Slavery, for many, will seem easier than struggling, and far safer. Once dependent, the luxury of struggling may be gone. We need a real conversation before we turn irretrievably down that road. For most, that will probably not happen.
You’ll be amazed at what free people can build when they’re left alone to pursue truth over fashion and value over virtue‑signalling.
The two allies will invest $1b in projects to boost Australia’s processing.
Nature is not socialist. It’s cooperative, but only when cooperation benefits the whole. It’s not about forced redistribution. It’s about contribution to the ecosystem.
There are no secrets, but, if there were, no one knows anything about them. And this is the point. This is how secrecy works in a modern process organisation.
Resources Minister Shane Jones has departed for the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) in Sydney, where he will speak about the “resource renaissance” underway in New Zealand, marked by rising interest in gold and other minerals.
As Washington and Beijing exchange economic fire, it is the periphery – Southeast Asia, India, Australasia – that absorbs the blast and finds new room to grow. The new trade map of the 2020s is not drawn along ideological lines but logistical ones.
Many researchers, health professionals and journalists, dependent on pharmaceutical funding or institutional support, have every incentive to avoid pursuing or amplifying questions that could threaten their livelihoods.
It’s a strategic blunder – swapping value-added clout for commodity vulnerability.
In New Zealand, we have gone from a country that produced electricity with internationally competitive pricing, electricity that was available, affordable and was an attractive incentive to new businesses. Now we face unaffordable pricing that is causing business closures.
The moral argument for free markets is backed by solid evidence.
Energy costs are rising so fast in Australia, it’s less expensive to dig up rocks, put them on ships, and send them 6,000 kilometers to China to smelt the steel with our own coal, and then ship the widgets right back to us.
