Search Results » @author "Simon louisson"
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Comment on New Zealand’s Gas Panic Was Entirely Lies
Maybe this rings a bell? https://thestandard.nz/simeon-brown-peddling-porkies-about-gas-shortage/
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NZ sleepwalking towards bastardised hybrid health model
… worst of both worlds healthcare. Simon Louisson is a retired former journalist, …
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Simeon Brown peddling porkies about gas shortage
… campaign group Common Grace Aotearoa. (Simon Louisson is a retired journalist, who …
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National set to renege on Paris Agreement
… as hydro, wind and solar. Simon Louisson is a former journalist who …
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Comment on We should have a chat about Artificial Intelligence
I recently downloaded ChatGPT and as an experiment asked it to tell me about our house, the Pilot’s Cottage, a historic house in Seatoun. While it started off ok – “The Pilot’s Cottage is a historic building located in the suburb of Seatoun in Wellington, …
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Is Labour heading for Muriwai-scale landslide win?
chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, labour, national, nicola willis, Politics, polls, same old national… future. She is deeply tactical. (Simon Louisson is a former journalist and …
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Sturgeon, like Ardern, a casualty of online abuse
art, books, jacinda ardern, Media, media abuse, misogny, Nicola Sturgeon, online abuse, Politics, social media, taxpayers union… platforms that were safe environments. (Simon Louisson is a former reporter and …
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Windfall tax on bank super-profits needed to help fund repair
… help lock-in its advantage. (Simon Louisson is a former reporter and …
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Comment on Govt public media reform performance makes AB’s look good
BusinessDesk has a story today in which TVNZ ceo Simon Power expressed concerns that the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill did not fully protect editorial independence in its current form. “The bill is quite poorly constructed,” Power said. “It needs …
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Govt public media reform performance makes AB’s look good
… submission to the select committee. (Simon Louisson worked for over 30 years …
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Best yet in National Party splatter series in production
… nationwide in bookstores for $35 (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street …
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Comment on Is Parker procrastinating or scene setting for fairer tax system?
The advantage of simplicity over fairness is often bought up by accounting experts whose job often entails devising complex ways for people to avoid paying tax. Re CGT, all of the TWG unanimously agreed on the need for a CGT although there was a minority …
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Is Parker procrastinating or scene setting for fairer tax system?
… seven taxes. We’re not.” Simon Louisson, a former journalist, reported for …
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Labour has overseen massive inequality increase – Bernard Hickey
… Group nearly three years ago. Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street …
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Is National’s Luxon among the quick or the dead?
… a smooth-talking rich man. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street …
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Govt unprepared for transition when Queen dies
… all participants were over 60. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street …
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Why isn’t govt hitting utes much harder?
… and ‘80s,” Dr Wild says. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street …
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Media crisis may be most problematic
… . They are a commercial organisation’.” (Simon Louisson is a former journalist who …
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Large caucuses can be devilishly dangerous as National showed
… makes use of idle hands. (Simon Louisson worked as a journalist for …
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Will consensus building paralyse Ardern?
capital gains, Economy, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, labour, national, Politics, same old national, taxJacinda Ardern aims to bet both ways on our future – transforming Aotearoa to rid us of inequality and poverty, and building consensus. She has won a mandate with her historic, landslide victory but can she do both? “I have been a consensus builder, but I …
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Will Jacinda Ardern meet her promise to transform?
election 2017, election 2020, greens, jacinda ardern, john key, labour, nz first, political parties, Politics, poverty, tax, winston peters… how well she seizes it. (Simon Louisson worked as a journalist for …
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Aotearoa’s free-market waste experiment dumped
… seems a good first step. (Simon Louisson worked as a journalist for …
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Comment on Reasons to sack a Minister
Are you trying to say that if the affair was outed earlier then it may have been stopped in its tracks and Douglas et al would have been able to continue the monetarist experiment including the 20% flat tax proposal?
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Comment on Reasons to sack a Minister
I think this business is about Dirty Politics and political optics. Long-term affairs like this are rarely a secret in Parliament. For example, everyone in the Press Gallery when I worked there knew about the affair between David Lange and his speech …
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Comment on Can A Renewed Provincial Growth Fund Save Us?
Economist, ex Roundtable member and former Comalco general manager Kerry McDonald argues in an article on Businessdesk that the Tiwai Point smelter has never had a subsidised power supply and its closure is unlikely to benefit consumers. https:// …
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Comment on Depression looms as rapidly as Covid spreads
Remember Thornley adjusted for the fact that most cruise passengers are elderly
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Depression looms as rapidly as Covid spreads
… print our way of this.” (Simon Louisson formerly worked for Reuters, the …
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Comment on Wellington mayor-elect flip-flops on sale of Wellington Airport
Just to clarify – WIAL is what as known as a requiring authority and local authority under the designation and compulsory acquisition processes of the Public Works Act. The golf club was counselled that “assuming that WIAL is able to produce compelling …
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Wellington mayor-elect flip-flops on sale of Wellington Airport
… . We will watch this space. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street …