Housing Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern won’t stage Reserve Bank intervention as Government loses grip on house prices Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): One-in-four property speculators dodging housing tax Jane Patterson (RNZ): Government under pressure across political spectrum over inflated house prices Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Reserve Bank finds itself at the
Housing Alice Wilkins (Newshub): Tax reform needed to solve New Zealand’s housing crisis – economist Henry Cooke (Stuff): Housing crisis: Green Party urge prime minister to reverse ruling out taxing property wealth Henry Cooke (Stuff): Housing crisis: Judith Collins reluctant to push for change to Reserve Bank’s mandate RNZ:
Flushed with the success at the election the Government is now showing its true authoritarian credentials. Chris Hipkins is no longer using veiled threats, he’s actually very overt about it. Apparently, the Government is considering making using the Covid App compulsory. Speaking to The AM Show on Tuesday morning,
Housing Liam Dann (Herald): House price surge just getting started – Westpac Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Social pressure from renters may force Govt to implement wealth tax: Westpac Michael Cullen (Stuff): Time for a monetary policy rethink Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Reserve Bank fuelling housing boom with printed money says former Finance Minister
Chris Hipkins Masks will need to be worn on all public transport in Auckland and in and out of Auckland and on domestic flights throughout the country from this Thursday, Minister for COVID-19 Response Chris Hipkins said today. “I will be issuing an Order under the COVID-19 Response Act requiring
She who must be obeyed, ‘The Covid Queen’, has spoken again from the podium of truth and given commuters another reason to not use public transport. A Government order compelling people to wear face masks on public transport in Auckland and planes nationwide will come into effect on Thursday. Prime
Simon Black Bahia Beach, Puerto Rico sovereignman.com In early 1948, a group of US Air Force officers were working on a secret research project in the California desert codenamed MX981. The purpose of MX981 was to test how extreme gravitational forces from fast-moving fighter jets would impact the human
covidplanb.co.nz Covid Plan B has welcomed the Government’s decision not to over-react to cases of people testing positive to COVID-19 by starting another lockdown. Simon Thornley, spokesperson for the group, says the Government appears to finally be adapting its strategy to new information about ineffectiveness of lockdowns
Marcus Roberts mercatornet.com Marcus Roberts was two years out of law school when he decided that practising law was no longer for him. He therefore went back to university and did his LLM while tutoring. He now teaches contract and torts law. Aside from law, his passions include reading
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com There’s not much of New Zealand in NZ Initiative. Its staff are mostly imported, and its Executive Director, Oliver Hartwich, is German; his English remains, in spite of my best efforts, unintelligibly, robotically Germanic in the manner of a John Cleese spoof. Ordinarily, as a
Housing Henry Cooke (Stuff): If it wants to fix housing, Labour needs to get out of its defensive crouch Bernard Hickey (Stuff): Millennials suffer as old generals fight the previous war Tracy Watkins (Stuff): What happens when the only way for housing seems to be up? Steven Joyce (Herald): It’
ACT Party “The latest Covid community case is more evidence that the Government runs on smiles and slogans,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “How is it that a financially struggling media which operates on the smell of an oily rag was able to alert people at The Vincent Residences there
We are told the latest coronavirus case is linked to the Defence Force cluster. That’s as may be but the real cluster in all of this appears to be the Government itself. From the ‘hard and early’ joke, its handling of the virus has been hopeless. This latest case
The Moscow Circus is in Auckland this month but it has stiff competition in the clown department. There were lies, live and exclusive on the AM show yesterday morning with “anxious Aucklanders (are) waiting with bated breath for the results of genome sequencing from the latest case of COVID-19”. I’
