A flurry of revelations in the past month show the oil and gas ban is unfolding exactly as officials predicted, National’s Energy and Resources spokesperson Barbara Kuriger says. Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods told Parliament today that since the oil and gas ban in 2018, 88,000 square
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I don’t know about you, but I want my Kiwisaver to make as much money as possible and I don’t really care about ethics in investing: Minister of Finance Grant Robertson has written to chairs of the Super Fund and ACC, asking them to adopt ethical investment policies
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a Eugene S. Thorpe Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. Imagine you’re an employee at Walmart. Maybe you’re a single mom working to pay the bills or
The Government’s lack of urgency with a second harbour crossing for Auckland shows how misguided it is when it comes to the needs of the city and New Zealand’s economy. “Auckland desperately needs investment in a second harbour crossing but the Government has its priorities all wrong,” National’
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz The most comprehensive analysis yet, comparing Google movement data to Covid-19 deaths has found that lockdown (“stay at home”) had no role in preventing Covid-19 fatalities. The scientific report published in Nature says: “In ~98% of the comparisons using 87 different regions of the
Exhibit One, April 2018: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has banned future offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand. “We’re protecting industry and protecting future generations from climate change,” said Ardern. “This is a responsible step, which provides certainty for businesses and communities that rely on fossil fuels.” Exhibit
National is calling on the Government to open the trans-Tasman bubble with Australia to give our desperate tourism sector a much-needed boost and reunite Kiwis with family and friends across the ditch. “New Zealand and Australia have both done well to reduce the threat of Covid-19,” Leader of the Opposition
Macca Are the media in this country utterly stupid or knowingly lying by omission? I believe it is a combination of both. They have given up the right to be called journalists. That title long ago was given to people who were nonpartisan and gave the facts that were available
You may remember a few weeks back that Grant Robertson chided Peter Williams on Magic Talk when Williams asked him about The Great Reset that is supposedly happening all around the globe. Robertson’s reaction was surprisingly vehement and he accused Williams of expounding conspiracy theories and other nonsense. Well,
Despite the GNLM reports, all is not well in Myanmar as the economy continues to tank. In a continuation of its policy of pretending that life in Myanmar is carrying on as normal, the Global New Light of Myanmar carried this as its main story today. I.S.P.E
5th March 2021 War Footing: Why Business May Never Return to ‘Normal’ The Frontier magazine has published another perceptive article on the state of Myanmar, looking at the economic consequences of the coup. I make no excuses for the length of today’s article, based on the Frontier piece, but
No matter how many tanties and hissy-fits Grant Robertson throws, it’s an objective fact that the Great Reset is not a “conspiracy theory”. A “conspiracy theory” is defined as a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators and a theory asserting that a secret of great importance is being kept
