Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HOUSING Dan Brunskill (Interest): An unlikely coalition of New Zealand voters are backing Housing Minister Chris Bishop’s mission to bring down house prices Susan Edmunds (RNZ): House prices need to fall 'a further 16%' to become affordable 1News: Tumultuous time for
THERE ARE LESSONS to be learned from the Biden-Trump debate/debacle. Important lessons, which New Zealanders would be most unwise to ignore. The first and most important of these is the need to face some harsh truths.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT Luke Malpass (Post): KiwiRail, iRex and how not to get a minister to agree with you (paywalled) Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): NZ spends so much on infrastructure, yet gets so little (paywalled) Georgina Campbell (Herald): Why cancellation of Cook Strait mega ferry contract
JM White It is best to marry someone you have grown to know well over the years, preferably from childhood. That way there are no horrid little surprises waiting in the wings during – or after – the honeymoon. But, no matter how long you have known him, there is always the
Tani Newton The State of Louisiana has passed a law requiring all public school classrooms to display a copy of the Ten Commandments, sparking the predictable fury and the usual claims that the state legislature is violating the First Amendment to the Constitution and the principle of the separation of
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THREE WATERS Georgina Campbell and Azaria Howell (Herald): Wellington City Council passes long-term plan, avoids Government intervention Erin Gourley (Post): Not the end for Wellington Airport shares, mayor's opponents say (paywalled) RNZ: Bid to stop Wellington Airport share sale fails
Republished with Permission Author: Chris Trotter HAVE WE MOVED past peak progressivism? Across the planet, there are signs that the surge of support for left-wing causes and personalities, exemplified by the election of the democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) to the US House of Representatives in 2018, is fast
Mark Freeman A Nelson-based group running community outreaches to the vaccine-injured says people are now more willing to receive support than previously. The Vaccine-Impacted Support network (VISn), a group of holistic health practitioners and counsellors, was started in 2021 by Covid-mandated professionals. Every week the group set up their outreach
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards CORRECTIONS, JUSTICE, POLICE Kelly Dennett (Post): What the Government won’t solve with its tough-on-crime groupthink (paywalled) Aaron Hendry (Newsroom): Try the youth crime approaches that work Thomas Manch (Post): Tougher sentencing to put 1400 more people in prison (paywalled) Laura Walters (Newsroom): The
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Key Facts * Allegations arose in early March that Green MP Darleen Tana had been involved in migrant exploitation before her election to Parliament. * On 14 March, the Green Party commissioned a lawyer to investigate the allegations and suspended Tana. * This week, further information has
JM White Do you recall the shooting of PM Fico of Slovakia? The MSM stated he was shot because he was against supplying weapons to Ukraine and was therefore a supporter of Russia. But Fico was also an ardent opponent of the WHO Pandemic Treaty and the revised WHO International
Tani Newton Te Pati Maori’s call for a separate Maori Parliament may sound treasonous to some. To others, it is just another episode in the long and mildly sad story of a basically happy country that longs for a unity it can never quite achieve. Hobson’s promise, “We
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FERRIES, KIWIRAIL, INFRASTRUCTURE Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Politicians are failing to put the national interest first in infrastructure Gordon Campbell: On cancer drugs, and the Great Ferries Cancellation Disaster of ’23 Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon assures he 'knows how to deliver economics'
There is a growing consensus that the current ferry buying conundrum epitomises that successive governments that have deferred investment in infrastructure, running the country into the ground.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FERRIES, INFRASTRUCTURE ODT Editorial: Ferry buyers needed, not tyre kickers (paywalled) Glenn McConnell (Stuff): What politicians would do to save the Interislander Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Nicola Willis is having a ferry problem Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Treasury turns to KPMG principal for ferry
Why is a Council flush with funds putting up rates so much?
