Comments on the Inquiry Report, Part 3
We must stand fast. Just one little word: No. Use it.
NZ Politics
The Left’s Glass Is Empty
Growth doesn’t come from taxing people out of house and home: it comes from producing more and exporting more.
The Waitangi Tribunal Must Be Reformed
The squeals from Ngarewa-Packer and others are a pathetic attempt to maintain jobs for radical friends in make-believe historical writing.
NZ Politics Daily: 28 January 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR Chris Trotter (Interest): Seeking growth unambitiously, the easy way Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On The Government’s Gaslighting About Growth Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Asset sales: Government starts the mood music for privatisations (paywalled) Giles Dexter (RNZ): Greens accuse Prime Minister of
NZ Sinking In Debt Without a Lifesaver
National has failed to act meaningfully on NZ’s spiralling debt.
It’s Time for Real Transparency
Now, phase two of the RCI begins, and it’s our chance to demand better. With Grant Illingworth KC leading this phase, there’s hope for meaningful change – but only if this inquiry addresses what truly matters.
This Is a Case of Regulatory Failure
The policy formulation process has been extraordinarily poor. The case is not made scientifically, economically or environmentally in any underpinning policy documentation.
Luxon Looks to Create Growth
This was a speech that you would never hear from the left. They are unable to grasp this sort of vision that the country sorely needs.
Absolute Number on Benefits at All-Time High
Today New Zealand is carrying hundreds of thousands of people who are quite capable of carrying themselves. And would if such an easy alternative wasn’t presented.
NZ Politics Daily: 27 January 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Economics 101: The coalition’s wake-up call (paywalled) Russell Palmer (RNZ): Economists challenge details of Luxon's new growth plan Press Editorial (Post): Just a question of attitude (paywalled) ODT Editorial: Going for growth (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Post): Growth,
Whale Songs: For $4M You’d Think It’d Be On Spotify
Because it is Māori-related wasteful spending, newsrooms fall over themselves not to cover it. We get individual journalists contacting us about some of our stories saying they’d love to pick them up but their colleagues and editors would go berserk.
The State of a Nation Left Behind
Bukele, Milei and Trump are successful and capable of far more radical changes: they have a vision of their nations first and foremost as homes for their people.
