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.
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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)
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.
New Data Sheds Light on Cover Up
Denial is a rather concerning medical response to a cancer epidemic. Doctors are sworn to do no harm. They should be reaching for the emergency button.
Another Nail in the Media Coffin
How my personal consumption might offer some ideas for the future.
Bumbling National Outdone by Junior Partner
The quasi-libertarian ACT Party, out of all proportion to their numbers in government, are focused on genuinely reformative proposals that will significantly change the way future governments operate.
Chris, You Are Not Meeting Your KPIs
Tut, tut. Not good enough, Chris. Hell, even Hipkins is doing better than you.
Is a Second Term Likely?
I address the one question constantly put to me over the summer break – can the current government get a second term of office?
NZ Politics Daily: 24 January 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards LUXON STATE OF THE NATION SPEECH, ECONOMY Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Luxon launches year of growth with a war on nojo Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Presiding over a shrinking economy, Christopher Luxon decides it’s a good idea to grow it again (paywalled) Bernard Hickey (The
Seymour’s Stand at Waitangi: Defiance or Duty?
As David Seymour walks into the eye of this storm at Waitangi, we’re not just witnessing a political act of defiance: we’re seeing a man who believes he’s defending a principle against what he sees as the overreach of cultural interpretation.
Commissioner Condemns Brown Town’s Tiered Ticket Pricing
In her first media interview as Race Relations Commissioner, Dr Melissa Derby firmly rejected the concept of racially tiered pricing.
NZ Politics Daily: 23 January 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT Guyon Espiner (Listener): Is Christopher Luxon worried his party might reshuffle him? (paywalled) Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon goes all in on economy as National MPs accept reshuffle fate (paywalled) Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon expected to deliver reality check on what’s
Roy Morgan Poll Give Nats Some Hope
Luxon is going to have to lift his game or the open mutterings will turn in to an insurrection.