November, 2003

Christchurch, November 8, 2003

It is my honour and pleasure to once again bring warm greetings from the Council of Trade Unions.

I personally welcome this annual opportunity to address your conference.

Christchurch, November 8, 2003

It is my honour and pleasure to once again bring warm greetings from the Council of Trade Unions.

I personally welcome this annual opportunity to address your conference.

October 2003

Comment

The desperate coup that elevated Don Brash to lead the National Party heralds a more concerted push to win business confidence and investment in a political alternative to a Labour-led Government. Don Brash is polite, hard-working, and has a resolute determination to introduce a policy framework based on lower taxes (at least for those on high incomes), low regulation, privatisation, individualism and trickle-down economics. For an impression of what Don Brash supports, have a look at these quotes from his Orewa Rotary speech earlier this year.

Abolishing the unemployment benefit completely could not be done in isolation, "but it might well be done in conjunction with other measures, such as having local governments become employers of last resort - offering a job to anybody who turned up at, say, the local post office at 8am, with payment for that day's work at the end of the day, in cash".