Roschana Webby TPP will supposedly help ‘the good people of Oxford that make chutneys and olives and all sorts of things, to sell their products in Japan and the US’. There are 12 countries involved in these negotiations. Surely this is about more than chutney.Many people assume that the TPP is merely about ‘Free Trade’ […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder I had to roll on the ground in laughter when I read this comment from Don Brash. I don’t care if the controversy has damaged support for the Labour Party of course, but I do deeply care about the damage done to race relations in this city and to our […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder The New Zealand Debt Clock reached $100 billion NZ dollars of government debt last week . That calculates to to $25,000 debt for every Man, Woman and Child in New Zealand. Equal to 50 per cent of New Zealand’s economic output. When National took control of the Beehive in 2008, debt was […]
Angeline Greensill Six applications and nine interested parties are seeking an urgent hearing in the Waitangi Tribunal arguing that the TPPA would breach the Treaty of Waitangi. The Tribunal will decide today whether to give the claim urgency. The Crown says it is too late to stop it and refused to give an undertaking not to make […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder Some parts of society you just can’t privatise Schools, Prisons and State housing. Serco is a defence and aerospace contractors based in the UK. Serco operates public and private transport and traffic control, aviation, military weapons, detention centres, prisons and schools. In 2007 government tried outsourcing prisoner transport to Chubb another UK […]
Naani Abercrombie A quick analysis of the Property Tax Measures to be introduced in October suggests these will do little to curb the Auckland housing bubble. The Government and their cronies have used a newfound intolerance of xenophobia to distract us from the fact that they are doing nothing to soften the demand side of […]
By Mike Nixon A number of us are deeply concerned by the trivialising of the killing and eating of the native wood pigeon, kereru. It was very offensive for me to see a reporter on 7 Sharp trying to make a joke about it all by offering what was presented as kereru to members of […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder The new tax laws being proposed by the National government are not going to prevent foreign property speculation they are a feeble attempt designed to appease the public that the government has taken action. These New Tax laws are not a deterrent just a few minor roadblocks to foreign venture capitalists. All non-residents must provide […]
Mana News- Hilda Halkyard-Harawira Me tupu i a wīwiī me tupu i a wāwā, turia ki te wera, me piri tonu ki te korito o te rengarenga, me whakapakari ki te hua o te kawariki. Flourish in many places as you face the fires of adversity; cling to the heart of the rengarenga as sustenance […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder The Housing minister Nick Smith has rejected a foreign buyers register to identify non-resident foreign property speculators. The minister has decided property speculator’s should submit a New Zealand IRD number, tax identification number from their own country and current identification. The National government has accused labour of releasing poor data that people with Chinese […]
