With a cheerleading media failing to ever hold our hopeless government to account it pays to read international media to get some critical reporting on serious matters. Our media are too focused on what Clarke Gayford tweeted or who Jacinda Ardern has hugged lately. Meanwhile, our government is splurging out
The Government’s income tax changes will be legislated before Christmas and will come into force on April 1 next year. Labour campaigned on creating a new tax bracket for income earned over $180,000. The party proposed to tax income earned above $180,000 at 39 per cent. Read
The Xi regime is bringing the iron fist down in no uncertain terms, both at home and abroad. At home, the Chinese Communist Party summarily squashed what would have been the world’s biggest stockmarket debut when it abruptly suspended the IPO of Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. Abroad,
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Again the effects of welfarism are manifested in waste and frustration. New Zealand is heading into peak harvest season and there aren’t enough workers to get fruit off trees or vegetables from the ground. “This could be my last crop,” says Heap, who grows
Lest anyone doubt exactly what they are dealing with if they choose to hold their hand out for China’s gold, the Chinese regime periodically shows the world in no uncertain terms just who they are. Anyone who deludes themselves that China is “opening up” ought to have been rudely
Tasmania is famous for producing some of the world’s best seafood, wine and lamb. Not that Tasmanians ever get much chance of enjoying the bounty of their own state: even if we’re prepared to pay through the nose for certain local produce, we end up getting the leavings
At the end of April, the Reserve Bank removed mortgage loan-to-value ratios (LVRs) for 12 months. This decision was made to ensure LVR restrictions didn’t have an undue impact on borrowers or lenders as part of the mortgage deferral scheme implemented in response to the COVID-19
31st October 2020 I am sitting here waiting for the announcement of a new lockdown in England. It was scheduled for 4pm, then deferred to 5pm, then sometime after 5pm and then 6.30pm. As the contents of the speech due to be made by the Prime Minister have been
In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, Remainers were hysterically predicting every calamity from World War III to instant economic calamity if Britain voted to leave the EU. Suffice to say, the world failed to self-immolate in a cloud of radioactive fire and any economic calamity can be
covidplanb.co.nz A group of New Zealand health practitioners have joined a growing international movement that says COVID-19 is not a sufficient threat to warrant the elimination strategy and lockdowns. The founding signatories felt obliged by their professional ethics to express support by signing a statement of principles
Ananish Chaudhuri With the government borrowing heavily to fund its pandemic response and recovery, it has been suggested it could simply cancel its debt by printing more money. That sounds like an attractive idea, but it is one that would have seriously adverse consequences. Derived from “modern monetary theory” (MMT)
Launceston has long grown accustomed to empty shopfronts in its CBD, a trend only exacerbated by the Wuhan plague. So, when a new shopfront opens it naturally piques local interest. The more so when the shop sports entirely Chinese-language livery, is stocked with row upon row of baby formula
