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
National has failed to act meaningfully on NZ’s spiralling debt.
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.
The policy formulation process has been extraordinarily poor. The case is not made scientifically, economically or environmentally in any underpinning policy documentation.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
How my personal consumption might offer some ideas for the future.
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.
Tut, tut. Not good enough, Chris. Hell, even Hipkins is doing better than you.
