More Time Needed for Talks on Foreshore and Seabed
“The
Council of Trade Unions has written to the Prime Minister
seeking more time for public discussion on the foreshore and
seabed issue,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today.
“A
meeting in Wellington of unions affiliated to the CTU has
called for adequate time and appropriate processes to ensure
that informed discussion, with respect and integrity, can
take place between whanau, hapu and iwi and the Government
which ensures a principled and just outcome,” he
said
Meetings are taking place up and down the country in
unions and communities, Ross Wilson said.
“Greater
understanding of the issues is developing but more time is
needed to work through to a fair outcome.
“The CTU has
conveyed our concern to the Prime Minister and asked that
any legislation foreshadowed by the Government discussion
paper not be further considered until the processes of
public debate have been worked through.
“There are
possible options emerging in the discussions, and
terminating the consultation process on October 3 would be
premature and inflammatory,” Ross Wilson
said.
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings together over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions. We are the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
After recording a River of Freedom review the Scoop Political Podcast went into hibernation. Now with a new Government formed it’s time to dust off this forgotten silver and look at the impact this documentary, about the Wellington parliamentary protest of 2022, had on Election 23. Watched by potentially tens of thousands of voters in the weeks prior to the election River of Freedom was not likely to have won votes for the then Labour government. More
Now that he’s back as Foreign Minister, maybe Winston Peters should start reading the MFAT website which is currently celebrating the 25th anniversary of how Kiwis alerted the rest of the world to the genocide in Rwanda. How times have changed ...
In 2023, the government is clutching its pearls because senior Labour MP Damien O’Connor has dared suggest that Gaza’s civilian population - already living under apartheid and subjected to sixteen years of an illegal embargo, and now being herded together and slaughtered indiscriminately amid the destruction of their homes, schools, mosques, and hospitals - are also victims of what amounts to genocide. More
“The Human Rights Commission’s appointment of a second Chief Executive is just the latest example of a taxpayer-funded bureaucracy serving itself at the expense of delivery for New Zealanders,” says ACT MP Todd Stephenson. More
New CTU analysis of the National & ACT coalition agreement has shown the cost of returning interest deductibility to landlords is an extra $900M on top of National’s original proposal. This is because it is going to be implemented earlier and faster, including retrospective rebates from April 2023. More