Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Dissatisfaction with the Wellington City Council has hit new highs. The Council has just released the results of its annual survey of residents, which shows just how much discontent there is in the city. Overall, Wellingtonians seem to feel that the city is broken
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HOUSING Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government to ‘flood’ cities with more housing by liberalising planning rules Luke Malpass (Post): Chris Bishop to set out radical land use and planning reforms (paywalled) RNZ: Minister announces new Kāinga Ora board, lays out 'expectations' 1News: Construction
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Fixing New Zealand’s rail and ferry infrastructure is becoming the most significant political issue of this year. Having cancelled KiwiRail’s Cook Strait ferry and portside upgrade programme in December without first establishing a Plan B, Finance Minister Nicola Willis has since been
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards MEDIA Duncan Greive (Spinoff): An abrupt U-turn from National, a brave new world for news in New Zealand Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Ministers will shake the Facebook and Google money tree for NZ media RNZ: 'Terrible precedent' - Expert concerns about Fair Digital
Professor Rex Ahdar University of Otago Forget the NBA or NHL Finals. Who cares about UEFA Euro 2024 and the Super Rugby Pacific semi-finals? We have the Intersectionality Playoffs 2024. Despite a poor regular season, the Free Palestine coalition have made it through to their first semi-finals in
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
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
