Media Release

While the NZ Labour administration touts its policies of zero tolerance for benefit fraud, the reality is quite different. Ministry of Social Development Chief Executive Peter Hughes has recently reinforced the organisation's policy of zero tolerance of fraud.

He advised last year that considerable resources had been invested in the prevention, detection and reduction of benefit fraud."For substantiated fraud where we can prove a person's intent to defraud, the Ministry seeks criminal prosecution, imprisonment, and the seizure of assets.

In a recent question put to Deputy Prime Minister Dr Michael Cullen about the potential of the public to lose confidence in the justice system if low-level fraud is not investigated, Dr Cullen responded by stating , “in terms of low-level fraud, the great bulk of it is probably investigated by the New Zealand Police”

Public Shaming of Ruddock – at the Toxteth 

Issued by Seekers of Justice 

The Treasurer of the NSW Underwater Hockey Commission, Marion Creser has been accused of Criminal Breach of Trust.

Television New Zealand filmed a story a about serious benefit fraud that took place over a period of 20yrs but decided not to screen it after seeing a picture of the smiling fraudster on crutches

27 Greenpeace activists are taking non-violent direct action to stop
climate-changing coal from being burnt at Eraring, Australia's most
polluting coal-fired power plant. The activists, including an ex-miner
from the Hunter Valley, have blockaded the coal supply to the plant by
locking on to the conveyor. The action comes as the Australian
government's climate change advisor Professor Ross Garnaut prepares to
deliver his Draft Climate Change Review.

Photos | Energy [r]evolution Live Reports

On June 27, three Hong Kong citizen journalists who have been registered with the Citizens’ Media Center (Sapporo) in Japan were detained by Immigration, and were on the verge of being deported. The following morning, Susan George (ATTAC France) was stopped and questioned at the airport. Ms George is 74 years old, and her detention demonstrates a lack of humanity on the part of authorities. Protest and Repression is escalating because the G8 is taking place in Japan, between the 7th and 9th of July in Hokkaido.

Japan Indymedia | Mobilization Video | G8 Media Network | No G8 Japan | Background: Resistance action against police in Kamagasaki