletter) the breakfast speech made on 11 Ju...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Strong unions can be good for business

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Strong unions have a definite place in making a better world. Not only do unions play a vital role in collectively bargaining for decent wag...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Equality is the new “big idea”

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“Equality is better for everyone” is the “big idea” that has been sweeping through policy and political circles since the 2009 publication o...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Better Wages are Better

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Thirty years of pro-business, ‘neo-liberal’ economic policies have not created the gains in wealth and prosperity that were promised. Instea...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Defending public services

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First Published in SFWU magazine Our Voice Water and electricity provision; road, rail, air and sea transport; hospitals and schools; faci...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Seats a Supercity Smokescreen

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The furore about Maori seats on the new Auckland 'supercity' council, while a vital issue in its own right, has served to create a s...
Friday, July 03, 2009

Long live the commons!

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Tariana Turia believes that Labour’s seabedandforeshore legislation was the "the single biggest land nationalisation statute enacted in...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Skyla - born earlier today

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Skyla - 9lb 8ozs of joy (or trouble) - born 9.15am, March 13, 2009. First child of my eldest daughter Carissa - 2nd grandchild of Len (proud...