Mary Lou McDonald: “We shouldn't have had industrial action on Wednesday, if the Government were doing its job and working constructively.”

You've known since June that a new pay deal had to be struck with the public sector workers. We find ourselves almost four months on, at the eleventh hour, on the brink of this strike action tomorrow. The reason we are here is because of a…

Less than two weeks to Budget day, what will Government do to get costs under control?

“There will be an enormous sense of relief within the community this evening.”

I really want to see them being constructive because it seems to me that they have been thus far playing a game of chicken with public sector workers.