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 […]

This is not a real article – fake news you could say – although the facts in it are real enough – but hold your judgment  and see what you think.  This article is a reversal of a recent one by NewsHub’s Patrick Gower about Labour’s proposed tertiary policy. I’ve changed the names and topics […]

This is a survey on Workplace Bullying posted on behalf of Ada Cecilia Magadia Umali, a Masters student in Public Policy at Victoria University of Wellington. Given what has been in the news about staff in emergency units in public hospitals recently this is a live issue but Ada is collecting data from across the […]

Warning: This article is about suicide and may be distressing to some readers. There has been much negative coverage of the proposed NZ Suicide Prevention Strategy since Mike King left the suicide advisory group a few months ago saying that it was “a master class in butt covering”.  We have recently heard that the government […]

These meetings are taking place in Wellington in the lead-up to the election.  Most, but not all, are specifically related to the election.  Information is provided on a best efforts basis and we suggest you check with the website to confirm the information supplied before committing to an event. End Child Poverty Political Forum: Wellington […]