Stephen Berry is compiling this guide on the Auckland Local Body elections as an independent commentator. His recommendations are based on his own research and are not on behalf of any organisation. P
For true political tragics like myself, election night will provide some excitement purely from the delight of watching data trickle in. However, the preceding few months promise to be an extraordinary bore.
If you have the gall to claim you are oppressed by freedom… maybe it’s your fault.
They will fail to do what they were elected to do: they will achieve few reforms and drag out the economic pain caused by the previous Labour Government.
Australia has very few free-speech protections and it doesn’t need the prime minister making knee-jerk attacks on what exists to look tough on the domestic stage.
Government action to protect people from scams and bank fees may sound noble but freedom in stable liberal democracies is not lost in one fell swoop.
If you’ve decided to let the state raise your children for you, then you deserve every piece of fascism you receive.
Not only is a government advisory body headed by Elon Musk likely to result in record volumes of leftist tears, it may well prove to be the most radical reform by any president since Ronald Reagan.
Will Trump make the best use of winning the opportunity of the century to fix the government books? Only the next four years will tell.
What we know for sure is that, eventually, it will be defined and enforced by the last people you’d ever want to.
This government is anti-union because it is good for workers; the unions will throw as many of their members as necessary under a steamroller to hide that truth and maintain their power.
Based on that analysis of polling trends in the toss-up states, I think Trump will have the momentum to whittle down Harris’ shrinking margins in Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan.
While NZ’s National Government uses the cost-of-living crisis as justification to continue spending more than it takes in tax revenue, Argentina has a much more serious cost-of-living crisis that is fuelling President Milei’s determination to slash state spending to surplus levels within one year.
Profitable businesses are frequently targeted by politicians in an obscene exercise of vote gathering. However, unlike politicians, profitable businesses are absolutely essential to economic prosperity for everyone.
The Australian experience is a master class on how to deal with vaping badly. The New Zealand Government would do well to avoid heavy-handed regulation of vaping products, but, alas, I have little faith that they will do so.
