Anthony Willy: Love’s Labour’s Lost (with apologies to the Bard)

The NZCPR has over the term of the last government extensively documented the mischief and incompetence that marked its passage and now its passing. The unprecedented attack on our institutions has been exposed for what we now see it to be; a naked attempt to destabilise our society and its institutions and supplant them with the trappings of an authoritarian state fashioned around the aspirations of a tiny minority of those claiming Maori entitlement. 

Anthony Willy: The commoners

To the self-anointed  theorists that is those with an academic qualification in something of no practical use and generally lacking in life experience, the commoners are the deplorables. They cause the lips to curl in the councils of theorists, and the rent seekers sitting around the campfires of the tribalists. This group comprises those who are consumed with theories which balloon into crusades: The current poster children of group are global warming, the raucous denial that sexuality is fixed at birth, co governance and that there are different types of democracy. 

Leighton Smith Podcast: Anthony Willy on Marxism in Jacinda Ardern's New Zealand

Leighton Smith Podcast Episode 142 
February 9, 2022 • 81 min

On this week's podcast: Marxism could not happen here... could it? After decades on the bench, covering four different courts, retired Judge Anthony Willy expresses his concern for the future of democracy in New Zealand. 

Anthony Willy and Anthony De Reeper: A Capital Gains Tax Yes or No

First published 9 September  2014 
  
Taxation is at the heart of the establishment and maintenance of civil society.  The difficulty is in knowing how much to extract from the wealth producing members of society.

Nothing much has changed since the seventeenth century when Jean-Baptiste Colbert the Controller General of Finances to Louis XIV’S remarked that “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.” 

Anthony Willy: Straws in the wind

Readers will be well familiar with the blame mentality on which some Maori people thrive and the depressing slide into racial separatism associated with it which has been gaining momentum over the past few years; connived at by the Wellington bureaucracy and encouraged by The Waitangi Tribunal and a series of pronouncements from our highest Court many of which are unnecessary to the issue before them and seem to be made on the basis of what some of the Judges would have decided if the facts had been other than those before the court. 

Maori lobby interests such as the Iwi Leaders Group, a self-appointed collection of individuals handsomely funded out of the public purse by way of past treaty settlements and purporting to speak on behalf of all people of Maori descent (but do not) have become increasingly bold in their demands.