UK government implements cuts in South East London Healthcare Trust
The coalition government is to press ahead with serious cuts to heath services in south east London.
•Rick Wilson
Rick Wilson
Thousands mass outside Ecuadorean embassy to support Assange
Two thousand protesters massed outside the Ecuadorean embassy in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
•Daniel O’Flynn, Rick Wilson
Recession in New Zealand deepens
Despite media praise lavished on a late December retail “boom”, New Zealand’s economy shrank for the third consecutive quarter in the three months to September.
•Tom Peters, Rick Wilson
The 2008 New Zealand “Rich List”: the super-wealthy profit from recession
The National Business Review’s (NBR)2008 Rich List, released July 25, reveals that New Zealand’s super-rich have been thoroughly insulated from the effects of the current recession.
•Tom Peters, Rick Wilson
New Zealand universities shed “non-core” courses
The University of Canterbury (UC) and Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) will announce decisions on course-cutting during the coming mid-term break.
•Tom Peters, Rick Wilson