“The Green Party would phase in five weeks of annual leave. We will provide organisations plenty of notice and ensure the full five weeks is available for everyone by the end of 2025,” [Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson] said. She said Aotearoa is not currently “working for all working people”
Look at them: look at them and laugh. Big businesses thought that nauseating virtue-signalling over an endless parade of Current Things would make the left like them. Now they’ve got a socialist left government in power and they’re quickly learning just how recklessly stupid they’ve really been.
Groucho Marx famously didn’t want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. For Australia’s political elites, it’s more a case of desperately wanting the perks of a club they publicly profess to loathe. Forget the Melbourne Club, the Atheneum, or the Tattersall’
Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on New Zealand’
It’s an odd thing: the very people who wax apoplectic that “corporations aren’t people!” also expect corporations to act like people. Because, here’s the thing: only people can make moral judgements. So, when activists blither about “corporate social responsibility”, “triple bottom line”, and “social licence”, they’re
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I was surprised by how much generally favourable attention Mohamad AI Fayed received following his death at 94. I had an amusing exchange with him in the late 1980s. This followed a situation of my own making when I’d arrived in London on a Saturday
Aaron Gilbert Ayesha Scott Auckland University of Technology There are few stores without an Afterpay logo displayed on the door, or that don’t offer Laybuy at their online checkout. And these schemes are particularly popular with younger consumers. But what price might these buyers be paying for the conveniences
Something happens to the very rich, to their detriment: they lose the presence of people to tell them, “No”. When, as invariably happens, the wealthy and powerful surround themselves with sycophants, there’s no one around them willing to tell them, “That’s a stupid idea. You’re making an
David Bell David Bell, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in
Simon Black Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur and a free man. His daily e-letter, Sovereign Letters, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom, more opportunity and more
After a week’s worth of skirmishes with customer service providers, I am heavily of the opinion that the idiots I spoke to this week should change their department titles from “Customer Services” to “Please Go Away, We Don’t Want to Help”. Customer service is extinct. Naturally, companies are
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz National is not only winning the race towards the general election finish line, but is also miles
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com David Seymour makes no bones about his desire to clean up the grossly excessive bureaucracy. Some of his expressed goals, such as wiping out the farcical Women’s Affairs Department, an agency set up in the 1980s by the then Labour Government as a sop to
Michael Matulef Mike works in construction by day and is an independent student of Austrian Economics by night. Mike associates philosophically with crypto-anarchism and is interested in learning how Bitcoin and other open source technologies can create parallel systems based on consent rather than coercion. mises.org The Constitution “is
Meryl Nass Dr Meryl Nass, MD is an internal medicine specialist in Ellsworth, ME, and has over 42 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1980. brownstone.org This report is designed to help readers think about some big topics:
Kristen Schiele Kristen Schiele specialises in the areas of digital marketing and social media, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Marketing Educators’ Association. Dr Schiele is co-author of the Mobile Marketing Essentials textbook, and frequently speaks on current and emerging trends in user experience and human-centred design.
