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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Sir Bob Jones: More vile behaviour from David Seymour


Below, a typical Stuff story re David Seymour

Last week ACT leader David Seymour brutally shocked Stuff journalists at a press conference when he boldly declared, “one and one make two”.

A female reporter promptly fainted while another vomited. Many male reporters present emerged ashen faced and plainly traumatised. The wider condemnatory reactions have been swift.

Chris Trotter: Misremembering Justinian’s Taxes.


WHEN BARBARA EDMONDS made reference to the Roman Empire, my ears pricked up. It is, lamentably, very rare to hear a politician admit to any kind of familiarity with the past – especially the distant past. To hear Labour’s shadow Minister of Finance offer the career of the Emperor Justinian as a cautionary tale about the dangers of excessive taxation was refreshing – and profoundly disappointing.

John MacDonald: Let’s hope Kāinga Ora gets the message


There seem to be three main points of view when it comes to the Government’s crackdown on cruddy state housing tenants.

We’ve got some people living in Kāinga Ora properties saying they don’t think much will change because we’ve been too soft, for too long.

Ele Ludemann: Will it make the boat go faster?


The Reserve Bank is advertising for a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion advisor.

The Bank has one mandate – to keep inflation between one and three percent.

Dr Michael John Schimdt: King Charles III, Our Fifth Old


In my previous piece regarding the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) I outlined how the cultural changes overtaking the RBNZ were also overtaking its primary mission and probably did not, ironically, reflect a good return on investment (ROI). The recent release of commemorative coins by the RBNZ, coupled with a consumer complaint, prompted me to remember a lesser-recounted piece of history. This perspective allows us to view both issues in a broader context.

Tuesday March 19, 2024 

                    

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Heather du Plessis-Allan: We need to make sure politicians deliver on their promises

National is making noises that sound an awful lot like they might not deliver the full tax cuts in July like they promised.

Finance Minster Nicola Willis was on the radio this morning, she was asked about it and she replied that she still intended to roll out the tax cuts in July- but it was subject to Cabinet discussions, so she could not give a cast-iron guarantee it would happen.

Ooh, she's playing with fire.

David Farrar: The Interislander incompetence


Georgina Campbell reports:

The Government's position on the mega ferries was reinforced this week after Marlborough Harbourmaster Jake Oliver set limits for the maximum size of new vessels using Tory Channel to access ports at Picton and Shakespeare Bay.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 19/3/24



Bishop scores headlines with crackdown on unwelcome tenants – but Peters scores, too, as tub-thumper and diplomat

Housing Minister Chris Bishop delivered news – packed with the ingredients to enflame political passions – worthy of supplanting Winston Peters in headline writers’ priorities.

He popped up at the post-Cabinet press conference to promise a crackdown on unruly and antisocial state housing tenants.

Mike's Minute: It was our fault Covid turned into a "thing"


I watched an interview the other week with Marama Davidson.

It came after the elevation of Chloe Swarbrick to the leadership. Davidson wasn’t at the press conference, Chloe told us, because it turns out she had Covid.

In watching the interview, although Covid ridden, Davidson looked and sounded perfectly well, although she was isolating, which is what we do, isn't it?

Cam Slater: A Battle of Wits with an Unarmed Man


Chris Hipkins really is as politically stupid as he appears. In his infinite wisdom, he decided to have a battle of wits with Winston Peters, a battle that I might add he is singularly ill-equipped to deal with. But he went there.

Tony Orman: Natural Climate Change

An article in a recent farming paper entitled “Carbon Credits a Discredit” by Leo Cooney rekindled questions about climate change, the ETS, indeed the whole matter of climate change formerly known as global warming. There arises much confusion in the manipulation by proponents of global warming to any modicum of thought and pondering.

I have pondered why the term "global warming” reverted to "climate change"? That in itself is confusing because climate change has always been happening in cyclic fashion. There’s scientific evidence.

Brendan O'Neill: Fatah is right – Hamas is to blame for the war in Gaza


It’s time we called out the woke left’s neo-imperial belief that Israel is to blame for everything.

So, there you have it: Fatah is now taking a more grown-up line on the Gaza war than most of the woke left. Where Western radicals are still running around damning Israel as a uniquely barbaric state that is carrying out a genocidal pillage of Gaza, Fatah says that, actually, a certain terror army called Hamas bears vast moral responsibility for this calamity. It was Hamas’s ‘adventure’ of 7 October that lit the fire of this war, this ‘horrific and crueller [Nakba] than the Nakba of 1948’, Fatah says. It’s true – so why can so few in the West see it?

Ele Ludemann: Anti-social tenants no longer tolerated


Anti-social tenants will no longer be tolerated in state houses:

Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. . .

David Farrar: Labour’s hysteria


Newshub reports:

Chris Hipkins has doubled down on his accusation the Government is acting like a dictatorship.

The labour leader took his troops on a soul-searching field trip today where one MP even momentarily likened the Coalition to russia's regime.

Geoffrey Miller: Wang Yi’s perfectly-timed, Aukus-themed visit to New Zealand


Timing is everything.

And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment.

The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017.

Breaking Views Update: Week of 17.3.24






Tuesday March 19, 2024 

News:
Tiaki Taonga - Protecting taonga Māori

That question is at the heart of the groundbreaking WAI 262 claim.

The claim was lodged at the Waitangi Tribunal in 1991 by six claimants on behalf of six iwi - Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa and Ngātiwai from Northland, Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu from the East Coast and Ngāti Koata from the top of the South Island.

Bob McCoskrie: The child transgender agenda is crumbling


It was a good week for biology, the medical profession and children with gender dysphoria last week. The narrative that children can change their sex with the aid of social transitioning, puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, chest binders and tucking is exploding before our eyes. Around the world, medical professionals are finally waking up to a radical activist experiment on our most vulnerable children, Unfortunately New Zealand is still to come to the party – courtesy of an atrocious mainstream media who refuse to discuss this issue as they protect the radical ideology and its adherents. But we’ll tell you. The house of cards has started to fall.

Kerre Woodham: Do you really expect tax cuts?


I wanted to get into this on Friday when the IRD released it’s figures about the online gambling tax, and we were overrun by events. So, let's have a look at this today for the first hour at least because the Government books are open, the numbers have been crunched, and reality is starting to bite.

Brendan O'Neill: Ireland and the terrible truth about wokeness


Ireland’s latest referendum exposed just how zealous and reckless the elites’ culture war has become.

Hands down my favourite part of the referendum revolt in Ireland last week was the discovery of ‘miraculous medals’ among the ballot papers.