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Howard’s End – Is A Commissioner of Truth Needed?
Friday, 1 November 2002, 9:51 am | Maree Howard
What is happening to my country? Allegations of unfairness, incompetence and corruption at the Ministry of Fisheries, District Health Boards using dedicated mental health dollars for other purposes, doctors being advised to take legal advice before taking ... More >>
Howard's End: When Is A Review A Review?
Monday, 28 October 2002, 9:39 pm | Maree Howard
The battle between ACC and its claimants continues unabated with many now writing to Parliament wanting a right to be heard about their concerns following a select-committee meeting last week where ACC Minister Ruth Dyson, ACC Chair, David Caygill and CEO ... More >>
Howard's End: Media Mobilising Against ACC
Friday, 25 October 2002, 12:13 am | Maree Howard
With the latest scrutiny by The Press in Christchurch of the $3.8 billion ACC has invested, don't you just love it when the journalists from all sections of the media finally come together to expose the injustices being perpetrated by ACC and its subsidiary ... More >>
Howard's End: Beware those public-private partners
Wednesday, 23 October 2002, 9:35 am | Maree Howard
The saga of the Ross Armstrong affair has brought to light that legislation is almost ready to be introduced in Parliament to allow public-private partnerships. More >>
Howard's End: ACC’s Deeds Do Not Match Words
Monday, 21 October 2002, 8:47 am | Maree Howard
ACC claimants remain unconvinced with assurances from Minister Ruth Dyson that recent legislative changes and a number of other initiatives will ensure that assessments of claimants will be fair and independent. Claimants say the words of ACC do not ... More >>
No Surprise Military C4 Used in Bali Bombing
Thursday, 17 October 2002, 12:04 am | Maree Howard
News that the widely available military explosive C4 was likely used in the Bali massacre should not come as any surprise particularly when global arms manufacturers along with delegations and high-ranking military officials from 46 countries lined-up ... More >>
ACC Receives 1000 Submissions Over Levy Increases
Tuesday, 15 October 2002, 9:26 am | Maree Howard
BREAKING NEWS: ACC has revealed it received a record 1100 public submissions over its proposals to increase levies paid by motorists. Scoop's Maree Howard will be following this story closely as it develops. More >>
ACC Bullying - Our Patience Wears Thin
Monday, 14 October 2002, 9:15 am | Maree Howard
The patience of New Zealander's will be wearing rather thin with the Accident Compensation Corporation following the latest revelations over the weekend by the Sunday Star-Times that doctor's are putting some ACC case manager's on a black-list over their bullying. ... More >>
Howard's End: ACC Situation Report - Deteriorating
Monday, 30 September 2002, 2:32 pm | Maree Howard
The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) is again in the public spot-light following the release last week of the Annual Report of the Office of the Ombudsman who contemplated invoking its rarely-used powers of review because of on-going issues and the significant ... More >>
Howard's End: ACC - If It’s Broke, Fix It
Monday, 16 September 2002, 10:26 am | Maree Howard
If the Accident Compensation Corporation was a private company it would likely have no customers, MP's would be jumping up and down in the House over its behaviour and state-owned television, TV1, would be carrying programs on Fair Go, Holmes and Sunday ... More >>
Howard's End: The Iraq War Is Already Underway
Tuesday, 10 September 2002, 5:31 pm | Maree Howard
The global diplomatic flurry to gain U.N. support for an offensive against Iraq is a smokescreen and post-dates the start of the U.S. offensive which took place three months ago - not with a bang, but with little-publicised steps. Maree Howard ... More >>
Howard's End: ACC Victimisation
Monday, 9 September 2002, 10:10 am | Maree Howard
Imagine you have a good job and you've planned the lives of your family and your financial commitments around your success, but then your boss approaches you and says that from this afternoon, the law now requires that - through no fault of your ... More >>
Howard's End: The Battle For ACCountability
Monday, 26 August 2002, 9:23 am | Maree Howard
The public spotlight has again been turned on ACC after claimants discovered that its Board of Directors consists of some financial whizz-kids who, they allege, are allowing bad behaviour by ACC employees to continue unabated. More >>
Howard's End: ACC Patients To Become Guinea Pigs
Monday, 12 August 2002, 9:39 am | Maree Howard
Are injured New Zealanders who continue to suffer debilitating pain about to become experimental lab-rats for the rest of the world as the Accident Compensation Corporation plans to implement a nation-wide injection therapy programme next month? Maree Howard ... More >>
Howard's End: Law Drafting Mistakes & Haden Brown
Thursday, 8 August 2002, 12:19 am | Maree Howard
High Court Justice, Peter Salmon has publicly admitted that he made a mistake when he sentenced Haden Brown because he did not use the minimum non-parole provisions under the new Sentencing Act. Can we be surprised when some legislation coming from ... More >>
Howard's End: All Is Not Right In NZ Courts
Tuesday, 6 August 2002, 12:39 am | Maree Howard
No system of human justice is perfect, but we must all be concerned when the NZ Law Commission has received an unprecedented number of submissions who see the court system as expensive, slow, traumatising and exclusive when a devotion to justice ... More >>
Howard's End: The Joy Of Profit
Monday, 29 July 2002, 9:25 am | Maree Howard
Well, the election is over with the media, business and union lobby groups already offering their spin about which minor party might, or should, make it to the Cabinet table in the first Government of the new Millennium. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: Arrogance In the Public Service
Friday, 26 July 2002, 11:40 am | Maree Howard
When Minister's in this Government admit they have difficulty in getting public servants to listen and comply with their instructions, it's time for a new coalition Government of parties who are able to bring the public service bureaucrats under ... More >>
Howard’s End: Calling Young Westland Entrepreneurs
Thursday, 25 July 2002, 2:08 pm | Maree Howard
A business plan competition with $43,000 in prize-money aimed at 16-24 year-olds, is about to get underway in Westland District on the West Coast. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: Washed Down The Hokitika River
Thursday, 18 July 2002, 9:29 am | Maree Howard
An urgent plea for help to Labour Transport Minister Mark Gosche on behalf of a Hokitika resident whose home is threatened to be washed down the Hokitika river has so far gone unanswered. Maree Howard writes. More >>
