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Why does the Business Roundtable employ an economic illiterate to represent them to the public and argue their corner on macroeconomics? Here's some of what Roger Kerr has to say in his op-ed in Granny Herald today: "What seems to be overlooked is that the…
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When I heard Shell is looking at selling its service stations in NZ and its shares in Fulton Hogan, my initial thought was that the Government should look at buying - to keep profits in NZ, to help ensure competition in the market as Kiwibank…
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According to the Dom Post Judith Collins is preparing legislation to reintroduce private prisons into New Zealand's corrections system. The arguments against privatisation are manifold and many of them have been covered at The Standard before. Bottom line for me is that the right to…
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It's great to see a lot of grassroots activity around the Left at the moment. No Right Turn has set up the Progbills wiki. It's open-source legislation, that works similarly to Wikipedia. You can go on and contribute to formulating draft Bills on left-wing issues,…