Rape and Pillage
The Conservation Minister, Tim Groser is quoted today: “If you can extract wealth from that [conservation land], that’s what we should do.” Stuff […]
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Bridging the Big Ditch
Mr Key is off in Australia this week promoting further measures to bind the two countries into a single economic market, and slash […]
Unassailable Evidence
Inaugural Lectures are very traditional University events; held these days to permit outstanding researchers to present an overview of their work to the […]
Break the Power of Money.
For some weeks our media has been distracted by various sideshows. Worth, Swineflu, Mt Albert, Flight 447 and of course David Bain, have […]
1600 Dead Again
Each year and every year, around 1600 New Zealanders die prematurely because we live in cold damp houses. This “excess winter death rate” […]
‘Bout that gurgling sound…
The average house in New Zealand should be worth about 3.5 times the average household income. (3.5 * $48k = $168k) The historic […]
Too Big to Fail
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of those rare thinkers who has the priceless ability to express complex ideas in ways that are immediately […]
Ominous Trickles before the Flood
The attack on democratic local government is taking shape in the public domain. 1. Hide was not made the Minister of Local Govt […]
Compare and Contrast
Prior to the last election our fearless MSM media uncritically repeated Key’s ‘NZ Sucks’ Crosby/Textor attack lines, framing an historically unremarkable rise in […]