In June of this year, government debt had ballooned to $102 billion, from $58 billion in 2019. Yes, there has been a pandemic, and the cost of wage subsidies, business support, medical equipment and setting up testing stations and MIQ has been considerable, but this was a huge jump by
Business of the Day is a new segment on The BFD where we promote businesses who have the strength of character to stand up for the basic human rights of their fellow human beings. The Black Shed Location: The Black Shed Napier is located at 36 Awatoto Road in Meeanee,
Jason Jaskolka Carleton University Dr. Jason Jaskolka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Cyber Security Evaluation and Assurance (CyberSEA) Research Lab at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada. What would happen if you could no longer use the technological systems
Vera Stanton I’m an ex-pat Kiwi currently living in Hong Kong where I have been for more than a decade. I’m writing about what I see as the complete politicisation of the Covid response, to the point where it threatens the existence of Hong Kong as I have
Business of the Day is a new segment on The BFD where we promote businesses who have the strength of character to stand up for the basic human rights of their fellow human beings. The Skin Spot Clinic in Tauranga is non-discriminatory and welcoming. Their ad says: “Everyone who is
Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits
Dear Editor Are we really supposed to believe that Grant Robertson was not previously aware and had to be told, upon condescendingly visiting the exiled Auckland kingdom, that hair salons could not open but beauty therapists could; that these locked down hairdressers were suffering, being forced out of business or
Family First A nationwide poll has found significant support from New Zealanders for regular testing to be allowed as an option so that kiwis can keep their jobs. In the poll of 1,000 New Zealanders surveyed by Curia Market Research, respondents were first asked: Do you support or oppose
Information Opinion David ‘Tainted‘ Fisher, hack journalist for ‘A Newspaper‘ and all around (allegedly) duplicitous scumbag, has been paid (presumably) to write a piece for his employer where he waxes lyrical about the probability (he wishes?) that there will be a domestic terrorist attack in our fair land some time
Yesterday’s announcement by the Prime Minister of a decision and an announcement that may happen in December is just the latest sign the Government has utterly lost the plot, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “This is an announcement that in two weeks’ time there will be an
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David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s announcement on boosters showed how all announcements should be done. Cabinet made the decision; the Prime Minister immediately shared the information with the public. People now know what the Government will do, and when. We now know that if you had your vaccine
A new Ministry for Disabled People was announced on 29 October 2021. “Minister for Disability Issues Carmel Sepuloni and Health Minister Andrew Little announced the plans this afternoon, saying the government was delivering on its promise to reform disability systems. The planned reforms include: * Establishing a Ministry for Disabled People
Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. On Thursday it was announced that the recently departed Green Party Chief of Staff in Parliament, Tory Whanau,
The Government‘s decision to require tourism businesses to pay DOC fees will be the final straw for many tourism operators near closure and should be reversed, says National’s Associate Tourism spokesperson Joseph Mooney. “For the past two years, concession fees have been waived for tourism businesses operating on
Renaud Foucart Lancaster University Renaud Foucart is an applied microeconomic theorist. This means he trys to understand real world puzzles by modelling strategic interactions. This has led him to work on topics as different as smoking bans, Islamic finance, environmental agreements, Google is being fined €2.4 billion (£2.1
