Recently I received an email from the Antique Arms National President, Andrew Edgecombe. In the email, he has a crack at me (Note to Andrew: I don’t use minions) and my messages about the failures of COLFO. I will address his email in this article on the points that
Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Should anyone have trust in politicians, given the manner in which they solicit money from the wealthy? Probably not, since virtually every party in Parliament in recent times has
Dear Editor You really do have to wonder at the inability of journalists and opposition MPs to ask questions of this government. Here’s an example: Friday a week ago during Checkpoint with Lisa Owen on RNZ, Ashleigh Bloomfield said Covid-19 vaccinations were now up to 50,000 a
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I’m calling on the Government to cancel its cycle bridge across the Waitemata Harbour, National’s Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. “It appears the cycle bridge, and the projected $785 million it will cost, are based not on mass public demand, measurable environmental outcomes, nor economic benefit. “The initial
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister has her priorities completely warped if she thinks being last in the developed world for the vaccine rollout is pleasing. According to ‘Our World in Data’, New Zealand has fewer vaccinations per person than any other OECD country. In response to that, Jacinda
David Seymour ACT Leader The Benefit-Cost Ratio of Auckland’s cycle bridge is the equivalent of putting your money on the Share Market knowing you were going to lose 60c for every dollar invested . In answer to Written Questions from the ACT Party, Transport Minister Michael Wood says the
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A private Super Fund purveyor, Sam Stubbs, gained ill-deserved headlines when he described the decision by Rob Muldoon to scrub Labour’s 1974 Super Scheme as, “The Worst Decision by a New Zealand politician ever”. Plainly Stubbs knows bugger all about New Zealand history,
I was chatting to a client the other day. He has been in the construction industry for the last three decades. Now in his 50s, his personal situation is quite comfortable; he has only a small mortgage and a nice house in a coastal area, and he has decided to
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. He has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker. The latest “Perceptions of Asia” survey from the Asia New Zealand Foundation, released
The NZ Herald and NZME now stand accused of actually doing what they falsely accused me of doing…taking cash from the Government for content and not declaring it: The Government’s housing developer Kainga Ora has been paying $25,000 a month to sponsor media stories on NZME’s
What is Minister of Police Poto Williams going to do about the dangerous and anti-social behaviour of gang funeral processions, given this now appears to be a recurring issue? National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown asks. Police in Auckland have sent out a notification that they are expecting a
David Seymour ACT Leader This Government’s vaccine rollout is reminiscent of a losing test cricket team desperately trying to increase the run rate as the days go by. The Government is assuring us that we’ll all be vaccinated by the end of the year but we’re currently
Recently I received an email from the Antique Arms National President, Andrew Edgecombe. In the email, he has a crack at me (Note to Andrew: I don’t use minions) and my messages about the failures of COLFO. I will address his email in this article on the points that
