Just over a year ago the Government passed a constitutional abomination of a law and is now trying to make it worse and do this quickly. What is going on? The change is according to the Government about improving supermarket competition. When it was introduced…
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This government is deliberately enabling private seabed mining in Taranaki to prevent New Zealand’s largest future renewable electricity supply. For the past 10 years, Trans-Tasman Resources (owned by Manuka Resources from Australia) has been trying and failing to get approval to mine the seabed in…
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US neo-cons, defence-linked thinktanks and media attack Ireland's neutrality policy and position on Israel. Reproduced with permission from Mick Hall in Context Substack New president of Ireland Catherine Connolly at her inauguration on November 11. (Photo: Government of Ireland) First published by Consortium News As…
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New Zealanders are losing confidence in the institutions that once held us together. Can this be changed? A last-minute press conference with Police Minister Mark Mitchell and public service minister Judith Collins held last Tuesday evening pulled journalists out of the parliament bar and into…
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Over the past few months Winston Peters has gone up in my estimation regularly. Yesterday he did this by criticising Christopher Luxon's plans to have asset sales on the menu after the next election. Luxon kicked things off on Monday by stating that he wanted…
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Labour’s capital gains tax isn’t the end of the debate — it’s the beginning of a reckoning. The left’s real problem isn’t its policy. It’s the cult of reasonableness that’s made conviction sound impolite.Labour’s capital gains tax isn’t enough. Not even close. But it matters. After…
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