New Zealand’s Child Poverty Conundrum
The numbers cannot be encouraged to keep growing. That will only ramp-up inter-generational dependency and further deplete potential productivity.
Economy
Mpox: the Numbers and the Reality
That is what the new international emergency looks like in actual data. Whichever way you count it, it is not going to become much more significant. It is not a global emergency, by any sane, rational, public health-based definition.
The Labour Party Leader’s Sad Plan for NZ Is a Copy of the UK Prime Minister’s.
Except with a difference: Hipkins wants NZ to fail. For talking NZ down and wanting us to fail, Hipkins should get out of politics.
The MSM Think We’re Stupid
The projected cost blowout of $775m to $3.2b for two interisland ferries.
Chicken Just Too Expensive for the Lickin’
KFC and Maccas are becoming luxuries for cash-strapped families.
John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Great Crash, 1929
If a leading intellectual can’t explain why and how the policies he espouses address the challenges a country has faced in the past, it’s very difficult to take seriously what he and his later adherents may have to say.
This Ministry Will Be ACT’s Greatest Legacy
Radio NZ is talking malicious garbage trying to paint it as a money-wasting hypocrisy.
Tough Talk on Council Overspending Due
The National-led Government is taking positive steps to reduce the cost of governance on New Zealanders at multiple levels.
PM Luxon Nails NZ Councils
People with competency need to stand. This is my request to those that read this: the nation needs you to front up. If you are unable to stand as a candidate, get behind competent people who will. They need support.
This Is a Dual Crisis
If both trends continue, New Zealand could face a shrinking, ageing population, with profound and catastrophic implications for the nation’s social and economic health.
Golden Question: Is Democracy Dying?
What the people want is not what (or who) the people are getting.
‘Doing Nothing Is Not an Option’ – Top Economists on Housing
Whereas global cities – including Seattle, New York and Singapore – were attempting to aggressively lift the supply of low-income housing, Australia’s supply of affordable and public housing had been shrinking for decades.
Is NIWA Under Political Pressure?
Disputing the existence of previous storms is pretty stupid... or is it?
Maui Tenants Forced From Their Homes for Wildfire Survivors
Property owners are profiting.
Laugh Out Loud Hypocrisy
Those responsible for the recklessness, many of whom are now opposition spokespeople, haven’t a leg to stand on when it comes to forming a logical and credible objection.