The Christchurch clothing manufacturer Lane Walker Rudkin has been put into receivership and some 470 jobs jobs are on the line. Given that...
The Christchurch clothing manufacturer Lane Walker Rudkin has been put into receivership and some 470 jobs jobs are on the line. Given that...
Despite getting a nice old government subsidy to implement the 'nine day working fortnight', Fisher and Paykel have gone ahead and s...
I listened to a little talkback radio yesterday which, like most of the media yesterday, went into Anzac Day overdrive. 'Lest we forget...
Russel Norman is proving to be very comfortable with political pomposity. The co-leader of the Green Party is standing in the Mt Albert elec...
Everytime I write about Kiwi FM a number of critical missiles are launched my way and my most recent post was no exception - although this t...
Despite laying off 47 workers (see previous post on Summit), the National Government have agreed to pay Summit Wool Spinners a subsidy in o...
The new radio ratings confirm, yet again, that Kiwi FM continues to broadcast to, well, no-one. No, that's not exactly true. It's b...
It's kind of ironic that my previous post was about the New Zealand prison system mostly locking up the working class and the poor - the...
Peter Sharples, co-leader of the reactionary Maori Party, is in a huff with Labour. And he's getting all high and mighty about it. The r...
There was an alarming little poll published a few days ago. It was alarming because it appears to indicate that many New Zealanders have ye...
The Alliance Party has rightly condemned the Green Party's cosy little deal with the National Party. Alliance national spokesperson Vict...
Given that the Green Party has so thoroughly embraced the 'free market', it comes as no surprise that its prepared to make deals wit...
Some interesting information has come to light on the Ellerslie International Garden Show. While Christchurch Mayor Sideshow Bob Parker was ...
I said some weeks ago that Treasury's predictions of an eventual worst-case 7.2 percent unemployment rate was unrealistically optimistic...
I've been leaving the Dave Henderson soap opera alone for a while now - maybe I've been suffering from Henderson fatigue. But, for t...
Paul Watson from the National Distribution Union (NDU) has applauded the decision of an Otago company to implement the nine day working fort...
I've been checking out Davy-boy Cunliffe on Twitter. He's got a lot to say. The latest comments from Labour's Finance spokespers...
The protests presently occurring in London are anti-capitalist protests. Even the BBC are describing them as such. Out in the New Zealand b...