Worker imports as an extension of neo liberal economics
Housing affordability is linked to inflation, cost of living crisis, liveable cites, and a huge number of social and fiscal…
Author: John Minto
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Economic misdirection from Labour and National with long term damage to our economy
Last week National and Labour announced ‘build to rent’ companies can claim interest on loans as tax deductible. This gives…
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Have the Greens become the new Fascists?
The Greens and others are punching down onto local communities and local democracy by allowing private developers to build large…
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Prime Minister plays with red herrings while children sleep in cars
The housing catastrophe (Salvation Army description) for tenants and families on low incomes has been thrown into sharp relief by…
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Radio New Zealand – asking the hard questions
The last 10 days has seen the entire media focus (aside from the ubiquitous concern for the All Black prospects…
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Medal Charts at the “Colonial Games”
Pos Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Australia 42 32 32 106 2 England 31 34 21 86 3 New…
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Class and Race: we are still getting things the wrong way round
It’s impossible to read any media outlet today without an academic report being discussed which points out the disparities in…
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Who’s paying big money for big political favours?
The incompetence of the Serious Fraud Office is breath-taking. Faced with a simple case of electoral donation abuses by the…
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Forget the fans – it’s the sponsors calling the tune on the All Blacks series defeat to Ireland
From All Black fans there is a full range of adjectives being used to describe the series loss to Ireland…
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“Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor”
Across Christchurch last night many bottles of champagne would have been uncorked by business leaders, rugby bosses and right-wing councillors…