Christchurch Airport Sees a Lift in Arrivals
International visitors contributed $861 million to the South Island economy, supporting tourism operators, hospitality businesses, and the wider regional economy.
Economy
Those Who Spend the Money Should Raise the Money
What is missing is transparent accountability. A system where states raise what they spend would encourage competition in efficiency, innovation, and value.
Can This Be True?
The most expensive electricity on Earth is in countries with ‘cheapest’ sources of electricity.
Quick Hit – The Roads They Promised Are Already Being Scaled Back
The roads were never going to build themselves. Turns out, they’re not going to be built at all – at least, not the way they were promised.
Quick Hit: The Media’s Fuel Crisis – Worse Than the Actual One
Two coordinated hit pieces on the coalition’s fuel response landed on the same day – one from the Spinoff, one from the Post. Both missed the point entirely.
Gen-Z YouTuber Hammers Home Financial Responsibility
Foul-mouthed and fiery, Caleb Hammer is bringing sound financial advice and personal accountability to the YouTube-TikTok generation.
We’d Be Better Run by a Drunken Sailor
At least he’d only piss his own money against the wall.
It Is More Than Dismal Now
My personal perspective on all this is much darker than Damien Grant’s. We have consistently failed to meet the challenges of the future over the last 25 years and each decade (or even half-decade) has felt more constrained, stressful and gloomy than the one before it.
Te Kāika and the Broken Model
All three of these state-funded charities – Te Kāika, Waipareira Trust, Manukau Urban Māori Authority – have featured what looks like nepotistic governance structures.
Is This a $110 Billion Illusion?
After nearly 20 years and billions in subsidies, no one has shown that KiwiSaver has made New Zealanders wealthier. Still, the instinct across the political spectrum is to make the scheme bigger.
Will Petrol Sink Labor, Again?
Instead of closing down refineries and chasing green ideological pipe dreams, the government should (hey here’s a shocker) get out of the way.
A Win for the Government?
When prices rise, families feel it immediately. When tax revenue rises, the government feels it immediately too – but silently.
From Woke To Broke: Hochul Begs the Rich To Return
What ever happened to “jump on a bus and head to Florida where you belong”?
New Zealand’s Diesel Supply
How a Middle East conflict has exposed a structural vulnerability at the heart of the New Zealand economy.