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Audrey Young: Rating Jacinda Ardern s second-term Cabinet after six months
28 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson at the first meeting of the second-term Cabinet on November 6 last year. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson at the first meeting of the second-term Cabinet on November 6 last year. Photo / Mark Mitchell
OPINION:
One of Jacinda Ardern s newest ministers and two experienced ministers have scored highest in the Herald s latest rating for her second-term Cabinet. Next week will be six months since the Government was sworn in
Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 9:04 am
New Zealand’s two port unions have spoken out on
Workers Memorial Day (28 April), demanding improvements to
health and safety in New Zealand ports.
The Maritime
Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) and Rail and Maritime Transport
Union (RMTU) represent thousands of port workers throughout
New Zealand.
Leaders of the two unions say port
workers are being killed and hurt due to systemic problems
in the industry, and things have to change.
MUNZ
National Secretary Craig Harrison says the string of deaths
and serious accidents at Ports of Auckland over the last few
years was a glaring example of the problem, which had
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Wellington Women Lawyers Association conveyor Steph Dyhrberg has long been a strong voice against harassment and bullying. Here she reacts to Dame Margaret Bazley s 2018 report on law firm Russell McVeagh.
You know it is coming when a person who has been working 15-hour days suddenly starts showing up late and leaving early. They look like they have a hangover even though you have never seen them grabbing a drink. Their old personality is gone, they have bags under their eyes and if you had one word to describe what you think they are feeling it would be this: exhausted.
SEG (New Zealand) meeting: Ten years after the Pike River mine disaster
Political lessons in the fight for truth about the deaths of 29 miners
The Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) (SEG) will hold an online public meeting on Saturday, May 8, at 4PM NZ time, to discuss the political lessons of the Pike River mine disaster and the families’ fight for justice, in opposition to the ongoing cover-up by the state.
Please click here to register to attend on Zoom.
In November 2010, 29 miners were killed in a series of explosions at Pike River Coal’s underground mine. This was not a random accident, but the outcome of deliberate decisions to place production ahead of workers’ safety. The mine was a death trap, with grossly inadequate methane drainage, monitoring and ventilation systems, and no emergency exit.