NZ Politics
Sallies Are Now Part of the Problem
While it’s true that they provide much-needed emergency services, they also fight against reforms that try to place at least some responsibility back on the shoulders of people receiving benefits.
Grant Has a Point on Luxon’s Hollow Words, but His Peters’ Obsession Shows His ACT Bias
All up, not a bad effort from Damien Grant. He nails National’s dismal record on spending and ends with a call to arms: grab a chainsaw and go after the deep state bureaucrats, Javier Milei style.
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30 Losers Pretend To Be Auckland While Defending Chlöe Swarbrick’s Hobos
We do not need government move-on orders to clean up Auckland from Chloë Swarbrick’s hobos. We just need to re-home them with anyone who says move-on orders are terrible.
Women’s Rights Get Rebranded
I came across a document ‘WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLES’. This article unpacks its intention, influence and New Zealand law firms who have signed on to the related ‘Gender Equality Charter’.
Sell Air NZ Now: Taxpayers Lose $59 Million While Virtue Signalling Soars
I am with David Seymour on this one. Sell Air NZ. And while we are at it, sell the other distressed state assets such as Radio NZ and TVNZ. The taxpayer has carried these losers long enough.
A Way Forward
Don is reluctant to “kill what we have built up over the last few years” and has suggested that we continue the blog under the title of Brash & Mitchell.
The Sacred Grove, a Fallen Tree and a $560,000 Question
Auckland ratepayers are now more than half a million dollars in, residents are six figures out of pocket, and there is still no clear public explanation of how success will be measured – or when spending will finally stop.
Luxon Bins His Own Reports: The Manager Who Stopped Managing
Our country does not need another middle manager with a PowerPoint. It needs a leader who can fight the real battles. Luxon just proved he is not that man.