The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
When you connect the dots between the Tamihere, Davidson, and Maipi families, a deeply troubling picture of modern Māori politics emerges.
NZ Politics
They Are a Sorry Lot
The country is sorely in need of a leader who will grab these problems by the scruff of the neck and sort them without fear or favour. That person needs to come forward but he or she probably won’t, because no sane person would want to waste time in the bear pit of parliament.
Quick Hit: Two Hundred And One Billion
Taxpayers’ Union Bribe-O-Meter puts Opportunity at $201 billion over four years. Another $407m Industry Energy Resilience this week. Hope has an invoice. $201 billion. Still other people’s money.
The Scapegoats Are Now at the Checkout
What the political rush to punish supermarkets reveals about modern campaigning.
Three Years Of Landlord Tax Cuts. Now He Keeps Them.
Hipkins spent three years calling interest deductibility a tax cut for landlords. Now he keeps it and sells a capital gains tax instead. The slogan was the policy. The policy just left the room.
The Parents Voice
A well-connected new education interest group is ready to make an impact.
MAPAS Defenders Fudge Facts on Competence
A response to an OIA request for a breakdown of applicants for Auckland Med School’s 2024’s intake showed the median Grade Point Average GPA for successful graduate students under general admission was 8.5; for MAPAS applicants it was 6.25.
Quick Hit: Make NZ Healthy
NZ First Make NZ Healthy: prevention over medicines that manage decline and sell another Pharmac cheque. Nutrition curriculum, metabolic health, written consent, GP autonomy, Medsafe/Pharmac barriers, Vit D and IV C trials are selling a different destination.
National Is the ‘Party of Business’
National doesn’t need complex market interventions for a political resurgence – it needs clear, foundational principles. The party could trigger an immediate surge in the polls by drawing a permanent line under race-based funding.
Most Popular. Melting Numbers.
Hipkins still says he is the most popular politician in the country. Ani has the clip. Cam already cut the line. Stats NZ has GDP up 0.2 per cent and construction up 2.7 percent. Popularity is a feeling. The ledger is a receipt.
So, Mamdani Marts for NZ?
Change the Commerce Commission’s 6.2 per cent weighted cost of capital and the alleged excess profit claim disappears, taking with it the Green Party rationale for state intervention and their plan for ‘Mamdani Marts’ across New Zealand.
