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Owen Jennings Owen Jennings is a former ACT MP. “Dear sir, your tax bill this year is $15,000. Please pay immediately. Kind regards IRD”. Imagine getting that demand, out of the blue. One of your first questions would most certainly be, “Just how much income are you assessing that
When National became government in 2008, Finance Minister Bill English’s determination to understand the extent of benefit-dependency led them to commission Taylor Fry to produce annual actuarial reports. These were duly published at the MSD website every year but ceased when the government changed in 2017. Now however, an
It appears that Christopher Luxon is going to sell us all out to Maori radicals and agitators. It is very hard not to come to that conclusion, after his dancing on the head of a pin over support for David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill. It would seem that he
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Joseph Vazquez Joseph is the MRC Associate Editor for Business & Free Speech America. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from The George Washington University in 2018. In June, 2019, he completed an exclusive fellowship with the Hertog Foundation, where he participated in their
If there’s one group that Australians distrust more than politicians, it’s the media. Increasingly, we can throw police onto the “Do Not Trust” pile. Like politicians and the media, security and police departments are now routinely lying to Australians’ faces. For instance, in 2017, ASIO boss Duncan Lewis
If there’s one thing we know about the left, it’s that they never, ever take “eff off” for an answer. Like the spoilt political toddlers they are, they react to even the firmest “No” by screaming and crying, stamping their little feet, and shaking their little fists. If
Craig Rucker Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in
David Hall PhD Candidate in Korean Studies, University of Central Lancashire University of Central Lancashire North Korea has demolished the Arch of Reunification, a monument that symbolised hope for reconciliation with the South. The decision to demolish the monument came shortly after the regime’s leader, Kim Jong-un, delivered a
Hon Simeon Brown Minister of Transport Transport Minister Simeon Brown has confirmed that the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax will end on 30 June 2024. “Today, I can confirm that the Government has agreed to remove the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax in line with our coalition commitments, and legislation will be
You know that panicked feeling when you show your friend a photo on your phone, and they start scrolling through your albums? Oh, well, neither do I… but I imagine it’s something like the cold sweat the Biden administration is in, as the Feds rifle in Joe’s Garage
John Tookey Professor of Construction Management, Auckland University of Technology Auckland University of Technology Cyclone Gabrielle caused chaos one year ago. Repairs due to that storm and the Auckland floods have required substantial time and resources. Hawkes Bay, parts of Auckland and the Coromandel all still bear the scars of
Mike Butler Mike Butler wrote ‘The Treaty: Basic Facts,’ which is available at trosspublishing.com Complaints that the Luxon coalition Government is about to re-write the Treaty of Waitangi are a bit rich considering that the treaty was quietly re-written under another administration nearly forty years ago. In 1986, with
Have any of you been looking for employment? How difficult is it to look at the public sector when you continue to see statements like this in public sector advertisements: Ideally you will also have a good understanding of tikanga (Maori customs and protocols), with the ability to weave te
Oxford Dictionary defines anarchy as “a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems” which pretty much sums up our current political state. Our democracy is under attack but not from overseas; this is an internal attack from a tiny minority sector of the
