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Radio NZ: Nine to Noon – Brian Easton – 7 February 2013
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– Nine To Noon –
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– Friday 7 February 2014 –
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– Kathryn Ryan & Brian Easton –
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Income inequality in New Zealand is set to become a central election issue, but is it really getting worse?
Brian Easton offers a solution how to address income inequality. Listen and find out what he suggests.
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Click to listen: Brian Easton, Economist ( 13′ 37″ )
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Acknowledgement: Radio NZ
(Hat tip: Murray Simmonds)
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Radio NZ: Focus on Politics for 7 February 2014
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– Focus on Politics –
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– Friday 7 February 2014 –
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– Chris Bramwell –
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A weekly analysis of significant political issues.
Friday after 6:30pm and Saturday at 5:10pm
Politicians converging on Waitangi Marae this year were given a relatively easy run, with a noisy but respectful protest, and a few fish dropped at the Prime Minister’s feet. History was made though – with women allowed to speak on the marae for the first time, 15 years after the former Labour Party leader Helen Clark was refused permission to speak.
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Click to listen: Focus on Politics for 7 February 2014 ( 17′ 36″ )
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The trivialisation of the News and consequences
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Patrick Gower recently wrote on the TV3 website,
“The Labour Party has been putting voters wrong about its baby bonus.
Labour has been deliberately misleading, and in my view dishonest by omission.
On Monday night I told 3 News viewers that under Labour’s $60 a week baby bonus policy, families would get $3120 a year for their baby’s first year.
A simple calculation you might think, of $60 mutiplied by 52 weeks, given David Cunliffe announced in his State of the Nation speech: “That’s why today, I am announcing that for 59,000 families with new-born babies, they will all receive a Best Start payment of $60 per week, for the first year of their child’s life.“
Now most normal people would think that means “all” those parents will get the payment “for the first year of their child’s life”.
But it wasn’t true – not that you would know that from Cunliffe’s speech, media stand-up, the MPs who were there to “help” and all the glossy material handed out to us.
Because buried in the material was a website link that takes you to a more detailed explanation policy.
And on page six of that policy document, in paragraph 3, it revealed the payment would commence at the “end of the household’s time of using Paid Parental Leave, ie. after 26 weeks in most cases.”
So translated, in most cases, the $60 a week payment is not for the first year, but for the second six months.”
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References
Dominion Post: Govt spent $500,000 on boozy functions
The Press: Jenny Shipley on Cera review panel
TV3: Opinion: Labour dishonest on ‘baby bonus‘
TV3 News: January 27 6PM Bulletin
Previous related blogposts
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Above image acknowledgment: Francis Owen
This blogpost was first published on The Daily Blog on 1 February 2014.
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