Peter Murphy papundits.wordpress.com Peter Murphy is a CFACT analyst, and he has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy. He previously wrote and edited The Chalkboard weblog for the New York Charter Schools Association, and has been published in numerous
Press Release: National Party The first full week of lockdown cost nearly 400 New Zealanders their jobs every day, National’s Finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. Statistics from the Ministry for Social Development show that in the week till 21 August a total of 2,717 Kiwis joined the now
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Seven people died on New Zealand roads on the weekend. That was not a headline story. But imagine if seven people had died of the COVID virus. We’d be back to full lockdown panic mode. From the beginning, back eight months, all governments were
Dr Oliver Hartwich nzinitiative.org.nz Walking around central Wellington, more shops are boarded up. On Lambton Quay, two bank branches recently disappeared. Just as the two Burger Kings on Lambton Quay and Courtney Place. Walking down Featherston St, there are empty shops every 40 or 50 metres. Reports from
Roger Partridge nzinitiative.org.nz In mid-April, German sewerage experts were allowed through New Zealand’s tightly controlled border with the country still locked down at Alert Level 4. At the time, Wellington ratepayers were paying nearly $100,000 a day to ferry wastewater by truck from the city’s
Judith Collins National Party Leader national.org.nz A National Government will facilitate negotiations between Rio Tinto, power companies and Transpower to achieve a more cost-competitive environment to keep the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter open. New Zealand is losing thousands of jobs every week due to the largest economic crisis
The work is being done in Phil Twyford’s office. More alarm bells are ringing. Twyford says the work is at an early stage. If that’s the case then it’s not too late to stop it. This should be done immediately. The last thing we need is the
A consortium of nineteen major businesses have banded together to take Hamilton City Council to court in a case that will have implications for all councils. The subject matter is a judicial review of the council’s ‘development contributions policies’. Before your eyes glaze over, there is a simple explanation.
Another day, another announcement that more jobs in Australia and New Zealand are being killed off by the Wuhan pandemic. To add insult to injury in this case, though, they’re not disappearing, they’re moving. Right to the communist nation that unleashed the pandemic in the first place. Vitamins
For years, Australians have watched with helpless fury as more and more Australian businesses and real estate were taken over by Chinese-owned firms. This is not reciprocal trade or foreign investment: it’s a rapacious grab by the communist giant (even “private” Chinese companies are, by law, overseen by the
Press Release: ACT Party “The Ministry of Health’s opaque process for Auckland travel exemptions is suffocating local businesses,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government needs to be open and transparent about how efficiently the process is working. “How many applications for exemptions have been received, approved and declined?
Dear Editor Ever heard the story of Emperor Nero burning down Rome? The story goes that he fiddled while it fell to ashes. They say he set it on fire himself. A myth on the fiddling part maybe, but Rome did burn. New Zealand’s government is effectively willfully burning
Finance Minister Grant Robertson says for the most part Auckland businesses have coped well with the lockdown. How would he know that living in his bubble in Wellington? What about all the Mums and Dads trying to balance life at the moment?
