Are Australia’s big employers the laziest and greediest in the world? I mean, at least farmers exploiting migrant labour in the US bother to drive their trucks down to the border to pick up a load of wetback wage-slaves. Australia’s lot expect the cheap foreign labour to come
December 19th, 2021. A couple of letters ago I suggested that we should get popcorn in, sit back and watch the Boris show. Well, I have ordered popcorn by the shedload to see me through the holiday and into the new year whilst we watch the Johnson administration collapse. Today,
Grant Robertson has announced that the 2022 budget, due in May next year, will include an additional $6 billion in new operational spending, mainly aimed at funding the government’s proposed health sector changes and also at tackling climate change. More money that we don’t have. More quantitative easing.
And here we go again. Lockdowns are again being threatened by the Deputy Prime Minister. One case of Omicron crosses their leaky border and all bets were off for any thoughts of so-called freedom. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson, in an interview recorded on Friday and aired on Saturday morning,
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. Celebrities like Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and Elon Musk have fled California for greener pastures in recent years, making headlines. But it’s not just individuals: According to a Stanford study,
Walking through the Queensgate Mall in Lower Hutt on Saturday, I realised that I was the only person without a mask. I don’t mean in the shops, I mean walking the aisles. Yes, you read that right. I did not see another person without a mask walking the halls
There is a predilection amongst our so-called leaders to ostracise and scapegoat the un-vaccinated for perceived problems in their town or city. The media are feeding the frenzy and have become Jacinda’s handmaidens in leading the way for demonising and polarising society against people. Especially when they run stories
Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Information Satire The New Zealand Dollar fell overnight again for the fourth straight day and the NZX is bracing this morning to take another beating as the fallout from an errant Tweet continues. Just how fragile the NZ economy is was underlined when a prominent
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 I suspect that most New Zealanders don’t give a lot of thought to the size of the government debt. But every now and then the media reports
Simon Chapple Michael Fletcher Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Simon Chapple was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He became Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies in mid-2017. Previously he has worked domestically in a research and policy advisory capacity for a range of government agencies,
Daniel Lacalle mises.org Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020), Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017), The Energy World Is Flat (2015), and Life in the Financial Markets (2014). He is a professor of global economy at
Plus ça Change, as they say in France: “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. It’s coming up on three years since Victorians made Jeff Kennett premier, and, as it was back then, the state is an economic basket-case, thanks to a Labor government. Of course,
As we all know, there’s nothing a corporate green loves so much as the green of taxpayer’s money. They’re not so keen, however, on paying their “fair share” of tax themselves. The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) will release its final decision this Thursday on new rules
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