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Crown to appeal decision that carer parents should be paid
The Crown is appealing a landmark Human Rights Review Tribunal decision enabling parents caring for severely disabled adult children to be paid.
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ACC's 'offensive' email
An ACC staff member emailed a recent widow saying: "Just so you know ... I am not God and therefore I do not determine when people live or die".
![Politics 2009: Key, Goff and the recession](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Politics 2009: Key, Goff and the recession
A new PM defied the odds as the Govt struggled to deal with the worst recession in decades, and Labour played catch up politics.
![<i>Deborah Hill Cone:</i> Barbs, bemusements and bollockings](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
<i>Deborah Hill Cone:</i> Barbs, bemusements and bollockings
That's it then - another year of spouting, pronouncing and sticking the occasional spanner in the works.
![$1300 for each of us - what ACC will cost](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
$1300 for each of us - what ACC will cost
Steep rises in levies mean a person on the average wage with one car will pay $1300 to ACC each year - $180 more than they do now.
!['Charter for rapists' - critics savage ACC](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
'Charter for rapists' - critics savage ACC
Therapists and counsellors say tight new rules for claiming ACC subsidies for sexual abuse counselling have become "a rapists' charter"
![Lockwood Smith, PM top performers in pundit's rankings](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Lockwood Smith, PM top performers in pundit's rankings
Speaker Lockwood Smith has dethroned Prime Minister as 2009's top parliamentary performer, a newsletter claims.
![ACC, Super Fund prop up Govt books as tax take dwindles](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
ACC, Super Fund prop up Govt books as tax take dwindles
The investment portfolios of ACC and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund continued to prop up the government's books as corporate and personal tax revenues dwindled, says Treasury.
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Govt scaremongering over ACC levy hikes - Labour
Opposition ACC spokesman David Parker is accusing the Government of misrepresenting ACC's position to soften up the public for major cuts to ACC entitlements.
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ACC continues push for levy hikes
ACC is still pushing for a large increase in levies, despite a storm of protest over the size of the hikes proposed.
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ACC levy rises intended to boost reserves
Around 90 per cent of the increases in next year's ACC levies arise from a more conservative approach to ensuring the scheme is adequately funded.