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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Mike Butler: Taupo tribe loses $29m

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“Bad investments and bailouts” have wiped almost half the value off Taupo tribe Tuwharetoa’s $66-million share of the “Treelord’s” treaty...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Barend Vlaardingerbroek: UE 2014 – A Plug for Meritocracy

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The meritocratic ideal is a prominent aspect of the mindset of a ‘conservative liberal’ like yours truly. Essentially this means that w...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Lindsay Mitchell: CPAG back in court - again

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The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is about to return to court for the third time arguing that the In Work Tax Credit should go to be...
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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Frank Newman: RMA a failure

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The Resource management Act is about to get another makeover, the 21 st since the legislation became law in 1991. The new changes are t...
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Ron Smith: Cover-ups and scandals - another Watergate?

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If I were to tell you about a state that was monitoring the telephones and emails of journalists and their families, and administrativel...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Matt Ridley: Too virulent to spread

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Here we go again. A new bird-flu virus in China, the H7N9 strain, is spreading alarm. It has infected about 130 people and killed more...
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Phil McDermott: The Unravelling of the Auckland Plan

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Getting the housing equation wrong The failure of the Auckland Plan to reflect the simple aspirations of Aucklanders for home ownership...
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Stephen Franks: FTAs inevitable for loan-dependent NZ, but expect one way enforcement

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I've just listened to Nathan Guy talking down concern about Chinese blocking of meat imports on Radio Live Drive, before Andrew Patt...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Frank Newman: Budget 2013

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This years Budget has good news, but not for those who are expecting a handout. The good news is the government’s books are on track to re...
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Lindsay Mitchell: 'Feed the kids' bill starts with a lie

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Hone Harawira's bill, Education (Breakfast and Lunch Programmes in School) Amendment Bill, starts with a lie. From the  Explanatory ...
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Eric Crampton: Breakfast

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A few months ago,  Social Service Providers Aotearoa  asked me to review the literature on school breakfast programmes and provide an as...
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Karl du Fresne: The elimination of poverty will just have to wait

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The team of Key and English may go down as one of the more effective political partnerships of modern times. John Key is the schmoozer, t...
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Richard Epstein: The Way Forward in Bangladesh

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Its hard-working people have suffered far too long under the weight of its bankrupt public institutions. The death toll from the r...
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Karl du Fresne: Confessions of a dinosaur

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My wife reckons that if I had been alive in 1893, I probably would have opposed women getting the vote. Ouch. That’s a bit harsh. I ...
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Reuben Chapple: Gross Impudence

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“In the Kingdom of the Blind, the one-eyed man is King. And he that does not know his own history is at the mercy of every lying windbag...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Mike Butler: State houses checked for WOF

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A scheme to impose warrants of fitness on residential rentals is well under way with Housing New Zealand going through state-owned rental...
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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Karl du Fresne: Debasing Debate

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Once again, Radio New Zealand has debased the word “debate”. It’s currently broadcasting what it calls a series of “debates” on the ...
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Bryan Leyland: Auckland will be liveable only if it is affordable

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The Auckland plan ignores the potential for modern technology to solve our transport and other problems and, instead, pushes expensive...
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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Ron Smith: Losers

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For some while now it has been evident that President Obama is reluctant to talk about ‘terrorism’ and, still less, about ‘Islamic terro...
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Richard Epstein: In Praise of Income Inequality

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You cannot make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. One month into the second term of the Obama administration, the econom...
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