Here's a couple of photos from the protest outside the 'Job Summit' yesterday. They are taken from the Socialist Aotearoa blog ...
A LITTLE DOWNSIZING WITH ROB FYFE!
Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe will be making his views very clear at John Key's little get-together. Indeed he has already started to mak...
HYPOCRITICAL MEDIA INDIGNATION
Lt Gen Jerry Mateparae, the Defence chief, is probably feeling a little cheesed off right now. The mainstream media have made it sound like ...
GRAHAM HODGES - HE'S A REAL BANKER!
The ANZ made a profit of nearly one billion dollars last year. The country's biggest bank reported a $990 million net profit after tax i...
WAYNE BOYD HAS A JOB FOR YOU - IT'S IN MANILA!
Telecom chairman Wayne Boyd will be sharing his thoughts on employment at John Key's 'Job Summit.' Boyd might have to deftly sid...
JOAN WITHERS IS CONCERNED ABOUT KIWI JOBS! SERIOUSLY, SHE REALLY IS!
Another business big wig who'll be expressing concern about jobs at the 'Jobs Summit' is Joan Withers, the chief executive of Fa...
JOHN BONGARD WANTS TO SAVE KIWI JOBS! BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
Another one of the business big wigs attending John Key's 'Jobs Summit, is Fisher & Paykel chief executive John Bongard. He'...
WE WON'T PAY FOR YOUR CRISIS!
This Friday night there will be a protest outside the Pacific Events Centre in Manukau, the venue for John Key's 'Crisis Summit'...
THE FYFE AND LITTLE SHOW - IT'S A SELLOUT!
As Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe and Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union National Secretary Andrew Little will both have major role...
LITTLE STANDARD
Columnist Chris Trotter was recently urging the socialist left to stop wasting its time and get in behind the Labour Party and, more specifi...
HANOVER TRY TO RECOVER MONEY
Hanover Finance have put up for sale Dave Henderson's Five Mile Village project near Queenstown. More accurately, they have put up for s...
A POOR STANDARD OF POLITICS
The Standard is another pro-Labour Party blog. It claims to be a voice for workers: 'The New Zealand labour movement used to have its o...
CORPORATE EARTH HOUR
Christchurch mayor Bob Parker is always on the lookout for positive media coverage and he was back in The Press newspaper on Saturday. This...
CLUELESS IN A CRISIS
I guess there's a grim satisfaction in watching neoliberal politicians having to resort to state interventionism in order to try to salv...
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS EXPLAINED
Click on the graphic to bring up the large version. Clever comic strip, I think.
SMALL CHANGE
A few weeks ago Business New Zealand chief executive chief Phil O'Reilly was on TV1's Breakfast talking about the need for 'wor...
THE MAORI PARTY CAN'T BE TRUSTED
It was interesting to note the mainstream media's response to Prime Minister Key getting jostled at Waitangi last Thursday. The general ...
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: THE RICH CAN PAY FOR THE CRISIS!
The 8th World Social Forum concluded in the Brazilian city of Belem on Monday February 2. The six-day anti-globalisation forum was organised...
SIDESHOW BOB AND THE BOY RACERS
My two readers may recall that last year I criticised Sideshow Bob for political grandstanding over the issue of boy racers. It was apparent...
TANCZOS CRITICISES THE GREEN PARTY
Former Green MP Nandor Tanczos has started up a blog. It's called Dread Times , and in one of his first posts he takes a bit of a confus...
NO HAPPY HOUR FOR HENDO
As well as various property ventures, Dave Henderson has also dabbled in the wine industry. It will come as no surprise for readers to learn...