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Showing posts with label Owen Jennings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Owen Jennings. Show all posts
Sunday, September 6, 2026

Owen Jennings: The Stark Choice – Country before Party

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There has never been such a stark choice. Yeah, I know we said that last election and the one before that, but the country has never had th...
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Thursday, August 6, 2026

Owen Jennings: Tax is a means to an end, not an end in itself

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Tax is likely to be the big policy divide in this coming election. No matter how you put the parties together, it seems almost certain that ...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Owen Jennings: FENZ – friends or fiends?

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Our neighbours lost their home to a fire. There was no fire brigade in our small district. It was devastating and took a huge emotional tol...
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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Owen Jennings: Giovani is Unhappy

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Giovani Riveri makes ‘healthy’ sandwiches and ‘coffee to die for’ in the centre of New York, right under the tallest skyscrapers. Giovani i...
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Monday, April 27, 2026

Guest Post: The Numbers do not Lie

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A guest post from Owen Jennings on Kiwiblog : Everyone seems to have an opinion on Christopher Luxon’s future. Why not? He is Prime Minst...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Owen Jennings: Cop30 Ironies

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France’s President Macron led the charge for putting taxes on aircraft flights at Cop30 in Belem, Brazil. Aircraft are “killing the planet”...
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Friday, October 24, 2025

Owen Jennings: A new angle on an old topic

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Do you remember the bad old days, flying out of Los Angeles and suddenly passing through that brown gunge ceiling, looking back and thinking...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Owen Jennings: When Bias becomes a Dangerous Absurdity.

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Editors who invite reader’s contributions usually make it clear they reserve the right to not publish any particular letter and normally the...
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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Owen Jennings: Driving a stake through the steak

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You are in your favourite restaurant. You have narrowed down the choices to two fillet steaks. They are both grassfed from New Zealand. O...
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Saturday, May 3, 2025

Owen Jennings: Stop, Look, Listen

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There seems to exist in our society a phenomena that might be deemed “collective madness”. It occurs when an apparent majority embrace a par...
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Friday, January 31, 2025

Owen Jennings: How's Your Amygdala Working?

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I learnt a new word today. Amygdala n. an area of your brain responsible for emotional processing, especially fear and anxiety. It also conn...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Owen Jennings: Where is the partnership?

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Botanists are usually quite particular people. They have an eye for detail. Those that record findings for prestigious bodies like Kew Garde...
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Saturday, December 14, 2024

Owen Jennings: Banks Flout their Social Contract

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For a civil society to work smoothly and effectively certain ‘social contracts’ need to have broad acceptance and be honoured by all individ...
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Sunday, September 22, 2024

Owen Jennings: Now Here’s a Funny Thing

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Airlines have trees to offset their CO2 Greenhouse Gas emissions. That’s recognised and acceptable. More than that it is encouraged and su...
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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Owen Jennings: Now Here’s a Funny Thing.

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Airlines have trees to offset their CO2 Greenhouse Gas emissions. That’s recognised and acceptable. More than that it is encouraged and su...
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Sunday, May 5, 2024

Owen Jennings: Country Update From Klaus

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Memo to: Executive Council From: Klaus Date: May 2024 Subject: Country Update – New Zealand G...
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Saturday, May 4, 2024

Owen Jennings: Radio Spectra and Methane

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I am old enough to remember getting out of bed at 3.00am on cold mornings to listen to the radio broadcast by Winston McCarthy of the All Bl...
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Saturday, February 10, 2024

Owen Jennings: Fairness – A Requirement of Taxation

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“Dear sir, your tax bill this year is $15,000. Please pay immediately. Kind regards IRD” . Imagine getting that demand, out of the blue. O...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Owen Jennings: The mind of James Busby

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It is worth stopping and thinking about the events around the 6th of February 1840. James Busby, a Scotsman was thinking about his 38th bir...
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Monday, January 8, 2024

Owen Jennings: Catastrophic Gullibility

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Climate change is big business in New Zealand. Government and local authorities now have a small army of people employed in the climate cha...
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