Winston Peters has 'no doubt' he could've stopped contractors law if unions went to him earlier The Green's Teanau Tuiono says New Zealand First doesn't "give a damn" about workers.

1/4 In September last year we sought a meeting with Winston Peters and New Zealand First to talk about the Employment Relations Amendment Bill and what could be done to protect workers in New Zealand. We met with them in October and again shortly before the Bill was passed. #nzpol

1) if you're not sure if you're enrolled or not, enrol (no downside), 2) promoting access to the paper/pdf form as well as online enrolment - often easier to complete. You could even have copies in class, and scan completed forms off to Electoral Commission. Karawhiua!

The New Zealand Labour Party condemns the US attack on Venezuela including kidnapping its president as a blatant violation of international law.

I remember sitting in the gallery for the second reading of the Health and Safety at Work Act, with Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse, and Deborah McMillan whose husband was killed on a forestry job, and listening to the MP for Invercargill waxing lyrical about "preserving rural life". It was gross.

We do not report on the victims in Gaza only now that they are Christians or because Suhail was injured. All innocent victims cry out for vengeance in the sight of God, every life is sacred, and Christians of every denomination in Gaza share in all things the fate of their people, the martyred Palestinian people.

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