Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. The cost of living crisis is affecting every New Zealander, whether it be at the supermarket, increases in rent or paying off your mortgage – high prices are biting and making it tougher for Kiwis to get ahead. This month,
Angus Aardvark With a population of only five million people, why do we need teams of government officials to approve internationally used commodities like: * Building materials, e.g. plasterboard. Cities like Vancouver, Los Angeles etc have similar expectations of building quality and are also sitting on earthquake fault lines. It’
Michael endoftheamericandream.com Michael has a brand new book entitled 7 Year Apocalypse is now available on Amazon.com. In addition to his new book he has written five other books that are available on Amazon.com including Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America, The Beginning Of The End,
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, TV and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
The classic movie Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore has an amusing opening scene: the boy is lying on the floor listening to All The Way From Memphis and the eponymous Alice asks, “Why do we need to listen to Mott The Hoople 24 hours per day. Can you tell
David Seymour ACT Party Leader It’s important that any lessons taken from Liz Truss’s downfall are based on actual data. The risk is New Zealand takes the wrong lesson from lazy analysis, particularly those on the political left who bleat on like the sheep in Animal Farm: tax
Jake Johnson commondreams.org Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. The expert chorus warning that the Federal Reserve is on the verge of plunging the U.S. into a painful recession has grown markedly louder in recent weeks as the central bank plows ahead with large interest
Steve Schifferes City, University of London Andrew Burlinson Catherine Waddams University of East Anglia Brian Scott-Quinn University of Reading Morten O. Ravn UCL Steven McCabe Birmingham City University Professor Schifferes was Marjorie Deane Professor of Financial Journalism and the first Director of the Financial Journalism MA at City from 2009-2017,
So, how’s that proxy war in Ukraine going? The War Machine in Washington would have us believe that it’s totally worth the endless months of death and destruction to bring the Russian bear to its knees. Except that that doesn’t look like happening any time soon. Despite
Rising food prices are continuing to slam Kiwi budgets, National’s Finance spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “Data released by Statistics New Zealand today show that food prices have increased by an average of 8.3 per cent in the last 12 months, which included a 16 per cent increase in
The economic wizards of the Labour Party have launched their farms emissions scam, where it is their stated goal to start taxing cow and sheep farts, burps and wees, as well as to reduce herds by 16-20%. Apparently, this will have minimal impact on prices and lead to the world
The aftershocks of Dan Andrews’ lockdowns continue to rumble through the Victorian economy. Despite a surprise lead showing in the Commonwealth Bank’s State of the States report back in July (the first time Victoria had claimed the top spot since half a year before Covid), the harsh reality is
Tax and spend, break promises… tell me this isn’t a Labor government. During the election campaign, Labor promised everything from tax cuts to cost-of-living reductions — including a specific promise to cut power bills by $275. Every single promise has been broken or is about to be. And spending keeps
A quick scan of this week’s news headlines sees Sleepy Joe Biden (once again) blaming US energy firms for the high price of fuel for the average American. In public comments and private meetings with oil executives, administration officials are warning that the White House could take extraordinary — and
The Reserve Bank’s decision to increase the Official Cash Rate by 50 basis points today means yet more pain for anyone with a mortgage. Not since the dawn of the OCR have New Zealanders experienced such a relentlessly steep climb in interest rates. A 50 basis points rise is
