Not long ago, a family-run hospitality business in my town posted a plea for help on the local Facebook page: please come and buy our stuff! In anticipation of some big annual events in Tasmania, months ago they had ordered piles of perishable stock. Now it was all sitting
Nick Stewart CEO of Stewart Group The Adviser Talk · Canny View: Budget 2020, higher taxes on the way The government has unveiled Budget 2020 under the most challenging economic conditions since 1984 and with expectations from the whole nation that it will cushion the economy from the fallout from COVID-
“Green steel” might sound like Derek Zoolander’s contribution to celebrity climate activism, but according to a public policy think-tank, it’s totes the future of the Australian economy. But, like most green fantasies, it seems to be long on wishful thinking and short on hard detail. A new
Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com The economic crash was already baked in before the virus arrived. It was already going to be bad. The shortest ever recent recession, in 1980, lasted for six months. And this one — the popping of the “everything bubble” was already going to be big. “Coronavirus
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Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes is a geologist, financial analyst and weather watcher with long experience in Australian rural and mining industries. The Lockdown Depression is rushing towards us. Many in politics, media and industry are digging the hole deeper, some through panic and ignorance, others cynically pushing anti-
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Yesterday’s MSM headlines were enough to bring tears to your eyes. They revealed terrible ongoing job losses while one headline trumpeted that New Zealanders are really happy with the PM that caused them. Every day more and more jobs are going to disappear. How long will people keep thinking
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Simplicity of idea is always desirable. But the idea still has to make sense. A professor reported on RNZ says: “I think the pandemic spells the end of the neoliberal era and I think the idea that government should be small and inactive and everything
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Over the last two months those of us following the news on the array of international television channels, must have viewed literally hundreds of proclaimed health experts, mainly American. Nearly every one of them has been interviewed against the background of bookshelves. Books are my
I have fared pretty well during Levels 3 and 4, leaving home infrequently, only to make trips to the supermarket where, after one or two teething issues with keeping my distance from other shoppers, I encountered no real problems. Being in lockdown in a town with no reported cases, the
Grant Duncan Massey University New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won global admiration for her personal style. But how will Kiwis judge her government’s performance at the ballot-box in September? A major factor in that decision will be how well today’s budget is received – and how
