Printable version Last Thursday at its AGM the NZ Co-operative Bank invited shareholders to adopt a new by constitution formalising the bank’s profit sharing arrangements, New Zealand ownership and representation arrangements. The changes have unfolded over several years. To 2012 and under the leadership of Girol Karacaoglu, (who has since moved to become chief economist […]
The ‘Free Trade’ horse is already bolting on residential property sales
On Tuesday David Parker wrote in the NZ Herald that the government’s signing of the S. Korea Free Trade Agreement creates risks for NZ. Today the Labour Party has withheld support until certain guarantees are made. However the specific risk of losing the right to legislate for New Zealanders is already in chain in residential […]
TPP opposition widespread across all of NZ society
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) if it is finalised will be signed and ratified by the Cabinet. Professor Jane Kelsey has shown that the Parliamentary Select Committee process is cosmetic. Much like the South Korea FTA, recently under discussion by the Foreign Affairs and Trade Select Committee, there will be no vote in parliament […]
Another world is possible. The Labour History Project’s 2015 Essay competition
The Labour History Project launched an essay competition last year. The competition is running again in 2015 and entries close on Tuesday 2 June. See the attached flyer for details about the competition, closing date and prizes. The topic is ‘Another world is possible’ and you can read the 2014 prize winning essays here. The […]
Rules reduction review: – An extraordinary attack on local government.
Duncan Garner recently wrote a story about an aggrieved property developer. The anonymous man, is apparently “scared” of council retribution if his details were published. Garner criticises the council the developer was dealing with but is mysteriously silent on details that would allow us to understand why the developer was building on a plot covered […]
On not reporting on greenhouse gas emissions
The government has made a decision not to report on New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions as part of the package of statistical environmental reporting for the period starting 2015. The new reporting regime was announced today by the Chief Executives of Stats NZ and the Ministry for the Environment respectively, having been vetted by the […]
Why Scoop is crucial to New Zealand’s democracy
I’ve supported Scoop’s crowd funding. Can you spare some cash to support Scoop as well? With almost completely foreign ownership of our newspapers, the loss of TVNZ7 and Heartland TV and the loss of nationwide broadcasting for Triangle TV in the last few years and Radio NZ having suffered 7 years of fixed budgets our […]
World leading research moves off shore because of TICSA
This month six of NZ’s universities are submitting their final bids for a share in the 2014 budget’s $28M of new funds for ICT graduate schools. According to Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce this initiative will connect tertiary education and industry to deliver more of the ICT skills New Zealand needs by lifting the training […]
Universities and Scoop’s Licencing.
In the National Business review last week a story covered Scoop Media’s innovative licencing arrangements, which have been in place for a number of years. Rather than a paywall that excludes everyone who cannot pay, Scoop’s licencing conditions make the extensive database of NZ and overseas news stories […]
How free is free speech? A conversation for Wellingtonians
Chief Human Rights Commissioner, David Rutherford will be in conversation with SATRS board member Noel Cheer on the limits to free speech Information from the St Andrews Trust for the Study of Religion and Society – The SATRS Conversations Flyer for free speech debate St Andrew’s on The Terrace, Tuesday 3 March 2015, 12:15pm – […]
News – make it ours! Crowd funding campaign
At the Democracy, Ethics and the Public Good Conference last year the state of the NZ media, including its foreign ownership and poor quality of coverage, was identified as one of three key problems in our democracy that needed to be urgently addressed. Scoop Media is part of the new media that has arisen to […]
The crisis in New Zealand’s civil justice system
Printed version Barrister Frances Joychild has given Public Good permission to re-publish her article which appeared last week on the Auckland District Law Society website and in other legal publications. Frances’ paper looks at the issue of fair access to representation in civil legal cases and her evidence demonstrates that the situation for civil litigants […]
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