Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Labour went into the 2020 election promising to break up the supermarket duopoly and bring down the price of food. This policy is now essentially dead. The Commerce Commission’s final report into New Zealand’s uncompetitive supermarket sector
Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and
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 ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com My advice to anyone considering a change of telco: look before you leap. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know. So the cliché goes – and like most clichés, it has a core of truth. A couple of weeks ago,
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Burnt-out tanks in snowy landscapes, thousands scrambling across borders with their suitcases, soldiers handing out automatic rifles like lollies to civilians, young families huddled together in metro stations … These are the scenes being
Yeah, yeah, mega-rich corporation dudes are evil and all, but, seriously, how can we not be entertained by Daddy Elon? Sure, Tesla sucks, but SpaceX has done more for space travel in just the last few years than NASA has done in decades. Not only has SpaceX slashed the
David Seymour ACT Party Leader With 12,000 cases in the community and just 19 at the border ACT has all the rapid advice the Prime Minister needs about isolation and MIQ. Jacinda told Newshub Nation this morning that “We’ve actually asked our team of advisers we’re using,
After yesterday’s significant High Court judgment declaring the Ardern regime’s draconian vaccine mandates for Police and Defence Force personnel unlawful, there is now no legal reason to maintain the mandates. We already know that there is no scientific reason to maintain mandates. The judge was very clear, saying,
The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Team After seeing our NZ Bill of Rights kicked around like a trash can over the past two years, today gives us all hope that it’s actually worth something in the NZ Court of Law. Don’t know about you…but we could kiss
The left like to blatherskite about their “compassion” for the poor, the underprivileged and the working classes. The gap between their rhetoric and reality is directly proportional to how far they have their heads jammed up their own digestive tracts. Because the harsh truth is that, time and again, the
Rahul Sen Sadhana Srivastava Auckland University of Technology Rahul Sen brings a considerably rich experience of university teaching & learning, research and scholarship, as well as service to the profession in the field of international trade theory and policy, over his career spanning nearly 15 years. He is presently working
Tom Stacey Anglia Ruskin University Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain and Project Management, and module lead for Sustainable Transportation and Environmental Practice at the faculty of Business and Law at Anglia Ruskin University. Europeans and other western nations have dominated automotive excellence for over a century. Whether it is the
Pinki Virani mercatornet.com Pinki Virani is a writer, journalist, and human rights activist. She is the author of five books. She was India’s first woman editor of an evening newspaper. Last month the Government of India promulgated two important laws which were many years in the making about
Matt Judd Information Opinion We crossed a Rubicon a few years back. What year? I can’t really say. Maybe it happened gradually. Maybe it just happened all at once, while we were watching Australian Married At First Sight, or British Big Brother or something equally voyeuristic and empty. But
Keith Jacques is an absolute legend. He should be well supported for his heroic actions in feeding the masses at the protest. Donut Express, unlike most other businesses, moved closer to the protesters by setting up a food truck on Molesworth St and giving away free doughnuts. General manager of
