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Written By: Leaps - Date published: 9:53 am, August 13th, 2026
Listening to ZB is your first mistake ;-) We need to tax wealth somehow rather than just wages. A land tax is one way. Another is a wealth tax similar to the Greens proposal. Of course the neolibs on ZB are going to pan anything they consider unorthodox!Written By: Leaps - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 9th, 2026
Agreed Bearded Git. You just have to look at what's happening over the ditch in Australia. Solar, batteries and wind power are actually driving down the cost of electricity over there. This could happen here with appropriate encouragement of home solar ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 10:22 am, May 12th, 2026
Taken straight from the Atlas playbook. In the hopefully dying days of the COC they are trying their best to knock off as many Atlas focused initiatives as possible despite some of them not being that popular with the voters.Written By: Leaps - Date published: 9:19 am, April 23rd, 2026
I think the biggest hurdle to overcome in moving away from a neoliberal policy framework is inertia. Currently many in the MSM and other commentators are mired with in the neoliberal framework and can't see the need to move outside this mentality. Asking a ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 10:49 am, February 10th, 2026
Absolutely agree Bearded Git. I have just installed a 16kw solar array with a 9 kw battery. This is the kind of system that government needs to encourage here in NZ as it will help iron out peaks and troughs in electricity use. Australia is forward ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 9:51 am, January 21st, 2026
Absolutely not, hell no, for a plethora of reasons as outlined above. But a weak leader wanting to make a splash on the international stage. It might be tempting to Luxon to have an international diversion from the sorry affairs of state at home.Written By: Leaps - Date published: 10:03 am, January 13th, 2026
Couldn't agree more Ad. Fortunately the developer was given short shrift by the judge who threw the case out. It does try to tap into the old business mantra of privatise the profits and publicise the losses.Written By: Leaps - Date published: 1:46 pm, January 9th, 2026
Yeah neoliberalism is a hard nut to crack. I'm not sure we have a viable alternative that is palatable to the masses. The problem is that we all want to believe the lie of neoliberalism, but few actually recognise the lie for which it is. Monbiot in his ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 9:09 am, December 19th, 2025
Well this is a unique situation where the minor coalition parties are having more sway on policy than National. I suppose this is the result of having a weak PM.Written By: Leaps - Date published: 10:34 am, December 1st, 2025
Besides building and infrastructure costs increasing, the other driver of rates increases is governments putting more and more costs on to councils without increasing their funding. National are particularly adept at doing this. Then they do a 180 and ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 11:37 am, April 12th, 2025
Well said Anne.Written By: Leaps - Date published: 9:31 am, February 25th, 2025
It is a bit of an oxymoron isn't it! I think many of the "lawyer" jokes work for libertarians too.Written By: Leaps - Date published: 10:13 am, April 11th, 2024
Even the longest journey begins with a single step. Yes Labour may not have done as much as many would have liked for the environment and climate change. However, they did not more than the current Ghidorah government who have tried their level best to ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 10:12 am, December 14th, 2023
Details are not important in headlines! The recall applies to the USA, though it's possible Tesla may make similar changes in other countries. Also, the recall will be fixed by an OTA update in software. Sounds like the change is just a tweak in the self- ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 11:00 am, November 16th, 2023
Written By: Leaps - Date published: 10:51 am, November 8th, 2023
Yes it did boils very complex set of questions/problems down to a single yes or no vote. It's very much like the BREXIT vote in the UK. We all know how well that ended over there!!!Written By: Leaps - Date published: 9:55 am, August 21st, 2023
And therein lies the problem LawfulN. It's politically unsaleable because most people and politicians do not understand (or refuse to accept) that there are limits to what we can do. We are partying hard on the heady swill of extractive/polutting ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 12:35 pm, July 15th, 2022
I'm pretty sure the Christchurch stadium will be under water in a lot less than 2000 years. More like 100 years given the every increasing CO2 levels. It'll make a nice open air swimming pool ;-)Written By: Leaps - Date published: 12:11 pm, December 15th, 2020
Sadly I tend to agree with you Stuart. The short election cycle in NZ does not help either. Regardless I think MPs are still talking about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic rather than actually trying to stop the ship from sinking in the first ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 8:59 am, September 26th, 2019
As someone in the industry, I have no problem with improving things for tenants to make it possible to have longer term rental properties. However, this needs to be balanced by investment property owners not loosing too many of their rights to control ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 9:23 am, September 6th, 2019
Yes, well done indeed San Francisco - standing up to the NRA bully boys is a brave thing to do and it needs to be done.Written By: Leaps - Date published: 9:26 am, August 27th, 2019
Sadly this simplistic drivel appeals to many unthinking voters. The world is a little more complex than this. There's a reason why regulations exist. In fact given how the free market is not delivering in many areas (e.g. the environment) we need more ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 9:50 am, May 30th, 2019
The question that no one has asked that really should be answered by National: Did they or anyone else use their knowledge of what happens on budget day when they were in power to perform this circumvention of the website security? If they did it's highly ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 8:50 am, November 29th, 2018
It's great that they are finally doing this. The only problem is this should have happened 10-20 years ago. About bloody time. As for whether it is too late: given our lack of decisive action so far on global warming I suspect it is too late. But hey ...Written By: Leaps - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 5th, 2018
Yeah right! That's the longest Tui ad I've ever seen ;-)Written By: Leaps - Date published: 9:38 am, April 30th, 2018
This is an excellent post summarising National's response to do with anything for the environment. Nationalistas really don't get the fact that if you truly care about the environment then a lot of the Green party's social policies are needed as well to ...
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