The government has allocated $1.9 billion towards improving mental health services, and Jacinda has freely acknowledged that she wants to see the current rates of suicide reduce significantly. Well, somebody should have had a quiet word with Damien O’Connor, Minister for Primary Industries, about that particular policy, as
Today’s face of the day is wetter than an otter’s pocket. Clearly Bridges hasn’t listened to a word Scott Morrison said. He has made James ‘wreck the economy’ Shaw a very happy man. National will support climate change Zero Carbon Bill stuff.co.nz/national/politics/117244331/
One of my farming friends used to say, “Never criticise farming while you’ve got a full belly”. While a bit long on self-righteousness (the same farmer also freely acknowledges that many farmers are prone to whinging and demanding handouts), there is a rock-solid foundation of truth: without agriculture, you
China’s economy is facing unprecedented challenges with the lowest reported GDP in 27 years. And it’s having global repercussions. Is this the result of US President Donald Trump’s US-China Trade War? And is this the start of a global recession? Economist and China expert Christopher Balding joins
As if private landlords don’t need another example of why they should get out of providing rental housing this should give them the incentive. Meet the tenant from hell. “A New Lynn landlord says methamphetamine-related damage by a tenant was so bad they had to take out a mortgage
Ryan Bridge spoke with the Chinese ambassador, Wu Xi, on the AM show on Thursday morning 31 October. The link to Part 1 on China’s Sovereignty, USA Interference in Hong Kong & Freedom of Speech in NZ, People to People Exchanges and Hong Kong is here. Ryan: What about
Ryan Bridge spoke with the Chinese ambassador, Wu Xi, on the AM show on Thursday morning 31 October. Part 2 follows with a discussion on Anne-Marie Brady and Huawei. Ryan: China’s embassy this week reached out to the AM show and offered a rare interview with China’s ambassador
An estimated one million people took to Chile streets protesting about who knows what, much like France’s yellow vests and Hong Kong’s student uprisings, ongoing displays of dissatisfaction. Around the world, instigators and leaders of social change are invisible, freely muddying the waters with their anonymity and hidden
Croaking Cassandra The weekend newspapers had several articles highlighting the second anniversary of the New Zealand First choice that led to the creation of the current government. There was, for example, the double-page spread in the Herald devoted to a not-at-all-searching interview with the Prime Minister and the Minister of
If it’s not bad enough that globalist institutions like the UN are openly admitting that climate change alarmism is just leverage for imposing their wealth redistribution agenda, shiftless corporations are getting in on the act. Wherever there’re mounds of government money, you’ll always find rent-seekers with their
For years, skeptical Cassandras have warned that climate alarmism is a Trojan horse for a globalist wealth redistribution agenda. They’ve been sneered at by the great and good of the media-elite as right-wing paranoids. Paranoia is justified, though, when they really are out to get you (or your money,
The Krazy Klimate Kult does a bang-up job of screaming and stamping their little feets, but they’re not much chop at defining exactly what they’d do to tackle the big, scary sky-dragon they’re all so afraid of. Because, of course, that would require both intelligence and hard
It’s difficult not to notice that green protesters almost always protest developments that are nowhere near where they live. Greens in Australia are the most urbanised people in the world, concentrated in wealthy innermost Melbourne and Sydney. The developments they oppose are almost always in rural and remote regions,
The government has announced a surplus of $7.5 billion, approximately $4 billion more than predicted. You might be forgiven for thinking such a large understatement means that Phil Twyford’s comments about ‘kids’ in Treasury were justified after all. However, approximately $3.6 billion of the surplus is due
Two pieces of good news in one morning! Could it be possible that there is some thinking going on inside the CoL? The Taxpayers Union has successfully convinced the Government to put a stop to paying the Clintons via their shonky foundations. Hurrah! Not before time and the Nats should
In an attempt to stimulate a flagging economy, Adrian Orr cut the Official Cash Rate (OCR) by 50 percentage points in August, with a message to everyone to go out, borrow more money and spend up large. It is unclear why Orr thought a 50 point cut would stimulate the
