Loosen the purse strings, Minister, the rainy day has come

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Loosen the purse strings, Minister, the rainy day has come

Barbara Docherty

Barbara Docherty

nurses strike, Auckland July 2018
Nurses marching down Queen Street on 12 July

Nurses are not giving up their pay demands and the Government would do well to prioritise them against demands for fighter planes and protecting Antarctica, writes Barbara Docherty

Keeping something for a rainy day has merit but not if the major storm brewing could have been prevented We now have to wait until next Tuesday t