Imagine if the Morrison government announced that it was spending a quarter of a billion dollars, to build exclusive service stations for luxury vehicle owners. The media and the left would go insane. Yet, that is, effectively, what the government has just announced. If anything, the left is complaining that
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,
We’ve just uncovered the Reserve Bank’s proposed new bill for circulation in 2026. pic.twitter.com/a8pCFhhi5J — New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union (@TaxpayersUnion) November 9, 2021
Information Opinion Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Jacinda Ardern, lauded all over the world for her kindness, ’emotional intelligence’, ability to have a baby and hold down a job (like, wow), has been found wanting. Many of us knew right from the beginning that she had no substance, but
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As most of you know, I am an accountant, looking after businesses of all shapes and sizes – from building firms to contractors, to hairdressers and beauticians, to commercial electrical companies. Each type of business has its own peculiar conditions, but they all have a number of things in common. When
If there’s one single issue where there is a brutally clear line between the elite and the Australian people, it’s immigration. The elite — politicians, big business, and the chattering classes — are all the way with Big Australia. After all, they get all the benefits of cheap workers and
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Greetings to all of you and my thanks for the work you are doing to stay home and follow the Covid-19 level 3 protocols. I also warmly thank all who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 at this time. You are doing your bit
Right from the outset Labour’s approach to the Covid pandemic has been laboured and divisive. Jacinda Ardern has adopted the philosophy of divide and rule, black against white, the vaccinated against the unvaccinated, area against area. I can only assume the rationale is that it’s better to have
I decided to give in and apply for my COVID passport. Here it is. Pretty neat, don’t you think? I’m not sure it will make my life any easier though, as each day seems to bring more and more proposed restrictions. Now it seems that we may need
KSK So now we have it. Lockdowns will continue until we all behave like good little children and have the almost mandatory vaccine. What is the PM smoking? A 90% vaccination rate for all DHBs? And then the booster shots that will also be required. The vaccine designed for Alpha
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Shock and sadness after death of British MP I am sure we were all shocked and saddened to hear of the death of British Conservative MP Sir David Amess last week. It is a sobering reminder that we live in times where there
Today in things so good you have to be forced to buy them: Electric cars. Remember when governments banned horses and carts and forced everyone to buy those new-fangled Model T Fords, instead? No? So, where are the horses and carts, now? Gone, because the internal combustion engines were so
The days of using Covid as cover for profligate spending must end, National’s Finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. The Government has cynically used funding allocated by Parliament for the Covid-19 Response to fund items that can’t by any measure be considered Covid-related. So far at least $12 billion
