voicesforfreedom.co.nz Information Opinion The roulette wheels aren’t the only thing spinning at NZ’s largest casino, SkyCity. SkyCity’s Communications Team is in PR-spin overdrive with the latest offering from the Public Relations Institute of NZ (PRINZ): Collective Immunity Protects our Community – an afternoon of tone-
Remember when science fiction promised us we’d all be working less and less in the future? Sure, that one worked out about as well as the flying cars. (Mind you, it also debunks the endless, “Robots is gonna terk er jerbs!” fear-mongering, so, potayto, potahto.) But, as some
It’s happened again: “get woke, go broke”. Much as some folk are gloating, though, the harsh reality is that up to 75 workers in a small town are out of a job, thanks to a decision they had nothing to do with them. The Canadian dairy behind Cheers [sic]
Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. Elon Musk reaffirmed his commitment to free speech in a meeting with advertisers Wednesday.
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz The corporate retail banks are making mega profits on the back of Government policies and indirect subsidies of recent years. As a result, there are calls from across almost the whole political spectrum for greater regulation of the banking
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments Have you noticed recently how many shops have signs wanting staff? How many tradesmen are hard to hire
Michael P. Cameron University of Waikato Michael P. Cameron is an associate professor in economics at the University of Waikato. He is also a research fellow in Te Ngira – Institute for Population Research the National, and was a PGDA Visiting Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. After a complicated, winding, and tense standoff between Musk and the Twitter board, as well as a pending legal trial at a Delaware Chancery Court, the eccentric billionaire
David Wood Timaru Businessman, Historian, Sociologist Personal observations on Climate Change following the meeting at Caroline Bay on September 21st, 2022 Hosted by Timaru District Council Professor James Renwick (Atmosphere), Professor Tim Naish (Oceans & Coastline), Professor Bronwyn Hayward (Social Impacts), Peter Cochraine (Canterbury Risk Assessment) and Mr James Driver
Elon Musk has changed Twitter. In addition to job cuts, he has changed the revenue model by moving from an advertising model to a user-based model. Verified users will pay US$8 to keep their blue check and the check will finally be available to the ordinary user on
Birsen Filip mises.org Birsen Filip holds a PhD in philosophy and master’s degrees in economics and philosophy. She has published numerous articles and chapters on a range of topics, including political philosophy, geo-politics and the history of economic thought, with a focus on the Austrian School of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Wellington commercial real estate agent Chris Gollins certainly secures some interesting properties to sell. Currently he’s advertising a strata floor for sale in a multi-level Lower Hutt office building “as is, where is”. The “where is” clearly implies a capability to shift it
David Stockman brownstone.org David Stockman, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is the author of many books on politics, finance, and economics. He is a former congressman from Michigan, and the former Director of the Congressional Office of Management and Budget. He runs the subscription-based analytics site ContraCorner. Wow,
Let us go back to the boring subject of tax… except that it is not boring if you have to pay it, and it is anything but boring if you have to pay too much of it. The Greens are out of their box again, determined to tax anyone that
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Sometime after Canada’s Thanksgiving Day on October 10, a 37-year-old woman named Jennyfer was euthanised. A few days later, on October 24, one of Canada’s best-known fashion retailers, Quebec-
