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April 1, 2018 by Jan Rivers

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

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 […]

Filed Under: Democracy

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 […]

Filed Under: Democracy

October 27, 2017 by Jan Rivers

TPPA-11 negotiations: Not just about the housing speculators.

Corrected to restate the situation with respect to water management (21/11/2017)  lines have been struck out and added below. On paper the new government’s policy on trade agreements is really pretty good.  Free trade is needed, says the Labour Party, but must involve more consultation with more parties across society and address concerns about reining […]

Filed Under: Democracy Tagged With: bottled water, china FTA, fresh water, Jane Kelsey, national interest analysis, TPPA, trade agreements, Treaty of Waitangi case

October 17, 2017 by Jan Rivers

The Courage to Act Conference 3 & 4 November

Conference of the St Andrew’s Trust for the Study of Religion and Society The St Andrew’s Trust for the Study of Religion and Society finishes its 2017 programme with a mini-conference on the Courage to Act on 3 and 4 November. The dates mark 50 years since Lloyd Geering faced censure for speaking out on […]

Filed Under: Democracy

October 13, 2017 by Jan Rivers

Who could be who in the new cabinet?

Everyone is so preoccupied with the diversions of government formation that there’s little talk of the outcome and who might be in the new roles. The lack of informed speculation about the policy accommodations of both options is bizarre and the sight of a media crew waiting in the parliamentary complex lobbies to report on […]

Filed Under: Democracy, Election 2017, Employment, Government, Health, Housing, The Economy, The Environment Tagged With: Cabinet, Coalition negotiations, Green Party, labour government, Ministers, New Zealand First

September 27, 2017 by Jan Rivers

PollyAnna politics? The positive possibilities of the Red, Green and Black

    Update 28/2/17 to include policy synergy on Trade Agreements and Employment relations. Printable version of PollyAnna politics All bets are off for the formation of a new government. But everyone seems to want a say. Me too! The Sunday Star Times reiteration at the weekend of National’s “Moral Auhority” (sic) that had been […]

Filed Under: Democracy, Education, Elections, Employment, Government, Tertiary Education, The Economy, The Environment

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