What About Accountability and Transparency?
Clearly, it’s time for reform in this area. But it won’t happen without public pressure on the politicians.
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NZ Politics Daily: 14 October 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FAST TRACK Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Why the govt's fast-track bill could turn into its own Three Waters debacle (paywalled) Jo Moir (RNZ): Revealed: All the 300 Fast-Track projects and ministers' conflicts of interest Thomas Manch (Post): Ten controversial projects
Goodness, Who Would’ve Thought?
Latest gun crime statistics show, unsurprisingly, that criminals are committing gun crime and not licensed firearms owners.
They Want to Control the Past to Control Your Children
The war on history is a war on the West.
Latest Poll Should Give Luxon Kittens.
The latest Taxpayers’ Union/Curia poll shows a stark contrast to the Roy Morgan Poll. Christopher Luxon should be nervous.
NZ Politics Daily: 11 October 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Why Luxon won’t outstay his welcome Matthew Hooton (Herald): NZ First celebrates strongest position this century (paywalled) Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): MPs lack accountability and transparency for their taxpayer expenses ODT Editorial: Love is blind (paywalled) Audrey Young
How Dare They Honour Their Promises!
You know that things are seriously awry in modern media when an old warhorse journalist lambasts the government for doing the unspeakable – honouring election promises. Yet here we are.
Support What You Love or It Goes Away
Understand that this rule is still in force today. The state does not want you to ‘do’ anything too dangerous. It much prefers that you focus on gathering ‘knowledge’ – but only the right kind.
The SFO Will Be Kept Busy Monitoring the Fast Track Act List
BusinessNZ chief executive Katherine Rich has come out saying how pleased businesses are with the list. Likewise, the Employers and Manufacturers Association credits the announcement as a potential major economic boost.
NZ Politics Daily: 10 October 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FAST TRACK Farah Hancock (RNZ): $500,000 in political donations associated with fast track projects Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): A Fast-Track Backwards Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: Fast-track list: The favoured projects that could be pie in the sky Brent Edwards (NBR)
How Long Has Chippy Got?
National support up in September as National-led Government increases lead
The Greatest Human Failings
Overy concluded that if warfare has a very long human history, it also has a future. If that’s true, then if the wasted application of so much human resources into warfare technology continues then humanity may itself prove to have no future.