NZ Fuel Supply Was Outsourced To The Free Market
New Zealand outsourced fuel security, hollowed out the state, and called it efficiency. Now the free market reality is arriving, and the poor will pay first.

New Zealand outsourced fuel security, hollowed out the state, and called it efficiency. Now the free market reality is arriving, and the poor will pay first.

The Government thought it could kneecap pay equity, rob low-paid women workers, fund tax cuts, and move on. The unions clearly have other ideas.

National wants credit for rents going down. The ugly truth? Rents are softening because Kiwis are leaving, demand is collapsing, and the economy is bleeding.
With the Cult of Hyper Individualism, “taking Personal Responsibility” is the corollary of the “Small State” and reduced government services. The Right demand Personal Responsibility from everyone. (So when an individual ‘fails’, the fault – and responsibility – must lie with him/her, rather than the State’s tilting the playing field toward the rich and the powerful.)
Whilst details are hard to confirm by the very nature of these highly secretive deals – many made informally – the questions arising from these (and other) murky ‘arrangements’ is sufficient to underscore a recent downgrading of our Transparency International Corruption Perception Index;
I see that National Party apparatchiks are up to their usual disingenuous tricks, trying to suggest that Labour was a worse manager of the New Zealand economy than National;