Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz The Government’s Three Waters reform programme is still in crisis, despite the supposed fix coming in yesterday with the release of yet another report with recommendations for improvements. The Government seems determined to push through a deeply unpopular
A BFD Transcript Leighton Smith: Rodney Hide, ex-politician in parliament for 15 years, leader of the ACT party for a number of those. He falls into the group of people with whom I love to have conversation. Rebellion or protest, call it what you want, support or otherwise, it
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
There are many different forms of corruption: graft, bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, influence peddling, and embezzlement. Most of our politicians would not consider themselves to be corrupt, but they definitely fit many of the types of corruption, particularly patronage, influence peddling and lobbying. They do these things to
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Today’s move to amalgamate RNZ and TVNZ is yet another wasteful and pointless move by the Government for the future of the media sector, National’s Broadcasting & Media spokesperson Melissa Lee says. “The Government has spent the last several years wasting millions of dollars on countless reviews, consultations
Dear Editor I have read your articles in the past as they have provided me with a sense of balanced normality; however, I now find myself reading articles that seem to “rubbish” the right-wing parties. OK, both ACT and National leaders may have some failings (so do many people)
What is it about governments that drives them to find ever-more-inventive ways of wasting other peoples’ money? I’m not just talking about the $120 million the US government pays out every year in retirement benefits to dead employees. Nor am I talking about the $800 million budget
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Chris Hipkins and Ashley Bloomfield couldn’t answer basic but critical questions about the COVID response Health Select Committee this morning. How many people are being admitted to hospital with COVID? How will the Government define that the wave has peaked? What is the public
Workers of the world, unite! goes the Communist song. Wait, not like that! gasp the Marxists. Because the workers of the world are uniting. They are standing up against an oppressive ruling class. The only problem for the Marxists is that the workers of the world have twigged that it’
New information reveals that Chris Hipkins not only breached Charlotte Bellis’ privacy by releasing her personal details but also ignored Ministry of Foreign Affairs instruction that those details were “not for public comment”, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Chris Hipkins has some serious explaining to do about
Disclosure: Male, Pale and Stale has a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), concerning Supply and Demand Theory as applied to Education – it has never helped him to get a job, but he is aware of how the industry operates On March 2nd 2022, in the NZ Herald, Chloe Swarbrick published
Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Labour went into the 2020 election promising to break up the supermarket duopoly and bring down the price of food. This policy is now essentially dead. The Commerce Commission’s final report into New Zealand’s uncompetitive supermarket sector
