Was that a state of the nation speech or just a badly written National Party political broadcast?
Luxon’s speech this week chose to ignore the current pressing realities of the nation. These include rampant homelessness, chronic unemployment…
Susan St John
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In election year let’s dump the complexity and support a single goal of reducing child poverty
Who has the faintest idea how Working for Families (WFF) works? More importantly, why it fails to achieve either of…
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Where does National really want to take retirement income policy?
National’s retirement income policy ambitions are becoming clearer. In the early 1990s, as part of Ruth Richardson’s clever plan, the…
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3 Wise Men and low level journalism
Kevin Norquay, (Sunday Star Times October 26, 2025), writes It’s an illusion: politicians can’t necessarily fix your groceries or mortgage…
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Treasury might have included ‘ frightening older people to death’ as a handy outcome of their dreamed-up alternatives.
A Long-Term Fiscal Statement (LTFS) is produced every four years and generally can be quite useful. The latest was a…
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Time to talk about progressive actions to stop economy haemorrhaging and to rebuild personal balance sheets
New Zealand is wallowing in the trough of a deep recession with no end in sight. Some say the figures…
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MSD consultation : Empowering families: Increasing certainty and preventing debt in the Working for Families scheme. Yeah right.
As I wrote this submission, I felt my life force slowly ebbing away. I had promised I would never again…
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There is a truckload of trouble coming as the budget looms and the signals are ominous.
The government intends to scrap the Living Wage as a procurement requirement for all government contracts in cleaning, security, and…
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Beware of ACT’s kite flying.
We must be careful with kite flying, as indeed with the whole of Act’s thinking, as what we once dismissed…
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Poor economic policy: history repeats, but a tiny bright light in the Budget Policy Statement 2025
I was proud to take a stand with 14 other economists, led by Ganesh Nana against current fiscal policies that…
