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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Promise: “An economy that is growing and working for all of us”. A huge disconnect exists between this objective and their policies which directly hamper economic growth. Non-delivery: GDP Growth Economic growth is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP,
Latest on the cash ban, which was presented in Parliament today, with Robbie Barwick from the CEC.
Why are big money managers and investors like Ray Dalio and Mark Mobius telling people to buy precious metals? Do they see the economy hitting the wall? Analyst and entrepreneur Karl Denninger says, “Everyone sees the wall. Everyone sees the problem. The monthly Treasury statements are public. Go pull it
The government has overhauled its temporary migrant worker visa scheme. If you cast your mind back 2 years, Labour and NZ First both campaigned on significantly reducing immigration, from around 70,000 migrants a year down to about 30,000. NZ First actually went further and wanted to reduce immigration
