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
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
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
Simon Angelo wealthmorning.com Simon is the Chief Executive Officer and Publisher at Wealth Morning. He has been investing in the markets since he was 17. He recently spent a couple of years working in the hedge-fund industry in Europe. Before this, he owned an award-winning professional-services
This government, like any other democratically elected government, was elected by the people to govern for the people. If the polls are to be believed, Ardern and her Government are performing this fundamental task pretty well. The polls however, do not paint a true picture of people’s universal opinion
The Government needs to urgently recognise soaring inflation as the biggest medium-term threat to the New Zealand economy and halt its wasteful spending, says National’s Finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse. Today, StatsNZ has confirmed what Kiwis all across New Zealand already know – the cost of living is rising fast
James Shaw needs to urgently push pause on his plans to reach into every aspect of Kiwi lives in the name of climate change, says National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith. James Shaw has released a discussion document on a so-called emissions reduction plan that reaches into every
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
David Seymour ACT Leader Record taxation of $97 billion shows Grant Robertson taxing New Zealanders harder than even we could have imagined. The previous record was also set by Robertson, taxing $86 billion in 2019. However, Robertson has now smashed his own record by 13 per cent in just two
“Sorry, kids – Santa’s in MIQ” – parents better start rehearsing their excuses for what is shaping up to be a bit of a Christmas fizzer. Like much of the rest of the world, too many New Zealanders, most notably their government, have laboured under the delusion that they could “freeze”
