Quick Hit: Pharmac Said No in May
National wants $604m more for medicines, paid for mostly by a 10 per cent aid cut with the Pacific protected. In May its own budget turned down Pharmac’s request of about $800m and gave it $54m.
NZ Politics
The Battle Over the Waitangi Tribunal
When the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process was introduced by Norman Kirk’s Labour government in 1975, it was framed as a means of dealing with ongoing injustices. The Waitangi Tribunal was established as a permanent commission of inquiry to investigate contemporary claims that the Crown had breached the Treaty.
Luxon Is Finished, So Split Your Vote And Save The Coalition
National 25.9 per cent, its worst since 2020. Neither bloc gets to 61. Luxon survived two recent confidence votes and the party is paying for it. Vote National in the electorate, party vote ACT or NZ First.
The Gilded Lobster-Pot of the Globalist Left
Wallowing in the Globalist trough in Fiji.
Crown Asset or Financial Fiction?
If we don’t stand up and demand real structural change now, we are flat out robbing our children’s future to pay for today’s political PR stunts, and the taxpayers will be the ones sent straight to jail without passing GO.
Election 2026: I Feel Your Pain
Australians have been shafted plenty, at the last few elections.
Quick Hit: Quarter-Trillion and No Books
Taxpayers’ Union puts Green promises at $236.7b, or $114,239 a household, after the passenger rail add. Swarbrick wants Finance. Full books still weeks away.
Welfare Is Missing From the Campaign
Dragging eyes away from aimless, spirit-sapping, benefit-dependence towards resented superannuitants might play well politically, but it won’t address the disaster that welfarism is. Who is going to talk about it?
If the Plan Matches National’s, the Bill Is What Labour Is Hiding
Labour kept Willis’s $2.4b allowance, hit surplus in the same year, costed one pay equity claim, and parked the rest in $10.5b of “headroom”. Luxon v Hipkins is Tuesday. Ask who signed the IOU.
When a Cycleway Makes Your Builder Think Twice
If we are going to spend substantial sums of public money and permanently alter the way people live, work, shop, visit one another and move around their city, we should have the evidence to demonstrate that the promised benefits are actually being delivered.
A Grumpy Old Man
Revolutions have been fought over taxation without representation. Democracy is the tyranny of the majority. But a tyranny of 16-year-olds?
Your $82,011 for a Party That Wants Israel Gone
A party campaigning within New Zealand, in our election, at our expense, for the destruction of Israel. And the Electoral Commission and the ombudsman are okay with this.
