@andreablack.bsky.social
You are slowly climbing up. Next time youโll be first!
17.10.2025 11:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I don't understand Charter Schools, don't they just prove if you spend more per child they will get better outcomes? Where is Act in this whole thing saying the state should pay more per child? Lets just spend that much on all the kids #NZPol
12.09.2025 02:33 โ ๐ 134 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 0I think what Nicola Willis fails to understand is just how many folk around the motu are feeling that they, National, really over promised and have under delivered on everything. That Working for Families up to $250 per week where literally no one got $250 just sums it up perfectly #NZPol
21.08.2025 01:53 โ ๐ 66 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Complaining that our education system is "too flexible" while opening charter schools for "greater flexibility": make your minds up dickweeds #nzpol
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A story in 4 parts
07.07.2025 20:14 โ ๐ 156 ๐ 64 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0Funny thing is: Loved the dress Budget not so much.
25.05.2025 00:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Lolsob development: my tax cut from last year is almost exactly the same amount as the extra 1% I'll have to give to Kiwisaver to make up for the government's smaller contribution
Pay go up; pay go down a year later
Government mulls limiting ACC cover as rape victimโs court win exposes insurer to costly claims Jenรฉe Tibshraeny By Jenรฉe Tibshraeny Wellington Business EditorยทNZ Heraldยท 16 May, 2025 05:21 PM
Women may be in the Governmentโs firing line again, as it mulls another law change to curtail runaway costs. Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Scott Simpson is considering narrowing the scope of what the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) covers, after this was dramatically broadened by a 2023 court ruling. The Court of Appeal ruled that victims of sexual abuse were entitled to compensation for loss of potential earnings from the time they were abused. Previously, they could seek compensation only from the time they sought treatment. Last year, ACC put nearly $3.6 billion aside to cover the current and future costs of claims related to existing victims who could now make claims because of the new interpretation of the law. Finance Minister Nicola Willis was so worried about the effect that ACCโs rising claims costs would have on her commitment to get the Governmentโs books out of the red that she came up with a new way of calculating the Governmentโs budget deficit/surplus that excludes ACC.
Speaking to media today, she said the Cabinet had yet to consider potential changes to ACC, so any savings wouldnโt be booked in this yearโs Budget, to be announced next Thursday. Changes to pay equity legislation, rushed through Parliament under urgency last week, will improve the look of the books come Budget Day. The changes limit the pay rises for which allegedly underpaid people in female-dominated sectors could be eligible.
Coming back to ACC, Simpson assured the Herald that people who needed support would still receive it. The question was whether other government agencies were better placed to support those who fell under ACCโs jurisdiction. The compensation people could receive from ACC for being unable to work due to injury, including sexual abuse, could be greater than the welfare payments they received via the Ministry of Social Development. Beatrix Woodhouse โ the lawyer who represented the woman at the centre of the precedent-setting 2023 ruling โ was disappointed the Government was considering a law change. She believed ACC hadnโt been particularly proactive, promoting the fact that victims who werenโt previously eligible for cover could now be compensated. She said she had struggled to get ACC to properly backpay claimants. Last year, ACC estimated there were about 100,000 abuse victims who would become eligible under the new interpretation of the law. It said it was gearing up to manage a flurry of these sensitive claims.
These fucking cunts! They are absolutely shitting themselves at having to give us what we are due. We need to get them running scared! #PayEquity #Survivors #NZPol
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I dunno, I kinda feel like suspending MPs for SEVEN TIMES as long as the previous longest suspension in Parliament's entire history, forcing them to be without pay for three weeks, is way more contemptuous of Parliament than momentarily disrupting proceedings to make a point.
#nzpol
Brooke Van Veldon,
"Expect the same pay this week to next week."
Women,
"I believe this is the crux of the problem Minister."
#NZPol #PayEquityNow #PayEquityNZ #PayEquity
A teacher standing in front of a chalkboard smiling at her class. On the blackboard it says, "If your job comes with an Appreciation Week you're probably NOT getting paid enough!"
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The Women going to the Sepulchre, 1912, Robert Anning Bell Painting of women in blue garments walking leftward, one woman, and then five behind her, on a flat plain, hazy sky ....
Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.
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Hard to have much faith in an outfit who double the cost of the Golden Mile, ignore the facts that half the project is government funded, that work is contracted and starting, and that itโs capital expenditure so has little rates impact anyway. Zero rates? Zero clue mate.
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#47AmostKilledTheEconomy
13.04.2025 14:56 โ ๐ 833 ๐ 180 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 2But they have spectacular geniuses Rebecca! Whatโs not to love?
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