Ele Ludemann: Labour hasn’t learned

Just a few months after their election defeat, just days after confirmation that the country is in recession and Labour is promoting the idea of new taxes.

David Farrar: Hooton on shrinking the economy!

Matthew Hooton writes:

Yesterday's shock 0.3 per cent decline in GDP in just the September quarter makes New Zealand the worst-performing economy in the developed world.

Even then, the result was inflated by record net migration, despite yet another massive brain-drain.