The business media is all in an excited state over the fact that the headline growth rate for the New Zealand economy is going to around 3.5% for the year ending June. What they don’t tell you is that because of the artificial boost to the population as a result of the government opening the taps for new migrants the actual annual per capita growth rate is only 0.6%.
In response to my recent article on US imperial wars some people objected to my characterisation of the US empire.
January next year will mark 10 years since the suicide of our son Bruno, who was never hospitalised for his depression, but which left us with may questions about why young people are patronised by the state rather than empowered to fight suicide among their peers.
The latest TVNZ poll is a stark reminder to those who oppose this Government that 2017 will be a hard fight.
The UN Security Council has held its fourth straw poll on the candidates for UN Secretary-General. Helen Clark is pleased…
Beneficiaries are treated little better than cattle by a large number of burnt out frontline WINZ Staff, and adding to that underfunded hopelessness are counter-productive policies driven by ideology and not empirical evidence.
In the last six years, there have been on average 166,000 temporary work visas issued each year. These consist of people on working holidays, seasonal workers, essential skills workers and migrant family members.
Every time Key is challenged on poverty or inequality, his default position seems to be to blame it on drugs.
It was fascinating watching the media response and the social media response at the same time. The mainstream media ran huge headlines for the supposed sexts and juicy details, yet there were no similar headlines when it turned out that Williams hadn’t actually seen this sext message.
Unfortunately the dildo collection of a rich woman on Real Housewives of Auckland can generate more media attention than a Government’s continuos manipulations.