Faced with a perfect storm of falling poll numbers, rising and rampant inflation and poor, reactive decisions of their own making, the Labour Government has been forced to roll over fuel excise and road user charge cuts yet again. They’ve painted themselves into a corner on fuel prices, and
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an editorial fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. A new start-up called Percy is based on a simple yet revolutionary idea: virtual cashiers. Essentially, a video calling device is
Peter Jacobsen fee.org Peter Jacobsen teaches economics at Ottawa University where he holds the positions of Assistant Professor and Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research at the Gwartney Institute. He received his graduate education George Mason University and received his undergraduate education Southeast Missouri State University. His research
The rag-bag of nonentities, pygmies, incompetents and narcissists who constitute the Christchurch City Council voted 13 to 3 for the oft-discussed stadium project to proceed, although why it has a silly name of “tea trolley” or “tea cart” (or something like that) is beyond me. As a simple,
With your help Discrimination of the Day will become a regular segment on The BFD. A reader drew our attention to this discrimination against the unvaccinated and partially vaxxed and we will highlight any others that our readers send to us. Let’s highlight the racism and discrimination inside New
Sir Robert Muldoon, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, always used to say that if you don’t have any enemies in politics then “you’re no bloody good“; oh so true – especially in his case when he caused certain people (of the Douglas, Bassett, Moore, Rowling variety) to waste
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The Prime Minister’s recent visit to Washington, during which she seemed to have signed New Zealand up as a strongly pro-US outpost in the South Pacific
Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz Warning Satire WATCH OUT SUPERMARKETS! Consumer Affairs Minister David Clark is making the big plays at the moment. Clark yesterday announced the new role of Grocery Commissioner to crack down on New Zealand’s supermarket duopoly. Labour have unsurprisingly talked a big game about making a
For around a century, and rightly so, New Zealand was governed with the farming interests foremost in the minds of successive governments; what rural interests wanted – went. This ended with the “War on Farming” initiated by the Lange Government, continued by the Clark Government, and most notably in recent years
New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) Existing government measures won’t stop one of our fastest-growing sectors moving to Australia.“Existing government policies won’t stop New Zealand gaming and interactive media companies from choosing to expand in Australia instead of New Zealand,” New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA)
Information Opinion Queen’s Birthday 1998 was an interesting three-day experience which opened my eyes to all manner of things. I realise this may sound a bit odd, but that weekend was the first time I had ever experienced how “ordinary people” (around 90% of the population) live; their
John Tamny brownstone.org John Tamny is Senior Scholar of the Brownstone institute, editor of RealClearMarkets, and Vice President at FreedomWorks Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane always marvels at the simplistic thought processes of economic reporters and commentators. It truly mystifies him that they still spill so much ink
Hey! You wanna come to New Zealand? It is a great place to visit! Please come on over – we would be delighted to see you. But there is just one thing. We are slightly short on workers right now, so how about… you change your own sheets? We’ll give
The Immigration Minister’s comments that employers across the tourism sector are struggling to hire staff because of low wages and insecure working conditions are unhelpful, insulting to business owners and an attempt to distract from the Government’s immigration failures, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “Through no
