Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman.
Both Tasman nations are engaged in a numbers game but of different kinds. New Zealand is is counting down the days until the September election and crunching the electoral math. Australia is watching the daily new coronavirus case numbers, particularly in lockdowned Melbourne. All that and more on this week’s show.
These are the six key questions the antisemitism royal commission needs to answer.
The next time our leaders unveil a grand plan to fix this or ban that ‘for our own good’, let’s not be swept away by the warm and fuzzy intentions. Let’s ask the cold, hard questions: What will this really do? What’s the track record of such ideas? And above all, what new mess might this create?
It’s time for change. We need a massive cut in immigration. We need to stop propping up a Ponzi scheme university sector. We need assimilation. But Lord knows it would be miracle to expect this from the coalition.
Removing local supply for furniture, flooring, cladding, joinery, and structural applications does not eliminate demand – it displaces it offshore.
For five decades, the government built your body on bread.
We are left with another reminder that, when it comes to Covid vaccines, the threshold for dismissal remains lower than the threshold for scrutiny.
Ultimately solving this problem will come down to Congress. They have to be willing to do this. And for the most part, they aren’t. Too many of their constituents and donors make money off this graft, and a portion of the funds end up as campaign contributions.
So no, the US shouldn’t have done it. But the fact that it can get away with it means it did. My teacher would smile, shrug, and simply reply, “Well, that’s just how it works.”
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