Disappointing start from Simeon Brown. Among the"everyday Kiwis" who make up the health workforce are tens of thousands of union members & delegates who, along with the "everyday Kiwis" who rely on them for care, deserve a lot better than this tired, old divisive rhetoric.

I share the Minister's views that men should juggle household and childcare responsibilities no less than women do but our legal case is grounded in the world as it actually is, not as we would like it to be.

IKR! It attempts to go much further than the Act provides here: