Regards Free Trade, Did NZ Get Conned by the European Union?
Our trade agreement with it cost our government $280 million a year.
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RFK Jr Attacked for His Stance on Psychotropic Meds
Why are these legislators so adamantly defending what is widely acknowledged as the rampant over-prescription of psychiatric drugs? Could it have anything to do with their deep ties to Big Pharma lobbyists?
Health NZ Team Knows Next to Nothing About Healthcare
The PM and finance minister have done nothing to shake up the inbred culture of Wellington’s civil service. All the talk about the need for innovation and restoring NZ’s mojo, yet it’s the same types in charge.
Te Pāti Māori’s Ongoing Financial Accountability Issues
If Te Pāti Māori continues down its current path of delays, omissions, and nonchalant defiance, it risks far more than a warning – it risks legal penalties and, more importantly, a tarnished reputation in the eyes of the public.
China, Throw Down your Wall
Give freedom to your people. Doing so will eliminate America’s trade deficit with your nation and end the tariffs.
America’s Last Stand: China’s Smart Battery Dominance
This IPO represents a strategic catastrophe. It enables China’s geopolitical ascent, legitimizes corporate espionage, and compromises America’s technological edge.
A Solution for Mowbray’s Problem
Move your factories to NZ and get a 10 per cent tariff, not China’s 145 per cent rate.
Making Big Tobacco Look like Angels
Social media companies like Meta are little short of evil.
Some Generations Are More Cynical
Gen X and Gen Z have more in common that what you may think. Here’s why.
Integrity Briefing: Banking lobbyists 1, Justice 0
Let’s call this what it is: a rule-of-law rollback for the sake of two banks’ bottom lines. If a well-connected litigant can get the legislature to retroactively rewrite the law in their favour, how can the public have confidence in the independence of justice?
For the Love of Tariffs
The outrage over Trump’s protectionism is so hypocritical and self serving from every quarter that I hope he wins and rewrites the rulebook on global trade.
Tariffs Personally Cost Trump $500M – Forbes
The US president’s wave of duties on imports has roiled stock markets.
