Quick Hit: The Letter That Bought $4.9m
OT treated a thank-you letter from Willie Jackson's wife as the business case for $4.9m. Not procurement. A family note with a price tag.
NZ Politics
What Will Hipkins Have to Give Away?
KiwiPower, KiwiMart, Wealth Taxes, and Te Tiriti: What survives negotiations?
He Wouldn’t Say The Number. Now We Know Why.
Hipkins sold an above-30 comfort blanket and would not read the figure. Anacta just printed Labour 31, National 30. Show me the numbers. He had them.
Why RNZ Can’t Be Trusted
Most people will take this at face value but I have just explained why that is a mistake. And if the reporter understood the difference, it’s an outright misrepresentation.
A Win for Free Speech
Helen Houghton challenges ‘extremist’ label and secures a public apology from HarperCollins and Byron Clark.
New Zealand’s Gateway to Indentured Labour
How a visa scheme designed to fill labour shortages led to exploitation – and a pathway to permanent migration.
Hung. Both Under Thirty. Still Demanding Your Party Vote.
Both majors under 30. Hung Parliament. National still wants your party vote while it buys zero list MPs.
How Jones and the New Zealand Party Changed Politics In 1984
‘We’ll slaughter the bastards’
Where Should the Ambulance Be Placed?
And why the taxpayer is left at the bottom of the cliff.
Tax – A Burden We Don’t Need
We have to keep the tax gatherers well away from the seat of power. The coalition may not have given us all we voted for but they are certainly preferable to those occupying the opposition benches. This is why tactical voting has come to the fore and why it is so important.
Witch Hunt Nears Its Grisly End
A pack of witch hunters pops Janet Dickson’s career. Who are the real witches?