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
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
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
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
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
Why is a Council flush with funds putting up rates so much?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Helen Clark and Don Brash (Herald): Aukus and NZ: We should have no part of any military-related arrangements against China (paywalled) Gordon Campbell: On why we shouldn’t buy new planes for the PM Anneke Smith (RNZ): Inside the Defence Force's 757 planes: Breaking down the details
The Grampus I recently received a lengthy questionnaire from the Christchurch City Council (CCC) about what the council and individuals could do to mitigate climate change and reduce our emissions and so forth. I was aware the CCC did have an investment in reducing climate change and that significant monies
Dan Dempsey The first thing you experience while shopping in New Zealand supermarkets is the fruit and vegetable department (unless you shop at Pak’nSave where you are bombarded with stacked cartons of the week’s discounted items). Consider that most of what you see there, handled and placed in
Seymour correct to ask the question
