Productive employment relations?
Members of the National Government say the word productivity a lot. I certainly agree there is a need to lift our productivity as a nation. However I get annoyed that there is little real action and...
View ArticleDr Brash : The Washington Consensus is dead – the party’s over!
Reading the 2025 Taskforce report #2 reinforces what a lucky escape we had in 2005 when Don Brash and National were beaten by Labour in the general election. If that hadn’t happened, by now we would be...
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Kiwi jobs. Kiwi skills. Too important to sell overseas
Some photos from today’s rally for Hillside jobs in Dunedin. (Not quite sure what I was laughing about, or what on earth Pete is doing in the second pic). More than a thousand people turned out on a...
View ArticleThe importance of being Labour
Have had a gutsful of the white-anting of Labour from both the right and the left of politics. White-anting is an Australian expression. It means undermining. I lived there for 14 years, worked for the...
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A man came to see me. He was laid off a few weeks ago. He’s a mechanical engineer. Highly skilled. He has five children. His wife has cancer. Inoperable cancer. He was chosen for redundancy....
View ArticleTrade policy to be released tomorrow
I will be releasing Labour’s trade policy tomorrow at my campaign launch in Nelson. That is a good place to do it because the Nelson region is built on fine primary tradeable commodities. And yet our...
View ArticleManufacturing renaissance
I’ve just been sent an article about a report released late last year by the Boston Consulting Group which elaborates on why there is an American manufacturing renaissance occuring. It’s a pity I...
View ArticleSticking up for your city
It’s one of the main jobs of any member of parliament to stick up for your patch. You are elected by a constituency and they want and expect you to defend them and promote their rights. I don’t think...
View ArticleWhat helped the UK bring back manufacturing?
I am travelling to the US and UK to discuss my ideas on monetary policy with some of the best economic minds in the world, including former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz, Harvard academic...
View ArticleRed Alert: Deadline tomorrow to submit to the manufacturing inquiry
Submissions to the joint party Parliamentary Inquiry into Manufacturing close tomorrow Friday 30 November. The inquiry has been jointly called by the Labour Party, the Green Party, New Zealand First...
View ArticleKiwirail: Don’t say you weren’t warned!
This column (written by me) appeared in the Dunedin D Scene newspaper today A parliamentary inquiry into manufacturing heard this week in Dunedin there are no quality checks on the manufacturing...
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