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Open mike 08/12/2024
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Maire Leadbeater “The Enemy Within”
The Enemy Within Maire Leadbeater, Potton and Burton, Nelson, 2024 With extensive use of internal documents, Maire Leadbeater’s excellent exposition of the various iterations of the security intelligence services tells a story of constant make-work in search of an adversary defined only by ideology. The…
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Are Lester Levy and Shane Reti “cooking the books?”
Related Article: Mickey Savage: Creative Accounting In July, after most Health NZ Board members had already resigned - many without notice, Shane Reti and Christopher Luxon held an extraordinary press conference to announce they were sacking the Health NZ Board and replacing it with Lester…
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Unacceptable
It appears that the Government's intent to politicise youth offending by making an elite few dress up in army uniforms and march around in an effort to solve a lifetime of neglect is not working out so well. The policy was always going to fail.…
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Open mike 07/12/2024
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Daily review 06/12/2024
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Open mike 06/12/2024
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Daily review 05/12/2024
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Tax and the Splintering World
Tax policy, like trade policy, attracts clever people, who love its intricacies. One thinks one knows a little about tax, then one attends seminars with the cognoscenti, and one understands the depth of one’s own ignorance. Perhaps it’s the interplay of Economics, Accounting and the…
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Creative accounting
There were firey scenes at the Health Select Committee yesterday as Labour's Ayesha Verrall accused Health boss Lester Levy of cooking the books. From Kate Green at Radio New Zealand: The Health Commissioner will seek an apology from the former Health Minister, after she suggested…
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Open mike 05/12/2024
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AT is to be gutted
A big announcement was made yesterday about the future of Auckland Transport. The Government announced reform of AT, effectively conceding that the behemouth National created in 2010 was the wrong structure. The Royal Commission on Auckland Governance report which preceded the super city recommended that…
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Daily review 04/12/2024
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Luxon Takes A Beating
Partial excerpt from Mountain Tui Substack post: Luxon Takes A Beating The latest polls are in. And who could have guessed that a government that destroys the economy (‘economic vandalism on steroids’), tears up our public health system (‘National is BAD for health’), de-stabilises Crown-Māori…
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Open mike 04/12/2024
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Daily review 03/12/2024
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Open mike 03/12/2024
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Daily review 02/12/2024
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Electric Shock
New Zealand is one of the slowest countries in the developed world to transition from combustion to electric vehicles. The shocks we are seeing in Europe to car makers and car buyers herald more trouble ahead. This year about 10% of New Zealand’s new car…
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Open mike 02/12/2024
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