#Labour

"The Wrecking Crew: How the New Zealand Initiative's Atlas Network Puppets Are Cheering the Destruction of 9,000 Whānau Livelihoods" - 20 May 2026

Corporate-funded ideologues celebrate mass unemployment while Māori workers and vulnerable communities bleed — and New Zealand's media calls it analysis.

Slashing public sector jobs the right move, New Zealand Initiative saysBut the Public Service Association called the plans an “act of wilful destruction” which would decimate crucial services.RNZRNZ Newsslashing of nearly 9,000 public sector jobsRNZBryce Edwards at the Democracy Project

"THE SINKING LID: NICOLA WILLIS FIRES 8,700 WORKERS WHILE WHĀNAU STARVE" - 20 May 2026

I, Ivor Jones — Te Māori Green Lantern — am done being polite about a white supremacist neoliberal government that is dismantling the Crown's own Treaty obligations while the polls show the people ar…

Nearly 9000 public sector jobs to go, government agencies to merge, Nicola Willis announcesAlmost 9000 jobs to go as the government looks to merge agencies and increase the use of AI and other digital tools.RNZJo MoirRNZReutersWaatea News