What about our children?
Backbench MPs get a $20,000 pay rise while 23,000 more children enter poverty.
That parliamentarians can accept a substantial pay rise while increasing numbers of Kiwi families are struggling to make ends meet tells you everything you need to know about the ideology of self- interest that underpins Neoliberal economics and politics.
Reward the haves, ignore the have nots or, better still, punish them at any opportunity and promote …