Collins Silent on NZ Satellite Mission
Experts say the public was misled about ongoing technical issues, including problematic thrusters and repeated system failures.
Economy
The PM’s New Line
This is an adjustment – a new explanation – because the economy is not improving anywhere near as fast as he had hoped or it needs to. At half-time National is struggling to make a real difference to voter’s lives. That’s what the polls are saying.
Retired Couple Face 70% Health Insurance Increase
Rebecca Styles, investigative team leader at Consumer NZ, told Chris Lynch Media the increases are part of a wider trend across the industry.
Update on the IHR Amendments
More money will be channeled to ever-growing bureaucracies whose sole function, whose only reason for existence, is to identify theoretical threats that can be used to close economies, remove the livelihoods of others, and extract more of their remaining wealth.
How Councils Made You a Guarantor Without You Knowing
Your council is quietly guaranteeing other councils’ debts. Discover how local governments are gambling with your rates – and your sovereignty.
New York May Get Government-Owned Grocery Stores
History shows that’s never a good idea.
Apartheid Funded by the Taxpayer, Run Like a Family Business
Whānau Ora should be dismantled. This isn’t empowerment: it is exploitation of the system by those lucky enough to sit at the top. The people it was meant to help never see the benefit. The insiders make sure of that.
Who Relies Most on Welfare?
Chinese people had the lowest dependency rate at 2.4 per cent. The highest rate is for Māori at 23 per cent.
The Human Cost of Starmer’s Welfare U-Turn
Some might blame Jane and her mum for being scroungers. As it happens I don’t: they seem to me to be making a perfectly logical, if short-term, financial decision. £72 a week is available so why not take it?
Australia’s Schrödinger’s Super Tax
Where you’re being taxed on money you haven’t even made yet.
This Poverty Is a Modern Man-Made Monster
Paying able-bodied people to stay at home and not earn their living is probably the biggest social miscalculation of the last 60 years. Unwinding it won’t be easy.
Too Much Optimism Is Keeping America Down
Arnold’s way of thinking always gets applause – because he’s telling people what they want to believe about America. But it’s time to get real.
The Collapse Is Now Certain
He predicts a future like the one that crippled Greece, triggered by the bond markets turning on Britain as the “weakest wildebeest in the herd”, and the remorseless march to electoral oblivion Labour seems hell-bent on.
Our Donations to Zelensky’s Ukraine
Charity begins at home, Ukraine aid or political theatre.