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Jacinda Ardern is digging a COVID hole for herself, a hole that gets bigger with each passing day. The strategies she has put in place for eliminating the virus are not sustainable in the longer term. The reality is that at some point, she is going to have to face
There was a lot to admire about the Australasian banks during the GFC. While the USA had its Freddie Macs and Fannie Maes, and the Bank of Scotland just about went broke, the banks in Australia and New Zealand never faltered. They had never really joined in the global party
Jacinda Ardern is running scared of today’s face of the day. How scared is she? Scared enough to not want to face National leader Judith Collins in the bog-standard election 2020 election debates. Piking out of these crucial debates is unheard of. I have heard that Judith told
The book “Pressing the Right Buttons” by Alison Mooney comes to mind as New Zealand’s election gets closer. Mooney writes about four different personalities and how understanding your own and other personalities helps to ‘speed read’ people and to understand what presses the right buttons to best achieve goals
Luke Redward nzinitiative.org.nz In a predictable statement earlier this week, the Green Party co-leader declared her party’s undying love for taxation. A rather Orwellian take on the libertarian war cry of “tax is theft,” Marama Davidson said those who fork out money to the state are
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Audrey Young, in her article in the Weekend Herald, sought to highlight the divide in the National caucus. Her view is that the liberals leaving the party were a gain for the religious right. She expects the exit of a swag of socially liberal women will mean a balance between
Dr Eric Crampton nzinitiative.org.nz Last week, the Government announced that the real price of entering New Zealand for many returning Kiwis, for loved ones trapped abroad, and for others who might wish safely to join this lifeboat, is infinite. No amount of money will get anyone else into
Subscribe to a Silver subscription or upgrade your existing Basic or Bronze level Subscription to Silver today. We’ve had another brutal week in politics, this time with the demise of Iain Lees-Galloway who has let an office affair destroy his political career. Some are blaming Judith Collins for
Damien Grant in his Stuff opinion piece last week questions Judith Collins’s lack of economic vision. His assessment is brutal (I don’t agree, but I am not questioning his right to an opinion). However, to complete his demolition of her he exaggerated her involvement in the fall from
NZ First Minister Tracey Martin: ‘I didn’t think I was good enough’ Minister and NZ First MP Tracey Martin talks to Andrea Vance about working in the shadow of Winston Peters and the future of the party. Imposter syndrome – cruel doubts and a persistent anxiety that we are not
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Mark Alexander papundits.wordpress.com Donald Trump’s election was the catalyst for an epidemic of the emotional incontinence called “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” that Democrat Party politicos and their Leftmedia outlets incessantly provoke. The Demos’ primary target for this unceasing inflammation is their largest voter bloc, women, whom they endeavour
