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The Kiwibuild portfolio has been a tough one, but to be fair, Phil Twyford only has himself to blame. He promised the earth, without a clue as to how he was going to actually pull it off. The general thinking now is that Kiwibuild was conceived by Annette King, publicised
While Hong Kong is protesting against the Chinese Regime, on the other side of the world the topic of Forced Organ Harvesting in China is in the spotlight. After a year-long investigation, an independent people’s tribunal has unanimously concluded that prisoners of conscience are being killed in China
National party The woefully inadequate funding in Budget 2019 to make buildings earthquake-safe will do little to help owners and could put lives at risk by ensuring some buildings aren’t brought up to code any time soon, National’s Building and Construction spokesperson Andrew Bayly says. “The government’
Jacinda Ardern’s “wellbeing budget” steamed up the undies of a lot of journalists and the sort of people who share ‘inspirational’ quotes on their Facebook wall, but actual economists are just a tad more sceptical. They’re especially sceptical of the notion that Ardern is doing something revolutionary, as
In contrast to certain other governments which seem hell-bent on shutting down the resources sector, the Morrison government is pressuring energy companies to put their foot on the gas. Paradoxically, despite an abundance of known gas reserves, Australia is experiencing a local shortage. Partly that is because of the
It’s unsurprising that Tasmanian Labor leader Rebecca White keeps yapping at Jacinda Ardern’s heels. As I wrote some time back, both women are “young, inexperienced socialists”, both banking on moribund incumbents and an arcane electoral system to grease the skids of office. Like Ardern, White is fixated on
When is a ‘hack’ not a hack? Although the National party achieved some embarrassment for the Treasury IT staff they seem to have failed in their attempts at Question Time to score any hits over the ‘hack’. It seems someone used a search box on the Treasury website and the
When the Democrats lost an election that their media camp-followers had assured them they had in the bag, they turned their fury outward. Reeling from a similarly unexpected (to them) loss, the Australian Labor Party is turning its rage inward. The party and the labour movement, in general, are
What is it with socialists and their attraction to old technology? Auckland Mayor Phil Goff is yet another socialist who prefers to look to the past for transport solutions rather than the future. Auckland’s trains have resumed operating after a “signalling issue” paralysed the city’s networks this morning.
What exactly is John Armstrong smoking? What exactly makes him think that the Greens have ‘shed’ their loony left image? It has largely gone unnoticed, but the Greens have managed to achieve something of special importance during their first stint as a partner in Government. The party has got shot
Apparently, the Green party have been doing quite well up until recently. They were starting to lose their ‘loony left’ reputation and were settling in nicely to their new role as a minor party in a coalition government. […] Getting the rank-and-file membership to accept the cold, hard fact
