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Creating New Zealand With a Buzzy Bee and Lake Wakatipu
British colleagues may see an interesting New Zealand toy. Kiwis see childhood, relatives, old houses, noisy wooden floors and the possibility that one is still sitting in a cupboard at Mum’s place beneath several things nobody has touched since the Clark government.
‘It’s the Peaceful Solution’
Frenchwoman calls for mass deportations after days of rioting.
Why Didn’t My Generation Change the World?
Some surprising facts about the Baby Boomers.
The National Party Left Me
Nicola Willis, deputy leader of the National Party made it clear she did NOT want to ‘associate’ herself with Kiwis mandated out of their jobs and/or suffering financial hardship and loss after months of punishing lockdowns.
Crown Asset or Financial Fiction?
If we don’t stand up and demand real structural change now, we are flat out robbing our children’s future to pay for today’s political PR stunts, and the taxpayers will be the ones sent straight to jail without passing GO.
Election 2026: I Feel Your Pain
Australians have been shafted plenty, at the last few elections.
Quick Hit: Quarter-Trillion and No Books
Taxpayers’ Union puts Green promises at $236.7b, or $114,239 a household, after the passenger rail add. Swarbrick wants Finance. Full books still weeks away.
Welfare Is Missing From the Campaign
Dragging eyes away from aimless, spirit-sapping, benefit-dependence towards resented superannuitants might play well politically, but it won’t address the disaster that welfarism is. Who is going to talk about it?
If the Plan Matches National’s, the Bill Is What Labour Is Hiding
Labour kept Willis’s $2.4b allowance, hit surplus in the same year, costed one pay equity claim, and parked the rest in $10.5b of “headroom”. Luxon v Hipkins is Tuesday. Ask who signed the IOU.
Good Oil General Debate
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Ratbag of the Day
Hill says the sale of the property was invalid and was subject to proceedings in the Māori Land Court. The bank’s solicitors say it is not Māori land.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… apiary (noun) - : a place where bees are kept, especially : a collection of hives or colonies of bees kept for their honey Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Beekeeping, or apiculture, is the care of honeybees that ensures that they produce more honey than they can use. An