Smoking Tax Hike Is Shortsighted Smoke And Mirrors – Budget 2016
The increase in price for a packet of cigarettes to around thirty dollars apiece is projected to generate about 425 million dollars worth of taxation revenue.
Author: Curwen Rolinson
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Winston Was Right: Australian Media Backs Peters On Budget & Immigration
Well this is interesting, isn’t it. The Australian media’s managed to join the same dots Winston has in the run-up to today’s Budget – yet which mysteriously appear to elude the general comprehension of our National party.
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Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine: On Internal Changes Within NZ First And What It Might Mean For 2017
To quote Galadriel, the world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.
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The Pieces Align: #BlackGreen2017 And The Green Party’s New Chief Of Staff
The significance of Morris-Travers appointment to the Greens’ Chief of Staff role, then, lies in the fact that she might well find herself one of those crucial inter-party linkages for the setting up of a prospective post-election governing arrangement in late 2017.
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What To Do About The Escalating Spate Of Shopkeeper Standovers…?
There’s something seriously disconcerting going on out there in the Auckland community at the moment. For several months now, barely a week has passed without a story about some lowlife thugs violently doing over a convenience store, liquor shop or dairy, frequently injuring staff in the process.
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Trade Unionists, Police Association Presidents, And Retirees – The New Face Of Drug Law Reform In New Zealand
What we appear to be witnessing gradual and growing movement of support from diverse corners of the electorate, all converging on a singular (if somewhat hazy and ill-specified) goal.
Better drug-laws around cannabis that help rather than harm society.
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The Trouble With Cannabis Is That It Can Induce Psychosis In Some People Who Haven’t Taken It
It is clear now that one of the arguments which will be deployed in the immediate future to oppose sensible reform of our cannabis laws, will be the Government’s previous insensible experimentation with synthetic highs.
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Life After Winston Part Three: Game of Jones
we reveal new information about the back-room political manoeuvring that is going on in Whangarei.
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Youth Employment, Training and Education – NZ First Private Members’ Bill Series Part 3
Darroch’s bill will create an alternative pathway – using the transformative power of the state to establish an alternative for these young people, which will be available for them before that time-critical point of arguable no return in their late teens.
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Unpopular Opinion: The Flag Debate Hasn’t Been A Huge Defeat For Key
There’s an engorged sense of triumphalism on the Left, which insists upon seeing even minor setbacks for the ruling party’s agenda as huge and dramatic victories in the ongoing war against neoliberalism.