Ananish Chaudhuri Professor of Behavioural and Experimental Economics University of Auckland ananishchaudhuri.com Author of: Nudge into lockdown? Behavioural Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19 It took the government 18 months to figure out that “elimination” was misguided. We were one of the few remaining holdouts on elimination; so much so
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The Government’s water reforms appear to be fatally flawed before legislation is even introduced to Parliament. The fact that the Minister of Local Government
Barbara McKenzie Wellington SNA Committee You mortgage yourself to the hilt for your dream home – the large section, the mix of garden, lawns and native bush. You delay putting in a drive because you like the feeling of being in the woods. You mull over how to eventually develop the
John Minto has got it almost completely right — in a Daily Blog post. No, BFD readers: no need to nip outside to see if the sun has turned as black as sackcloth. Nor have I been moving up from red wine to spirits before lunchtime (again). I can assure you
Jhan a-Maki Here is a photo that shows the very entrance to Muriwai Beach, one of the jewels of the Auckland province. Well over a million visitors a year walk past this point. The rusted and broken wire fence typifies the council’s attitude – cheap and nasty, ill-considered,
So you’ve made the ‘right’ decision. You’ve been ‘vaccinated’ for the good of your nation, for the health of your family and loved ones. You’ve dutifully signed up to the active persecution of the new Untermenschen (unvaccinated) and started actively preventing the unvaccinated from associating with you,
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Greetings to all of you and my thanks for the work you are doing to stay home and follow the Covid-19 level 3 protocols. I also warmly thank all who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 at this time. You are doing
ACT Party This week David Seymour visits Auckland, we offer improvements to Labour and National’s Housing policy, our Freedom Day petition reaches 28,000, Brooke van Velden reveals serious problems at ACC, and we fight Three Waters– if they steal it, we’ll repeal it. In the News David
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Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson Police Minister Poto Williams has graduated from the Jacinda Ardern school of spin following her latest media release about Police numbers. Labour promised 1800 new Police by 2020 – a target that it still hasn’t met. Last month Poto Williams admitted under questioning from ACT
It is unbelievable that the Wellington Grand Mercure MIQ hotel had a grand total of just one guest for a week while over 100 rooms in the hotel remained empty, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. This is a massive slap in the face for the tens of
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson It’s no wonder the Police are heading to arbitration over their pay offer when it’s less than half the rate of inflation. Labour is no longer the party for workers. Whether it’s Police, nurses or teachers, Labour has turned its back on
The quiet announcement by Minister Michael Wood today that the much-awaited trundling tram to the airport will cost $14 billion shows it is nothing but economic lunacy, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins and National’s Transport spokesperson David Bennett say. “Jacinda Ardern’s first announcement as Labour Leader
October 27th, 2021. It’s time to give a review of New Zealand from afar. Or as we have to call it from now on, New Xi-Land, in deference to our overseas controllers. We have to accept that Jacinda is not dim. She may not be the smartest tool
