Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING Thomas Coughlan (Herald): More tax, fewer services - Treasury’s forecasts a grim warning to MPs and New Zealanders (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Post): A bigger recession for each Kiwi than the GFC (paywalled) Jo Moir (RNZ): HYEFU revealed: Nicola Willis
If we are not careful we, like Britain, will be paying a heavy price for our politicians’ vain posturing.
There are solutions. The way councils manage projects seems to be designed to make everything cost at least twice as much.
The government has been fiddling around the edges; the opposition are living in cloud cuckoo land as they moan about cuts.
We are one people, one vote, one law and one flag.
The tabling of the Gene Technology Bill at this time speaks volumes about an industry determined to ignore risks and override precautionary voices.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING Giles Dexter (RNZ): HYEFU preview: Pre-emptive blame game ahead of opening of the books Brian Easton (Pundit): Foreshadowing HYEFU 2024 Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government reveals whether Nicola Willis will ‘shift goalposts’ on surplus target or ditch multi-year capital allowance, details
The NZ Govt is finally talking about puberty blockers and asking the people to weigh in – by Jan 20 2025.
My talk with ChatGPT matches my first thoughts and worries about Bovaer when I first read the good reports about this and how it will save the planet from methane.
What NZ is currently experiencing isn’t just a reaction to the Treaty Principles Bill.
The cost will continue to be passed to future generations and then future generations beyond that etc, until it blows up in everyone’s faces.
Local Chinese New Zealanders have just presented a petition to parliament asking for an inquiry into foreign interference. Their concerns are not a figment of imagination.
Such comments reveal just how frayed the bonds of constitutional loyalty have become and how little stock the opposition parties now put in the democratic norms of representative government.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT, THE YEAR IN POLITICS Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Democracy Briefing: First Among Equals? New Zealand First’s year in government Janet Wilson (The Post): In the Age of Meh, voters are sending a message loud and clear (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): Politician
