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Has Winston Peters got a ferries deal for you! (Buyer caution advised.) Unfortunately, the vision that Peters has been busily peddling for the past 24 hours – of several shipyards bidding down the price of us getting smaller, narrower, rail-enabled ferries – looks more like a science fiction fantasy. One of those bidders...namely, South Korea’s vast Hyundai-Mipo Dockyard (HMD) held the initial contract for Labour’s iRex ferries, and this has to give HDM a unique ability to dictate the terms of where we go from here.
Apiata received the medal for carrying a wounded fellow soldier to safety under heavy fire in Afghanistan in 2004. He has campaigned for more than five years for changes to the Veterans Support Act 2014.
The proposed overhaul of public service legislation threatens the progress made in building a quality public service that properly represents New Zealand. Successive governments have sought to build a workforce that reflects the New Zealand population that it serves so it is better able to deliver effective policies and services.
“New Zealand already has one of the highest rates of workplace deaths in the developed world. Despite this appalling record, the Government is choosing to weaken our health and safety laws,” Labour workplace relations spokesperson Jan Tinetti said.
Decision-makers need to consider who needs to be around the table at the earliest stages of policy development and think more creatively about how the policy process can work to truly empower people and communities.
Chairman Eugene Bareman says the measures will go a long way toward shifting the balance back in favour of victims and those impacted by violence.
“This is a significant milestone in the project, as the study of the excavated material will give us a greater understanding of the earliest human activity in the Bluff Harbour area and the Polynesian settlement of Aotearoa New Zealand,” says Dr Chris Jennings, who studied material from the Tiwai Point site as a major part of his PhD thesis.
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