The government’s apparent docking of nurses’ pay for working in their wards for their full 12.5 hour shift, is made possible from ACT’s partial strike law, which I covered last year, and this.

Classic Key clanger By: Demeter - 3:43 pm, March 18th, 2010 - 6 comments In this article, in which a Kaikoura Whale Watch spokesman states the bloody obvious (that if New Zealand turns pro-whaling his ...

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other ...

Central Otago is probably the purest expression of our structural economic flaws: land speculation as the main driver of wealth, thousands of low-paid service jobs (including the outright modern ...

To dissent means you are either right wing, anti vax, fallen down a worm hole or a misogynist. Regardless of yr position ...

The death of Leonard Nimoy at the age of 83 will no doubt cause many to talk about his life and about the being that was Spock. I thought I should get my 2c and state proudly that because of what he ...

The most important points in this article are as follows – National want to open up ~2/3 1 of our entire conservation estate for sale / commercialisation and exchange. And, at the same time they are ...

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So, you’re talking with someone about politics and they say something really dumb and wrong and you know it’s wrong but you don’t have the arguments and facts at your fingertips to make a decisive ...