It truly was a race against time as I tumbled my way through 20 PowerPoint slides at the rate of 20 seconds per slide. I was new to the discipline of PechaKucha – the art of the seven-minute slide presentation – before I tackled one at the recent National Rural Health Conference
‘Labour’, a centennial history of the Labour Party
Socialist and workers’ parties around the world this weekend celebrate the international day of labour, or May Day.
But not in New Zealand and a handful of other countries, which separately mark the contribution of the labour movement.
New Zealand’s Labour Day was set on the fourth Monday of October in 1890, one year after the Marxist International Socialist Congress in Paris, or Second International, declared the first May Day. Common to both were demands for an eight-hour day, a call that had been answered for some New Zealand trade unionists as early as 1840 through the efforts of Auckland carpenter Samuel Parnell.
‘Labour’, a centennial history of the Labour Party
Socialist and workers’ parties around the world this weekend celebrate the international day of labour, or May Day.
But not in New Zealand and a handful of other countries, which separately mark the contribution of the labour movement.
New Zealand’s Labour Day was set on the fourth Monday of October in 1890, one year after the Marxist International Socialist Congress in Paris, or Second International, declared the first May Day. Common to both were demands for an eight-hour day, a call that had been answered for some New Zealand trade unionists as early as 1840 through the efforts of Auckland carpenter Samuel Parnell.
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The standard of living is guaranteed to decline, I’m afraid, because energy and food costs are rising globally. And the sociopaths that comprise the Adern government are not interested in the welfare of the populace; the welfare of banks, corporations, opportunists and politicians come first.
John W
Mother hood and parenthood are the most important jobs in NZ or anywhere, but they attract little economic support.
Much mental illness, crime, suicide and violence, stem from struggling stressed families who get negligible support in our economy . The victims are often through inter-generational family hardship. Meanwhile vast profits are sucked out of the community by many who are wealthy, some not even living in the communities the draw excessive wealth from. For most consumed items a profit is taken. In grower based communities food and resources are shared on a need basis and contributing without fiscal profit gathering. Communities bound by collective effort often gi