The transcript(and in English) of a meeting between Dubya and Spain’s former PM Jose Maria Aznar has been published and reveals some interesting stuff about the myriad of ways this bloody mess could have been avoided. The White House has not denied the authenticity of the material, and Bush has skipped town.
The bank workers’ union, Finsec, have a story about ANZ financing logging of old growth forests in Tasmania. We have criticized ANZ for providing financial services to Rimbunan Hijau, the Malaysian logging company that is clearing rainforests in PNG.
ANZ Group is again under pressure from environmental groups for its support of unsustainable logging. Last week BankTrack, […]
The really interesting aspect of the GP cap episode was John Key’s instinctive response at the press conference announcing the health proposals - the Standard has the tv3 video footage. He immediately jumped to an abstract theory of how markets work - people could just go to another doctor if they didn’t like the price - without understanding how […]
In spite of all the spin coming from the National Party, and its blog supporters over at KiwiBlog justifying the position of removing the cap on the cost of GP visits, National are now backing away from the position. This is good. We need to keep an eye on them to make sure they actually do change their position, rather […]