Shoddy, rubbish tax on employers

Janet Mackey has been hung out to dry by Labour on the Paid Parental Leave issue. Her views on this issue are recorded in an article in the Gisborne Herald dated April 16 1999.

Rubbish, shoddy, and a tax on employers are the words used by Ms Mackey in April to describe the Alliance’s Paid Parental Leave bill. Now this shoddy rubbish piece of legislation is Labour Party policy.

Ms Mackey states in her article that she has spoken to “some union officials” and they do not support the bill.

“Ms Mackey needs to come clean about her views on this issue. Also, we need to know who are the union officials that agree with her analysis that this Alliance measure is a tax on employers. Was Ms Mackey consulted prior to Labour announcing their adoption of the Alliance proposal as Labour Party policy?’ asked National MP Annabel Young today.”

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>