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April 19, 2018 by Jan Rivers Leave a Comment

Paradise Lost – Paradise regained

Hold the date:  Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd 2018 at St Andrews on the Terrace. In developing the topic for this weekend we have visited the themes around the Winter Soltice, Matariki and the lecture series and subsequent publication  of “The Greening of Christianity” by the Rev. Professor Sir Lloyd Geering. In these […]

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April 19, 2018 by Jan Rivers Leave a Comment

Can’t get no satisfaction from the NZ Herald

Just feeling failed by the NZ Herald and its ability to call out supposed lies with impunity. Here is the correspondence in relation to a recent complaint. Most unsatisfactory but a waste of time to go on or not? Any advice?  The Herald’s responses to my email are in red.  I note that Mike Hosking […]

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April 16, 2018 by Jan Rivers Leave a Comment

Participate in a submission to the Tax Working Group

Participate in a submission to the Tax Working Group

Would you like to be part of the current tax policy debate without needing to know the difference between Pigou and Tobin? Think base erosion sounds like something you do to protect your floors? News Website Scoop Media and Public Engagement Projects (PEP) invite you to share your issues, ideas and perspectives on the NZ […]

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April 4, 2018 by Jan Rivers 7 Comments

Press complaint about NZ Herald article “How Labour just lost the 2020 election”

This seemed like a worthwhile way to spend an hour or so. Will the NZ Herald be willing to correct a completely inaccurate article? ( Not that this kind of response wouldn’t be legitimate on any day of the week for a dozen or more articles with similarly careless and inaccurate reporting – but this […]

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April 1, 2018 by Jan Rivers Leave a Comment

Book Review: National Enterprise – The development of the public corporation Ernest Davies Gollancz 1946

Book Review: National Enterprise – The development of the public corporation  Ernest Davies Gollancz 1946

Managing services and infrastructure for the public good. The recent scandal with FaceBook and Cambridge Analytica has shown what happens when the controllers of capital are able to decide how things should run to benefit them. Economic dominance and first mover advantage coupled with a lack of regulation has captured the public’s data and used […]

Filed Under: Democracy, Government Tagged With: Acquisitive Society, Ernest Davies, Fabian Society, Left Book Club, National Enterprise, Public ownership, state owned enterprises

December 18, 2017 by Jan Rivers

Was the China FTA a positive for New Zealand?

As the  NZ government is considering signing up to the TPPA next year it might be worth looking at the effects of trade deals already in place. Although the Australian Closer Economic Relationship (CER) agreement pre-dates the 10 year old China FTA has wrought the greatest recent change. We are advised by both major political […]

Filed Under: Democracy, Government, Housing, The Economy, The Environment Tagged With: china FTA, Dutch disease, employment, Inequality, private debt, speculative housing, steel certification, TPPA

December 18, 2017 by Jan Rivers

33 Theses for an economics reformation

On 12 December 2017, Rethinking Economics and the New Weather Institute published ’33 Theses for an Economics Reformation’ to mark 500 years since the Catholic Reformation. The Theses, which were endorsed by students and economists and fixed with blutack 🙂 to the doors of the London School of Economics, are reproduced below. The action was taken as the […]

Filed Under: Democracy

December 4, 2017 by Jan Rivers

The New Zealanders involved in Brexit

The New Zealanders involved in Brexit

Usually New Zealand is proud to own its overseas sons & daughters – sports people, business leaders, arts and culture sector successes and even one-time politicians – with endless media coverage, and the news arising from the visit last week of the UK’s Trade Secretary Liam Fox to New Zealand for trade talks for a […]

Filed Under: Democracy Tagged With: Brexit, Crawford Falconer, European Union, Free Trade, Jolyon Maugham, Legatum Institute, Lockwood Smith, MFAT, TPPA

November 28, 2017 by Jan Rivers

TPP / CPTPP. Will consultation be better than the TPP National Interest analysis?

Trade Minister David Parker has taken up the opportunity to do what the Trade Ministers of TPPA countries agreed to at the APEC conference and offered New Zealanders the opportunity for a consultation and better understanding on the TPPA prior to it being signed.  He has said it is unlikely this will affect the outcome […]

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November 15, 2017 by Jan Rivers

Come on Transdev! Workers are worthy of their hire

Wayne Butson was interviewed this morning on Radio New Zealand about his members working terms and conditions being threatened by Transdev/Hyundai Rotem, the contract managers at the Wellington Rail Network. The RMTU union boss described the quandary the workers are in and about the employers unwillingness to negotiate. Here is the background. For a number […]

Filed Under: Democracy Tagged With: collective bargaining, railways, RMTU, trains, Transdev, unions wellington, working conditions

November 13, 2017 by Jan Rivers

Housing the Homeless: the value of a strategy

At the recent Community Housing Aotearoa conference Nan Reed the CEO of the US National Alliance to end Homelessness spoke about the impact of having a joined up strategy, goals and measures for ending homelessness in the United States. Despite the lack of social services and a legal mandate for social care (except for war […]

Filed Under: Democracy Tagged With: Henry Reed, homelessness, homelessness strategy, housing policy, Naming of Parts, Nan Roman, National Alliance to end Homelessness

November 8, 2017 by Jan Rivers

Open Letter to David Parker on the TPPA-11 negotiation

Kia ora David, Congratulations on your new Ministerial roles and for taking a decisive approach to protecting housing from overseas speculators in case the TPPA-11 comes into effect. I would like to raise with you some of my concerns that the current approach to the TPPA does not adequately reflect the direction outlined in Labour’s […]

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@alans_world Yes my early years were spent noticing disabled ex soldiers 1&2 WW survivors (& later Korea, Cyprus) including relatives who were withdrawn, angry and/or disabled altho' grandad who was in the cavalry in Egypt had plenty of stories.

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@alans_world This is what JB Priestley said in 1933 when his regiment met for dinner and several men were to ashamed to come attend as they could not bear to be seen in the clothes they would have had to wear. #Homefitforheroes #anzacday pic.twitter.com/FkNr…

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@pjsmellie @pv_reynolds @NewsroomNZ Wind is expensive but isn't solar failing to get a foothold because the generation model is predicated on large generating plant & the wrong incentives are in place for solar to succeed.

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@kahuranginp @transparency_a1 So about $1000 profit per NZ resident per year heads to Australian banks. This is about 14% of the total income tax take of NZ govt for no benefit.

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@imaginemyrelief @farmgeek Yes indeed. There is an interesting article here about this & in the comments one on Germany's valiant experience of renewables newsroom.co.nz/2018/….

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@pjsmellie @pv_reynolds @NewsroomNZ Internationally subsidies to extraction are huge (10 *) compared with those to fossil fuel consumption. theguardian.com/envi…

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@pjsmellie @pv_reynolds @NewsroomNZ Selling fossil fuel generated electricity at the same price as renewable is an effective subsidy to the former. Per Kilowatt renewable is much cheaper to generate.

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@MacFinlay @onya_nz Most of us wouldn't get to bore our best buddies with drivel like this let alone hog space in the national media & presuppose get paid to boot. nzherald.co.nz/index…

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@tommundaycs Partly true but "my editor would stop me if I wrote about austerity" said 12 NZ journos to me as core gov't spending in NZ fell from 33 to 28% of GDP.

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@MsWonderOutLoud @easegill . @OwenJones84 in the UK has written about deligitimising the Labour opposition. Are we are seeing the same here of the govt? Orchestrated, dishonest & malign. medium.com/@OwenJone…

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