Former Green Party co-leader James Shaw has given his last speech in Parliament this evening, marking the end of nearly nine years as leader and almost a d
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ANALYSIS After this week’s dreadful poll , which saw the three governing parties down by a collective five points, the Beehive’s panoptic gaze fixed itself.
This week’s announcement of pay raises of around 2.8% backdated to last October could hardly have come at a worse time, with the economy on the brink of recession, massive cutbacks in public expenditure, public sector redundancies and rising unemployment.