Australia is showing New Zealand how to resist the authoritarian Xi Jinping’s pressure and stay prosperous at the same time. You may recall that China imposed a series of targeted punitive trade measures against Australia in 2020. There were a series of escalating disputes between…
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This week's big news is that Jacinda used unparliamentary language to describe David Seymour. She had just been subject to a series of soundbite questions covering all sorts of topics. The initial question "[d]oes she stand by all her Government's statements and policies?" meant that…
This post by Richard Heinberg first appeared on November 21, 2022 at the Post Carbon Institute. ______________________________________________________ This essay is dedicated to the memory of Herman Daly, the father of ecological economics, who began writing about the absurdity of perpetual economic growth in the 1970s; Herman died on…
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Kim Hill slays tobacco company PR guy in this 7 minute interview, and doesn’t even break a sweat. She’s quite unfair, but rightly so. The question she didn’t ask is “why do you care?”. TCPRG says the new government Bill will cause many smokers to…
I have a confession to make. I grew up in South Auckland. Aupito William Sio's statement that South Auckland was the home of the young and beautiful and gifted has always struck a chord with me. My family's home property had a garage on it. …
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Vladimir Zelensky’s message to the New Zealand Parliament will be delivered in the last week before Christmas, in the bury-it time-slot. That seems appropriate, for much has changed since the heady days when our Parliament went straight for sanctions on Russia without discussion. The sanctions…
New Zealand politics is at an interesting stage. National is no longer tearing itself into pieces, at least publicly. It is currently maintaining discipline and its modus operandi is clear: Present a small target by having no policies whatsoever. The one policy that it had…
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The polling booths are closed. Who will be the next MP for Hamilton East? It will not be Gaurav Sharma. He is the classic example of why political ambition should be analysed carefully. The next MP should be National's Tamaka Potaka. Labour's Georgie Dansey is…
Brian Easton at Pundit provides a clear overview on what is happening in our large generator / retailer market at present and the way that their implicit collusion on excessive pricing looked at in economics. They're profiteering and even using future capital to pay off…
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Minister Mahuta’s water reforms are by some measure the most consequential industry intervention of this Labour government, and likely to be the most successful in over a decade. The most direct commercial intervention by the John Key National government was the Sky City deal of…
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