Radio NZ: Politics with Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams – 23 December 2013

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– Politics on Nine To Noon –

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– Monday 23 December 2013 –

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– Kathryn Ryan, with Matthew Hooton & Mike Williams –

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Today on Politics on Nine To Noon,

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Click to Listen: Politics with Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams ( 25′ 22″  )

This week:

Looking back on the year that was in politics…

• Party polls
• David Shearer
• Economic growth
• Smaller political parties
• Kim Dotcom
• Asset sales
• Peter Dunne, Andrea Vance
• Len Brown
• GCSB
• John Banks
• Corporate welfare, Tiwai Point, film industry, “Muldoonery”, Commerce Commission, Meridian
• Solid Energy, Auditor General investigation
• NZ Power
• Labour, David Cunliffe
• Year of the Women

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Letter to the editor: Brewer refuses to accept responsibility

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FROM:     "f.macskasy" 
SUBJECT:   Letters to the editor
DATE:      Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:44:06 +1300
TO:        NZ Herald ,<letters@herald.co.nz> 

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The Editor
NZ Herald

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Right wing Auckland Councillor, Cameron Brewer seems to be
squirming, as his own "lapse" in not declaring freebies from
SkyCity and a free trip to Australia, is made public.

Brewer's latest  excuse, that councillors have been "poorly
advised about the rules"; demanding that the code of conduct
rules on declaring gifts and interests is "cleared up"; and
blaming council staff for "not making declarations easily
accessible to ratepayers" - is simply a pathetic attempt at
buck-passing.

Oh, of course, it's someone else' fault.

As per course, Right Wing politicians do not accept
responsibility. Ever. Just ask the Prime Minister, who is
reknowned - now internationally - for his regular bouts of
memory lapses and "brain fades".

-Frank Macskasy
(Address & phone number supplied)

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References

Radio NZ: Brewer defends actions over trip

Huffington Post: New Zealand’s Leader Questioned Over Apartheid Amnesia

 

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2013 – Ongoing jobless tally

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Continued from: 2013 – More redundancies…

So by the numbers, for this year,

January

• Summit Wool Spinners: 192 redundancies
• Event Cinemas Highland Park theatre:  12 (or more?) redundancies
• Kiwi Pallets: 5 redundancies

February

• NZ Post/Datamail: 100 redundancies
• Mainzeal: 200 redundancies (+ flow-on effects)
• Contact Energy: 100+ redundancies
• Christchurch school closures: 50+ redundancies
• ANZ: 23 redundancies
• Transpacific: up to 200 redundancies in NZ and Australia
• Suzanne Grae: 100 redundancies
• Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment: 135 redundancies
• Gen-i: unknown number redundancies
• Solid Energy: 450 redundancies (1,200 more under review)
• Wairarapa and Hutt Valley DHBs: 41 redundancies

March

• Southern Institute of Technology: 6/7 redundancies
• Geon Group: 185  redundancies
• Ellerslie TAB: 54 redundancies (net, 30 redundancies?)
• Department of Conservation: 140 redundancies
• Telecom: 1,230 redundancies
• Park Road Post: 12 redundancies

April

• Starplus Homes: 10 redundancies
• Fonterra: 300 redundancies
• Fisher Funds: 13 redundancies
• Ministry of Justice: 38 redundancies
• Presbyterian Support Otago:  460 redundancies

May

• Solid Energy: 105 redundancies
• Tait Communications: 70 redundancies
• Starfish Clothing retailer: 9 redundancies
• Wellington libraries: 8+ redundancies

June

• Safe Air/Air New Zealand: 80 redundancies
• Delta Utility Services: 40 redundancies
• Yellow Pages: 35 redundancies
• Cavalier Carpets:  17 redundancies (est)
• NZ Post: 80-100 redundancies
• NZ Post: 120 redundancies

July

• Delta Utility Services: 77 redundancies
• Fonterra: 250 redundancies
• Canterbury Spinners: 50 redundancies
• WINZ: 35 redundancies
• Solid Energy Stockton Mine: 15 redundancies

August

• Holcim Cement: 120 redundancies
• Oringi Freezing Works: 50 redundancies
• Tiwai Aluminium Smelter: 30 redundancies
• Solid Energy Huntly Mine: 93 redundancies
• Sitel Call Centre: 100 redundancies
• Air New Zealand: 180 redundancies
• Ballance Agri-Nutrients: 25  redundancies
• Wickliffe Printing: 19 redundancies

September

• Learning Media: 100 redundancies
• “Night’n Day” Convenience Chain: 9 redundancies
• BIC Oceania: 21 redundancies
• Fletcher Challenge: 62 redundancies

October

• Independent Fisheries: 200 redundancies
• Various DHBs: 13 redundancies
• Tachikawa Forest Products: 130 redundancies
• Silver Fern Farms: 90 redundancies
• NZ Post: 1,000 (est.) redundancies

November

• Unitec: 50 (33 net) redundancies

December

• Unilever: 58 redundancies
• Bauer media (30 redundancies)

See also

Reported Job Losses

(Nice to see Interest.Co.Nz following my lead in recording job losses around the country!)

Current unemployment statistics

June 2013 Quarter

	June 2013 quarter	Quarterly change	Annual change
	(000)	(Percent)
Employed	2,242	+0.4	+0.7
Unemployed	153	+3.7	-5.1
Not in the labour force	1,127	0.0	+2.2
Working-age population	3,523	+0.4	+0.9
	(Percent)	(Percentage points)
Employment rate	63.6	-0.1	-0.2
Unemployment rate	6.4	+0.2	-0.4
Labour force participation rate	68.0	+0.1	-0.4

All figures are seasonally adjusted.  Source: Statistics New Zealand

September 2013 Quarter

	September 2013 quarter	Quarterly change	Annual change
	(000)	(Percent)
Employed	2,272	+1.2	+2.4
Unemployed	150	-2.6	-13.1
Not in the labour force	1,109	-1.5	+0.5
Working-age population	3,531	+0.2	+1.1
	(Percent)	(Percentage points)
Employment rate	64.4	+0.7	+0.9
Unemployment rate	6.2	-0.2	-1.0
Labour force participation rate	68.6	+0.5	+0.2

All figures are seasonally adjusted.  Source: Statistics New Zealand

 

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