There is a truckload of trouble coming as the budget looms and the signals are ominous.
Beware of ACT’s kite flying.
Poor economic policy: history repeats, but a tiny bright light in the Budget Policy Statement 2025
Bigger deficit for Christmas from the deficit buster. Expect higher ACC levies
If foodbanks were the answer, can underfunding them be the solution?
Ballet dancing is as dangerous as rugby? Or is the complex super structure of levy setting dangerous to much needed 21st century reform...
We do not need ACC levy increases
Just listen to Matthew Hooton and apply market-based technology to solve complex social problems
There are many more past injustices for the state to answer
Time to cut through the weirdness, be bold and simplify Working for Families.
Review of crippling debts to government now delayed to the Never Never.
The rich get richer while child poverty just increases
Will the true debt figure please stand up.
Simplistic views of the causes of inflation don’t do the left any favours
Is Child Poverty really too hard to cure?
The coalition agreement for Working for Families is very weak but tweaks could improve it.
So this is the best we can expect from the Working for Families (WFF)review?
What are we to make of welfare and Working For Families reform now?
When will we ever learn?
All for an extra $20 a week?
A prayer to the god of small things
Let them eat cake