4 days ago · Guest post by Jordan Williams Last year, my former boss (i.e. Taxpayers’ Union Chair), and friend, Casey Costello took a lot of criticism and unfair suggestions that she is in the pocket of the tobacco industry or otherwise has acted dishonourably with her decision to treat smokefree (heated) tobacco differently from traditional cigarettes from a tax perspective. The criticism of Casey has ...

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Jan 6, 2025 · Completely agree to growing the pie. New Zealand is resource rich, including in our massive EEZ, but also with our educated and connected population. Maybe we should ask the eco NIMBYs to forgo their superannuation. Mary Holm a few years back consulted IRD about the impact of over 65s still working and receiving super. She was told by IRD that setting this up would cost more than the savings ...

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Jan 19, 2025 · PM Christopher Luxon has done his second reshuffle, and it is a pretty significant one. Changes are: Nicola Willis gains Economic Growth (formerly Economic Development) and loses Public Services Chris Bishop gains Transport and loses Sport Shane Reti gains Science, Stats and Universities and loses Health Simeon Brown …

NZ Initiative Chair Roger Partridge has written an excellent report, called Who Makes the Law? It deals with how the Supreme Court has gone from interpreting law to making law, and how we can change this. If I could pick any one report for Parliament to act on, then this would be the report out of the many good ones they have done. It is about …

Nov 1, 2024 · Save the Kiwi announced: Kiwi feathers collected from across the US and Europe will soon be winging their way home in a repatriation effort between the United States of America and New Zealand. Why? We have 70,000 Kiwis in NZ, and lots of feathers. I want us to spend money saving Kiwis, not flying a few feathers back to NZ. I could understand if they were something rare or extinct like moa ...

Dirty Politics proposed by “Expert opinion from University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka”? Chis Trotter: Crossing A Line How the Labour Party can navigate an issue on which its supporters are evenly divided Summarised – Labour faces a major challenge over its opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill, which has highlighted divisions within its electoral base. While the recent Hīkoi ...

Kiwiblog Kiwiblog is the personal blog of David Farrar. I set it up in July 2003 after several months of getting addicted to reading other blogs. Prior to blogging, I used to participate in Usenet Internet newsgroups, since 1996. I blog on any issue or thing I …

Sep 3, 2024 · 1 News reports: Multicultural New Zealand (MNZ) president Pancha Narayanan wants a new public holiday to recognise “we are a multicultural society”. On the last Friday of August every year, the Multicultural Councils across the country celebrate a Te Tiriti based National Multicultural Day. The initiative was first launched in 2021 as a way to encourage migrants to make their heritage ...