dailytelegraph.co.nz THE LATEST DATA ON FARM SALES HAS SHOWN A FURTHER SLUMP IN VOLUMES AND A DROP IN PRICES, ACCORDING TO THE REAL ESTATE INSTITUTE OF NEW ZEALAND’S RURAL MARKET STATISTICS. There were only 171 farm sales in the three months ended September 2022, down 17.8
Brian Tamaki President of Freedoms New Zealand umbrella party Information Opinion Now more than ever, this country needs to be united, not divided. Since the great depression, the state of this nation has never been so critical. Yet much of what politicians are enacting is dividing our nation. While this
Dear Editor The ruinous fabrications of the Ardern government show our political structure to be woefully lacking in counter-means for control and constraint. Debt has skyrocketed beyond rational, serviceable levels – we’re all but maxed-out. Race relations, societal deterioration and crime are off the charts. Health, in total
You can’t say Labor aren’t looking after their base, with their first budget. The workers, you ask? Oh, you sweet, summer child — Labor’s base hasn’t been the workers for decades. The last Labor pollie to ever actually work in a job that wasn’t publicly funded
Louise M Diack kiwi-chronicle.ghost.io Information Opinion Not content with having stuffed energy security, the misanthropic, globalist political class seems mysteriously unified and intent on meddling with food security too. New Zealand’s PM has bewildering plans to force sheep and cattle farmers to cut production. New Zealand’
Tell me this isn’t a Labor government: inflation spiking, taxes surging and spending blowouts on welfare. Tax and spend, all the way. Jim Chalmers will more than halve the deficit this financial year to $36.9bn but faces a deteriorating budget bottom line in the years leading to the
Alan Shipman The Open University Alan Shipman is a senior lecturer in economics at the Open University. He returned to research and teaching on the economy after it crashed in 2008, having (mis)spent years as an emerging-markets analyst, consultant and business journalist. As the incoming UK prime minister,
Louis T March mercatornet.com Louis T March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. An often-overlooked aspect
Information Opinion About twenty years ago a silly book was published called What’s The Matter With Kansas? Boiled down, it claimed that Kansas was stagnating economically and expressed astonishment the people living there didn’t want handouts from the government. The fact that Kansans had ‘self-help’ values and
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
