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Today’s move to amalgamate RNZ and TVNZ is yet another wasteful and pointless move by the Government for the future of the media sector, National’s Broadcasting & Media spokesperson Melissa Lee says. “The Government has spent the last several years wasting millions of dollars on countless reviews, consultations
Dear Editor I have read your articles in the past as they have provided me with a sense of balanced normality; however, I now find myself reading articles that seem to “rubbish” the right-wing parties. OK, both ACT and National leaders may have some failings (so do many people)
Craig Pirrong brownstone.org Dr Pirrong is Professor of Finance, and Energy Markets Director for the Global Energy Management Institute at the Bauer College of Business of the University of Houston. He was previously Watson Family Professor of Commodity and Financial Risk Management at Oklahoma State University, and a faculty
What is it about governments that drives them to find ever-more-inventive ways of wasting other peoples’ money? I’m not just talking about the $120 million the US government pays out every year in retirement benefits to dead employees. Nor am I talking about the $800 million budget
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Chris Hipkins and Ashley Bloomfield couldn’t answer basic but critical questions about the COVID response Health Select Committee this morning. How many people are being admitted to hospital with COVID? How will the Government define that the wave has peaked? What is the public
Alpha Whiskey Good morning I write to you from my desk in the UAE. It’s been a thoroughly wonderful winter with temperatures between 22 and 30°C, but I fear that that will change soon as we start the climb into the late 40s over summer. As a major
Workers of the world, unite! goes the Communist song. Wait, not like that! gasp the Marxists. Because the workers of the world are uniting. They are standing up against an oppressive ruling class. The only problem for the Marxists is that the workers of the world have twigged that it’
New information reveals that Chris Hipkins not only breached Charlotte Bellis’ privacy by releasing her personal details but also ignored Ministry of Foreign Affairs instruction that those details were “not for public comment”, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Chris Hipkins has some serious explaining to do about
Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a global food safety testing and certification company (now known as FoodChain ID) Information Opinion Yesterday the World Health Organisation issued an Interim Statement on COVID-19 vaccines in the context of the circulation of the Omicron SARS-CoV-
Disclosure: Male, Pale and Stale has a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), concerning Supply and Demand Theory as applied to Education – it has never helped him to get a job, but he is aware of how the industry operates On March 2nd 2022, in the NZ Herald, Chloe Swarbrick published
Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Labour went into the 2020 election promising to break up the supermarket duopoly and bring down the price of food. This policy is now essentially dead. The Commerce Commission’s final report into New Zealand’s uncompetitive supermarket sector
“I wouldn’t describe it that way, there is an impact that people are feeling undeniably but I wouldn’t describe it in that way,” Ardern told AM. ‘Really irked me’: Kiwis hit back after PM declines to call cost of living spike a crisis (msn.com) No doubt this
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager
Now that the full implications of the High Court ruling that vaccine mandates for Police and Defence Force workers were unlawful are being understood, the Public Service Commission has advised government departments and agencies to “pause” the dismissal of staff who are refusing to get vaccinated: Government departments and agencies
