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We’re not quite ready for it in New Zealand until the 2029 election on current trends, but Germany right now tells us what a full collapse of the centrist vote and centrist parties would look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y62MdGTo7CQ

It’s a good long interview and Bertram fairly gives credit to the Ardern government for her wins small though they were. But not enough credit is given to the effective government performance during COVID. New Zealand gets to look at COVID as a regrettable …

When diesel goes to $4 a litre by this weekend, we’ll get one more reminder of New Zealand’s choice to spend that great gift of natural gas on farm fertiliser.

Local governments in New Zealand employ about 41,000 people. Even if over 10,000 are in Auckland, that’s still a lot of families and voters to piss off. And now this foolish and weak DIA Minister has decided to defer the entire amalgamation process to next …

The BNZ makes about $400 million PER HOUR. So if NZFirst wanted to make it a manifesto necessity, Parliament would just propose legislation to nationalise, which would tank the share price, then buy it for half its worth, and use its voluminous profits to …

+100. Clearly an existential difference between human and cow waste spread over rural fields.

The Supermarkets in particular need to get beyond Denial and into Bargaining ASAP. If you go through the signatories to that letter, many of those companies get the majority of their work from the government. They might want to think again before they sign …

Not a diversion to the millions of New Zealanders who shop. It’s also core policy of three electoral parties in this election. Iran war aside, oligopolistic consumer pricing is the primary driver of household spend inflation that New Zealand has.

The Green Party launch of lobbying regulation recently could not have been more apt or more timely. This book deserves to help mobilise the activist base in Wellington at least for this election. It is chilling to see how well our Ministers and our public …

So I’m guessing you and your relatives are prepared for the impact of Labour’s CGT on our housing market: A sharp, long-term slowdown in sales volumes and reduced investor appetite … that’s on top of the depressed North Island market and a collective …

Exactly. It was a true liberation moment for the telecomms market, for industry, and for consumers.

“Authority said he was bad for his children.” He was bad for his children. I’m sure not even you dispute that. “They shot him in his childrens presence.” One child. He drew first, shot a Policeman in the head twice with a hunting rifle that he had loaded. …

There is only one party in Parliament in the last 20 years that has successfully separated a wholesaler from a retailer. And it’s not National.

I don’t mind the structural mea culpa’s, but the person to blame is the guy who kidnapped his children for years, separated them from social services, security, health services, relatives, friends, education, and any human contact, controlled them in fear …

There is ample scope in their policies – such as they are – to generate a coalition agreement with Greens and Labour; with far greater likelihood than a coalition agreement with National because: National will not target taxing assets, and will instead …