The Hand Mirror

Behind the Brands – part of Oxfam’s  GROW campaign to fix the broken food system  – for the first time ranks the agricultural policies, p...

On Monday the NZ Herald started a week-long series looking at the gap between rich and poor in Auckland.  On the first day they examined two...

a couple of links on women's participation in politics and business. first this call for more women to have strong political roles: Mo...

gift duty is set to be abolished later this year. the due date is 1 october, but with all the fluffing around & the various issues to b...

some budget links that might be of interest. here's pinky agnew at the pre-budget protest of around 1500 people, with a poem: here's...

it's been a little while since i posted here - partly because of blogger going pear-shaped last week but mostly because we have been hav...

i was directed to this article by silvia federici, which discusses the concept of paying wages for housework, and other issues around the s...

Cross posted The Welfare Working Group was established by Cabinet: ... to undertake an expansive and fundamental review of New Zealand’s we...