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28 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
If it would all have been different but for a UN mandate for the Iraqi war, Secretary of State Powell simply should have worked harder. I do wonder what the Afghan based jihadists are fighting for given that punitive expedition had UN authorisation after 9/11.
Source: New Zealand Intelligence and Security Bill Government Bill As reported from the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee, Minority Report of the New Zealand Greens.
24 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
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in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace
Source: Sebastian Gorka Disagrees With Official Terrorism Statistics via Only 12% of Guantanamo Detainees Released by Obama Have Returned to the Battlefield | Mother Jones.
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Source: THE LIVING WAGE in the People-Centred, Smart Capital of Aotearoa/New Zealand Addressing inequality starting with Wellington City Council This report was prepared for Living Wage Wellington with the assistance of Prue Hyman, formerly Associate Professor of Economics and Gender and Women’s Studies at Victoria University of Wellington at https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/nzlivingwage/pages/129/attachments/original/1434872254/Living_Wage_Wellington_CC.pdf?1434872254
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Source: Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand THE LIVING WAGE MOVEMENT (undated).
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The report was my source for the Wellington Parking wardens not being rehired after their jobs were upgraded to a living wage job. The jobs were taken in house as a legal subterfuge to get around the inability to pay them the living wage when they are employed by Parkwise, a council contractor. The Local Government Act requires value for money to be secured if you pay more for a service.
Source: The campaign to become New Zealand’s first Living Wage council Living Wage Wellington’s journey with Wellington City Council — review of the first three years. Lyndy McIntyre Community organiser, Living Wage Movement Aotearoa NZ January 2016 no longer available at https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/nzlivingwage/pages/89/attachments/original/1456712781/Living_Wage_update_2016_FCSPRU_2.16.pdf?1456712781 via
23 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
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Source: Sky TV shares hammered, down 17 per cent – Business – NZ Herald News.
If the merger was anti-competitive, that means prices to consumers were supposed to go up., the competitors to the newly merged firm can follow these prices up and make more profits either through more effective collusion or by acting as the competitive fringe to a dominant firm.
23 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand Tags: antitrust economics, merger law enforcement
Why would rivals oppose reduced competition, which means they can put their prices up too? That is what reduced competition means.
22 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, politics - New Zealand
One of the things I noticed after coming to New Zealand was the petty veniality in government departments.
I noticed it in the first week when I discovered employers pay for farewells. No chance in Australia. We take them out for lunch, and we have a wipe round to pay for their lunch. If it was a retirement function, such as for a long serving employee, the senior staff would pay for it out of their own pocket. The taxpayer never ever paid.
Then I noticed that public servants would charge lunches with each other to their government credit card. They would buy wine.
It got worse when I noticed who went on overseas trips. When it was a more exotic location, a much more senior manager felt the need to represent his country. I thought most overseas travel was a waste of time so we actively avoided it and never proposed a trip.
Enthusiasm in the minister’s office for going to a rather boring International meeting picked up no end when they discovered it was in Istanbul.
Then to my astonishment, I found that government employees would take holidays at the end of their business travel. If you tried that in Australia, you would be fired. It would never be considered.
If you were on an interstate secondment, you are entitled to take leave equal to the amount of time you accrued while on that secondment.
Clearly, it would give an appearance of bias when you are writing the business case if you could get it business class air ticket to the other side of the world and then take a long holiday on the way back.
New Zealand seems to employ a lot of contractors as policy analysts. I have never heard of such things in Australia. If you could not recruit and retain enough analysts to work through peaks and troughs in the workload, you were not a very good manager. If it was a real crisis, you found someone who was not busy from within the organisation and had them seconded to your team.
In more than a few places, these contractors seemed to be good friends of the manager. These contractors can be hired so quickly and in such number that a new manager has no time to talk to his existing staff about what they do, what they might do or what skill sets they might have.
I was talking to a British colleague once about how he would always refuse any attempts by people to buy him lunch or a beer. Like me, he would be up the back eating his own sandwiches while the senior executives tucked into 3 course lunches provided by various lobby groups.
Until I came to New Zealand, the taxpayer had never bought me lunch, a beer, or an air ticket. I was very careful to refusal offers of hospitality from outsiders. If an offer was made, I thought they were up to something.
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