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While this article uses Hamilton as the example, it really applies to all councils facing the same problem for the same reason. News that Hamilton City Council has proposed a 25.5% rates rise next year does not tell the full story. It is planned to be followed with a
Michael Ryan University of Waikato theconversation.com New finance minister Nicola Willis has claimed she was blindsided by the state of the government’s books. Days after stepping into the role, she said: The outgoing government has left us with some nasty surprises. There are some fiscal risks that are
The ongoing furore around smoking and the new Government’s stance is reaching farcical levels. Smoking remains a choice. Smoking is not about to become compulsory. For anyone. The voice of reason was Casey Costello, the Associate Health Minister, rejecting the criticism. “I think the narrative has got away on
voicesforfreedom.co.nz After speaking with a source Monday morning, there appears to be a valid explanation for the missing vaccination data released by the New Zealand whistleblower, who is now in police custody. We hope this information is helpful for analysts around the world to make more sense of
Te Pati Maori had a little tantrum, hurled insults at the King, swore an oath to a half-wrecked document that the Crown was a party to, and then eventually caved and swore a proper oath. What does it all mean? Te Pati Maori ran its own swearing in ceremony
Dear Editor The hostility of the NZ Mainstream Media to the new coalition Government was totally expected. They did not disappoint. Especially as they knew that the taxpayer-funded life-support was going to be stopped. Has a cessation date been made known? What of the so-called civil service?
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Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org Argentines elected 53-year-old political outsider Javier Milei as their new president on Sunday. Milei, an economist and self-described libertarian, pulled in nearly 56% of all votes counted
Alex Hickey whakatakitimes.nz STRINGING THEM ALONG Winston Peters has revealed he’s applying lessons learnt as a teenage lothario in his latest dealings with the media. New Zealand’s new Deputy Prime Minister has wasted no time in taking aim at the media just days into the job, accusing
Move over Liz Warren and “Sacheen Littlefeather”(aka Maria Cruz) — there’s another Pretendian set to take the plastic war-bonnet of World’s Fakest Indian. For anyone under the age of 65, the name Buffy Sainte-Marie will mean nothing, but in the 60s and 70s, she was the
Ananish Chaudhuri Ananish Chaudhuri, PhD. Professor of Experimental Economics | University of Auckland ananishchaudhuri.com bassettbrashandhide.com Winston Peters has suggested that mainstream media were “bribed” by the previous Labour government. Members of the media are outraged. Peters, true to form, is being provocative. I don’t think Peters’ strident tone
Go back a century and visualise a nation. Until 1890 (at the earliest) the nation was seen as quite backward; little more than a pioneering frontier backwater, well behind the times compared with much of the rest of the world but things changed rather rapidly and it quickly became very
Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD at the University
In 2009 the John Key National-led Government stripped away Crown ownership of the coastline to make it easier for Maori to make claims. The tribal ownership of New Zealand by 2040, indicated in the He Puapua document, was a concerning issue leading into the election. The economy, education, crime,
The press pile on against the new Government goes on and on, literally and figuratively, and on. One of Saturday’s efforts was a long op-ed from Sir Ian Taylor expressing his buyer’s regret having voted blue for just the third time in his 70+ years. Sir Ian
Right about now plenty of ordinary Kiwi motorists will be stuck in a gridlock organised by Te Pati Maori, who are protesting about not liking the results of pesky things called elections and democracy. They are angry and shouty, and disruptive, and they are acting in cahoots with the media.
