New Zealand First has invoked the ‘Agree to Disagree’ provisions of the Coalition Agreement because it cannot support the announced 11.46 percent increase in the tobacco excise from 1 January 2020. We believe it causes more crime, targets the poor, and simply isn’t effective at reducing numbers of people who smoke
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Former RNZ board chairman Dr Jim Mather, whose eight-year tenure ended in June, described the financial result as extremely disappointing.
Perhaps the Wellington-centred media, who have been promulgating the idea that New Zealand is stuck in a slough of despond, need to get out more. The world’s always going to look miserable from a dyspeptic capital that is itself mired in the doldrums.
As anyone who has used public transport knows, it’s a bit of a horror show. Hence it’s refreshing to see a journalist, a senior writer for the New Zealand Herald, no less, in agreement. Did you hear? Auckland has invented train travel. Last month, the new City Rail
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I’m sure plenty of us outside the lecture theatres would just say: if the socialist society is so damn good, go and live there. Please.
