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BREAKING: The Employment Court has found that four brave Uber drivers who filed a misclassification case are employees and not contractors, granting them minimum wage, guaranteed hours, sick days, the right to a union and to bargain, and the right to challenge an unfair dismissal
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The average Auckland rent is 87% of the take-home pay of a minimum wage worker (without Kiwisaver or student loan payments), leaving behind $82 to cover food, water, electricity, internet, transport etc. Truly we are living in a era of Victorian inequality.
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Fletcher Building's after-tax profit has jumped 42% to $432 million. Over the last year, 22.7% of the inflation experienced in Aotearoa has been from the increasing cost of building a house. Their profits are our inflation.
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Don't really know what 3 waters is but based on its opponents I conclude that it is probably good
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Sick of hearing about the fash camping trip to welly? Workers at CHEP in Penrose are holding a hard picket (nothing in, nothing out) fighting for the living wage! These essential workers make the pallets that move goods around the country and worked all through pandemic. Heroes!
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Sir Michael Cullen memorial capital gains tax, let's do this
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13 construction workers died on the job in 2019 and not a word in Parliament. First police officer killed in 20 years and the entire National Party are wearing lapels in his honour. We don’t need a shitty hashtag to tell us cop lives matter, the ruling class remind us everyday.
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Taxes are how we fund a decent society. National wants less of that.
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The EU wrote to the Malaysian Ministry of Int'l Trade and Industry suggesting rubber glove factories operate 24/7. While the glove industry is an essential service, Malaysia is in lockdown. Workers are already doing 14-16 hour days. Is this not a demand for forced labour?
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Shame on
@TVNZ
for leading their reporting of the possible Ihumātao resolution by negatively highlighting its $30 million price tag. Fletchers, who blocked this resolution for years, took $66 million in wage subsidies before cutting 1500 jobs. Where's the moral equivalence?
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Young people aren’t going from lower tax NZ to higher tax Australia to escape the threat of higher taxes on the wealthy. They’re going because higher taxes on the wealthy have made Australia an easier place to live.
OPINION: The problem for those who wish to build an economic system based on increasing taxation and regulation is that Kiwis retain the ability to leave.
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Fletchers collected $66.3 million in wage subsidies, didn't pass that all on to workers and then fired ~1000 workers. We've already paid them the cost associated with any Ihumatao deal.
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Mercury Energy's profits have increased 232% in the last year while the rest of the country has endured a cost of living crisis. CEO Hawksworth got a $27K pay increase, up to $2.07 million. Time for a windfall profit tax.
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still don't understand why it takes six months to get sick leave. workers don't get sicker after six months of starting a job. they get sick when they catch something, and if they haven't got to the six month mark then they're bringing that into the workplace.
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The subtext of Chris Bishop et al saying 'NZ is last in the vaccine queue' is that he means the queue of white countries. To August 2021 75% of doses had gone to only 10 countries, while only 4% of Africans had received a dose.
We need a
#PeoplesVaccine
, not a vaccine queue.
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Today I graciously accept my new role as Auckland Transport CEO. Tomorrow we lift bus driver wages to $28 an hour and end unpaid book-off times. The next day we launch our own Council-owned bus company. On Friday we remove fares. Saturday, free e-bikes for CSC card holders...
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The whinging paternalism of 'no farmers no food' isn't a credible threat, given our farmers export 95% of our dairy, 87% our beef and 94% of our lamb. No farmers, no exports. Meh ok I'm fine with that.
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NZ Bus, which has a 36% share of our national bus sector, was sold for $300 million in 2018. We could nationalise our whole bus sector for less than the cost of the 21km Mill Rd link, then get to work on improving working conditions, reducing fares and decarbonising transport.
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I’m calling on Countdown to reinstate the 10% covid wage premium for supermarket workers and for Foodstuffs to follow suit, retweet if you agree
@FIRST_Union
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who put aotearoa on our passports? the wind whispers his name
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Meridian has just reported a $236m (55%) jump in after-tax profit to $664m. The four power companies that have now reported their results this year have seen profits increase 133 percent, from $631m to $1.47 billion.
This is a windfall, let's tax it like one.
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Hmmm ok well then who was our best communist prime minister then
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Imagine if jacinda had legalised weed then finished today's announcement by lighting up fat one
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Achievement unlocked! Fourteen days in the iso with a rambunctious four month old complete, in a few hours he will meet his grandparents for the first time and his mum and I can finally take a rest.
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Other things we should be going hard and early on:
- resettling afghan refugees
- nationalising buses and power companies
- building 50,000 more state houses
- taxing wealth
- paying our teachers and nurses properly
- establishing community gardens *everywhere*
What else???
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Exciting news finally starting to break about what's been achieved in collective bargaining at Countdown. Average pay increase of 12% for a workforce of close to 20,000 people. Is this the country's first $100 million private sector wage deal?
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If you hated the woke left, wait til you meet the naturopath right.
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Luxon's time in Moscow was post-perestroika, after the hundreds of billions of social wealth that socialism had created was stolen by the vultures of capitalism. That sense of abject failure and misery he witnessed was classic capitalist exploitation.
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Labour's min wage increase will see full time MW workers receive another $2012.03 in the pocket per year. National's tax cut would give MW earners another $112 in the pocket per year, and Luxon wouldn't even confirm whether he would raise MW.
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Now that jacinda has been awarded $210k from Harvard on top of her 500K as PM she might just be able to enter the Auckland housing market, goes to show hard work pays off
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Auckland Council has recorded a record $1.95b surplus, with revenues climbing $235m to $3.8b. Remind me again why we can't implement fares free transport, which AT estimated would cost $236m a year (including increased demand)?
#efeso4mayor
@efesocollins
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Intercity is owned by renowned private equity corporate raiders KKR through a Cayman Islands shell company, registered in a small building that is apparently home to thousands of multinationals. This is not a transport policy.
InterCity buses better than Govt's $105m regional trains pitch - National
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ANZ calling for another 35000+ people to be made unemployed. A 35K drop in income per person (from ~50K to ~15K on a benefit), would reduce demand by $1.2 billion. Later today ANZ will report 2022 profits. Last year their profit put almost $2 billion in costs on the NZ economy.
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All the anti-vaxxers have left whangarei to shit on the cenotaph in pōneke so I can safely take my kid to the veg market. Am I allowed to be happy about this
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how did we create such a brutal system that 46 percent of Pasifika children grow up in households where food runs out
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Employment Court has declared an injunction against the NZ Bus lockout, getting drivers back to work! Private equity union busting is no match for massive community solidarity and staunch members!!!
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Hi employers, please direct yr criticism of the minimum wage increase to the landlords that keep making life unafforable...
Oh yr the same exact people oh this is embarrassing...
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we produce enough dairy for 90 million people and a block of cheese costs 18 bucks, where is my govt cheese ration
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govt should just make it legal for 48.4% of us to smoke weed
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So proud of
@efesocollins
and the whole team for running a visionary working class campaign for Tamaki Makaurau. Having a spotlight on our communities and our issues, even if just for a moment, *is* the victory. We'll keep on fighting for that better future! Arohanui x
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I’m voting yes in the cannabis referendum because our racist justice system spends far too much money ruining the futures of Māori and Pasifika youth rather than creating decent work and vibrant communities.
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Inflation is an economy killer and we'll do anything to get it under control.
- How about hiking taxes on high income earners?
No, we won't do that.
-Price controls on key commodities?
No.
- Regulating margins?
Ummm... The plan is to make low income workers unemployed.
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The Warehouse pulled Pete Evans cos they need a good news story. Remember they also...
👉paid consultants $19 million to tell them to fire workers
👉took the wage subsidy for those workers, then
👉continued their plan and fired 600 workers, more than of them half union members.
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People who claim they would vote for a Green Party if it was an actual Green Party without all the social policy attached will actually only ever vote for National.
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Yes we have a supermarket duopoly. But the reality is it's uncompetitive markets all the way down. 2 major players in the bread market. 3 in fisheries. 4 meat processors. 2 in chicken. I can help you find where the inflation comes from if you like.
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Fucking hate this fucking housing market and the successive fucking governments that have enabled it. A big deposit and a secure income is not enough to secure a decent home for our family outside of a main centre. Fuckers, the lot of em.
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"it isn't my job to be rushing outside with buckets", Wayne Brown, Jan 2023.
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The cost of increasing the minimum wage to $21.20 (~$373m) is less than the supermarkets extract from working people in "excess" profits each year ($430m). We all benefit from a rising minimum wage but nobody benefits from an unregulated profit-hungry duopoly.
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Can any history professors out there elaborate on the times that Stalin directed councils to consider introducing Maori wards
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In 2022 Woolworths NZ sent a windfall $600 million dividend to its Australian parent company. Now they're investing $400m to change their name. I'm trying to think of anything else that this money could be spent on.
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The idea this Govt is more wasteful than others is not supported by evidence. Govts spend more in crisis periods, and the Sixth Labour Govt has faced a few expensive ones. Total Govt spending hit 48.1% of GDP in 2011 under a National Govt with (C&S from Act, UF and TPM).
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Why does the Chairman of the Board of NZ��s most profitable company wants to intervene in the political process? In the decade to 2022 ANZ extracted $17 billion in net profit *after tax* from NZ communities, and sent $16 billion to its offshore shareholders.
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The sixth labour govt could have just:
- raised benefits
- implemented a CGT
- legalized weed
- supported a peoples vaccine
- opt-out union membership
- bought back air nz
And everyone would think basically the same of them
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Genesis net profit after tax has increased 600 percent, from $32 million to $222 million, despite a 12 percent decline in revenue. Can I get a windfall profit tax?
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Retail oil prices are up because the barrel price is up over $100. However the oil that you are putting into your car now at $3+ per litre was ordered months ago when the barrel price was ~$70. Oil companies are absolutely killing it right now.
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RBNZ hawkish over wage growth, meanwhile reporting season looks fun:
- Mercury Energy profit up 232% to $469m
- ASB up $122m to $1.418b
- Fletcher up 41.6% to $432m
- Turners Automotive up 16% to $31.3m
- Colonial Motor Co up 33.6% to $33.2m
- Skellerup up 19% to $47.8m
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Hilarious that RW discourse has reduced to 'why didn't u pay bribes to big pharma so we could open up to delta sooner'
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Amazing that almost all economists seem to oppose rent controls and yet they are practiced by 16 European countries, some for decades. Are there no economists in Europe? Are their Northern Hemisphere charts upside down? Much to think about…
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Act spent $4.2m on this election campaign over the last two year plus that free plane and they ended up one seat better than 2020.
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Baffled over the chorus of economists going hammer and tongs on Labour’s GST policy (that disproportionately benefits the wealthy) having next to nothing to say over the Nats income tax proposal that disproportionately benefits the wealthy to a much greater degree.
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With the
@AklTransport
CEO resigning,
@FIRST_Union
is pulling out all the stops to bring buses back into public ownership and substantially lift bus driver wages, putting decent work, quality service and lower fares ahead of corporate profits
#BusFair
🚌
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Uncomfortable with the laundering of Paula Bennett's career through our state broadcaster, mad tory austerity hawk
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Stoked that bus drivers in Tāmaki Makaurau will get an $8 million pay rise. This the first step, keep watching this space. We're gonna make sure our public transport workers get the respect they deserve
#BusFair
#OurPublicTransport
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i'm really curious to know what dr ropata was actually up to in guatemala. it was before the end of the civil war. was he involved in supporting the guerillas or the fascists?
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Our houses made a $200 billion capital gain, don't tell me we can't afford the $5 billion to fund implementing the WEAG recommendations.
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Just a reminder that in the past 12 months twice as many forestry workers have died in the job as cops in the past decade, and there's a heck of a lot more cops than there are forestry workers.
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Despite profiting handsomely from a 60% surge in house prices over the last two years (a direct result of Govt fiscal policy) Paula's employer Bayleys have taken more than $1.8m in wage subsidies in the past two years.
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Absolutely stunning that in the middle of the Omicron surge, CHEP - the major pallet maker in NZ - is prepared to impose chaos on the supply chain just to prevent their workers being paid the living wage. Nationalise the pallet industry.
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We did it, we finally cracked the $6 billion-a-year in big four bank profits! Well done team of five million, that's $1,216 for each and every one us last year. Can we reach $7 billion in 2023?!
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I was in Pakistan soon after Jacinda said this and wore the hijab. Many people told me it was the first time in decades a Western leader had shown that kind of empathy and leadership. NZ must follow up with real solidarity and compassion for communities in Gaza. Ceasefire now.
Jacinda Ardern stood in Christchurch 4 years ago after a massacre of Muslims proclaiming, 'not in our name'. Where is she now when 1000s of Muslims are being massacred after our PM gave the perpetraters diplomatic cover by proclaiming ' Israel's 'right to defend itself'? Nowhere.
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That debate sucked. Neither party is gonna do anything about the wretched inequality and brutal housing crisis we’re facing right now. Join your union. Organise in your community. Demand more of your leaders, they’re failing us right now.
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John Key would have turfed uffindell at the first whiff of scandal. I never liked the guy but he at least had some leadership instincts.
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How bout instead of raising interest rates to combat rising inflation we just tax the rich a bit more
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If you wanna end child labour pay their parents a living wage. If you want to end child poverty pay their parents a living wage.
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The primary responsibility of the nz labour movement from tomorrow onward is to mount the moral and economic case in support of fair pay agreements. This is certainly the most important legislative legacy of the Ardern period for workers and worthy of fighting for.
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Min wage increase is great but highlights the bracket creep question. From 1 April if a min wage worker does one hour of overtime a week they will enter the 30% tax bracket, alongside paying highest GST in the world. Need to shift tax burden from income to capital.
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Did Damien Grant miss the part of the story where Tamaki spent decades extorting tithe money from working class communities - esp Māori and Pasifika communities - to fund his own lavish tax-free lifestyle, or is that just part of his definition of success?
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Throwing 70000 people out of work will decrease monthly consumption by about $200 million. In Sept 22, 151,270 visitors arrived in NZ. MBIE estimates an avg stay of 18 days, spending $197 a day = $536 million.
Cut tourism, not jobs.
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things jacinda shud nationalise:
- energy companies
- telecoms
- public transport (i.e. end competitive contracting)
- ports
- empty houses
- banks
- forest industries
- marsden and tiwai point
- Fletchers
- Air NZ
- Ryman healthcare
- The Warriors
What else?
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.
@actparty
still out here saying you need to raise productivity before raising wages. But productivity growth has almost doubled wage growth for the last 30 years. Bosses and shareholders pocket the gains that workers generate then bully them out of fair wage increases.
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PSA: Anyone who thinks Easter trading laws are a historical relic doesn't care about the essential workers that got us through the pandemic. Enjoy your day off and thank you so much for your scarifice. Let's get you that FPA ✊
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Year-on-year inflation is now up to 5.9%, with petrol up 30.5%, fruit&veg up 7.2% and rents up 3.8%. The working class is being hammered now while the rich enjoy a trillion dollar wealth transfer. We need big increases in support - benefits, WFF and free universal public services
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This tweet was popular so I've made a map of regions according to the amount that's left over for a minimum wage earner each week, having paid the average rent for that region. We need rent controls comrades.
The average Auckland rent is 87% of the take-home pay of a minimum wage worker (without Kiwisaver or student loan payments), leaving behind $82 to cover food, water, electricity, internet, transport etc. Truly we are living in a era of Victorian inequality.
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It's almost as if there's a relationship between our extremely low public debt and the glaring infrastructure and service deficits we face on the daily...
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@danwootton
On a per capita basis UK has had almost 400 times the number of covid fatalities as NZ (130,000 vs 26), while UK has had to endure numerous lockdowns for much longer than NZ. The NZ strategy is immeasurably better for health and economy.
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CHEP WORKERS HAVE WON!!!
Substantial wage increase, overtime rates for weekend work and a sign-on bonus for those who took strike action.
For decades we've had a broken economy, but there's never been a better time than now to fix it.
It's time for
#TheBigFix
.
@FIRST_Union
Sick of hearing about the fash camping trip to welly? Workers at CHEP in Penrose are holding a hard picket (nothing in, nothing out) fighting for the living wage! These essential workers make the pallets that move goods around the country and worked all through pandemic. Heroes!
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The Commerce Commission estimates that the supermarket duopoly makes $430m in excess profit each year. That's $84 from every man, woman and child.
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Good to get a reminder of our history last night from a dear friend. The Govt didn't just give us sick leave. Our union went on a 14 week strike just to get three days. The business sector was dead against. No victory without struggle.
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Important legal distinction here. The Israeli state’s actions may not have reached the ethnic cleansing legal threshold yet. We might just be looking at a bunch of war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law at this stage.
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The $650m in profit made by Fletchers, Fulton Hogan and Ryman would not have been possible without $115.2m in wage subsidies. These companies are also likely to experience big returns in the future as we build our way out of the economic and housing crisis.
Pay it back!
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John Key can come back for 10 minutes and 10 minutes only to explain why he gave peter Jackson half a billion in tax breaks yet underfunded health by 2.3 billion
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I've often heard the argument that NZ can't invest more in infra coz we need low public debt due to high risk of natural disasters. Now with power out to much of the North Island, the opposite is true - we need major investment in infra to respond to disasters. End austerity now.
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Wellington heritage be like 'our ancestors died of black lung in these freezing shit boxes and we want our children to have a chance to experience that'
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