When Staff Massage the Data
NZTA and councils programmed fake data used in public consultation to justify lowered speed limits.
NZ Politics
News Briefing: 13 March 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards INFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT, FOREIGN INVESTMENT, WEALTH VISA Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Guardrails needed to protect NZ from foreign investors – ex-SolarZero employee Giles Dexter (RNZ): What's on the table at the government's infrastructure summit Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Government sets out its wares for
Labour Need to Lift Their Own Game If They Want Luxon Rolled
Labour could do more to destabilise the National Party, but will they?
Stand for Truth or Face the Reckoning
Time’s ticking – stand up and be counted, or brace yourself for the reckoning you deserve. It is time to reclaim your profession, your integrity, and your country. Your patients are waiting.
Restaurant Realities
Don’t read too much into the daily media reporting of restaurant closures. It would be happening anyway.
Council Continues to NZ Women
The Midwifery Council continues to ignore biology and insult mothers.
A Meeting to End a War Started One
At least of words. I will try and give some balance to this article. Not the easiest of tasks but here goes.
You Cannot Stop People From Asking Questions
What Dame Anne is engaging in is what the philosopher Harry Frankfurt calls ‘bullshit’. This is where intellectuals and policy makers, who have no good answers to valid questions from regular people, essentially resort to using jargon to sidestep the matter.
Why Does Porirua Honour a Māori Tyrant?
Porirua’s leaders must ask themselves if their community really wants to immortalise a man who traded in human lives?
Mark Carney Becomes PM of Canada
My former economics MPhil and DPhil classmate for many hard years.
News Briefing: 12 March 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards INFRASTRUCTURE, FOREIGN INVESTMENT, FAST-TRACK Laura Walters (Newsroom): Staying up late for Luxon’s sell-a-thon, hawking NZ to the world John Tookey (The Conversation): Hey big spenders: what foreign investors will really want from the infrastructure summit Brent Edwards (NBR): Fast-track makes NZ more attractive
The Importance of Knowing Your Enemy
Those who fail to learn the lessons that history provides us are doomed to repeat the failures of the past in the here and now.
This Racism Has Got Out of Hand
It is a mix of racism and wokeness that is at the heart of the problem.