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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Mike Butler: Poverty, wealth, and the election

Dirty politics from the Left during the current New Zealand general election campaign obscures policy at a time when the issue of wealth ...

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Frank Newman: CGT winners and losers

This week I conclude the discussion about Capital Gains Tax (CGT). A number of countries have capital gains taxes as part of their reve...

Karl du Fresne: If National loses, it knows where the blame lies

Everything about the Dirty Politics affair is reprehensible. Let’s start with Cameron Slater. I fully understood the angry reaction to ...

Reuben Chapple: No English language Treaty of Waitangi

Several weeks after the Treaty of Waitangi was first signed in Northland, the Crown dispatched Captain William Cornwallis Symonds to see...

Brian Gaynor: Greying of workforce good for economy

The New Zealand workforce has changed dramatically over the past 24 years. In mid-1990 our workforce was young and energetic with...

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Frank Newman: Capital Gains Tax details explained

Although the media's focus of the general election has been on dirty politics, there are some critical policy issues defining the pa...

Mike Butler: Nursing a grudge Tuhoe style

A claim that Crown soldiers threw Tuhoe children into the air and impaled them on bayonets, reported yesterday, offers a glimpse of how T...

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Karl du Fresne: I know what Shakespeare would have said

Let me get this straight. Cameron Slater’s Whale Oil site is hacked in retaliation for a post that upset a lot of people and as a resul...

Reuben Chapple: Illegal Immigration

Socialists are not nationalists, they’re internationalists. And they know that the nation state operates as a prophylactic against the ...

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Frank Newman: Revitalising the CBD

Central Business Districts (CBDs) are facing the challenges of change. People are changing the way they go about their lives and in part...

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Viv Forbes from Australia: Blowing Our Dollars in the Wind.

Wind energy produces costly, intermittent, unpredictable electricity. But Government subsidies and mandates have encouraged a massive...

Matt Ridley from the UK: This epidemic is not under control

As you may know by now, I am a serial debunker of alarm and it usually serves me in good stead. On the threat posed by diseases, I’ve b...

Karl du Fresne: Is this the most bizarre campaign ever?

This election is shaping up to be the strangest in my lifetime. There’s a cacophony of minor parties scrambling for attention and a fr...

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Matt Ridley from the UK: Priorities and goals for aid

In September next year, the United Nations plans to choose a list of development goals for the world to meet by the year 2030. What asp...

Viv Forbes from Australia: Water rules the Weather - Carbon Dioxide is a Climate Pygmy

Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is blamed for every weather emergency, but as a weather maker, water is far more important. ...

Frank Newman: Leadership

Last Thursday TV One’s Seven Sharp had an interesting segment about unemployment, or more accurately the way it is being confronted in B...

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Mike Butler: $80m for river woes, $30m for ?

Some tribes associated with the Wanganui River will receive more than $80-million to settle their river claims while a further $30-millio...

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Barend Vlaardingerbroek: The Kings and Chiefs of Old Calabar and Old NZ

Treaties have been around for a very long time. There’s a boundary treaty inscribed on stone between the city-states of Lagash and Umma ...

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Karl du Fresne: What I could do with a machine gun

I am aware that what I am about to write will result in me being branded a cantankerous misanthrope, and possibly even a bit mad. What ...

Mike Butler: Jamie Whyte and treaty settlements

Act Party leader Jamie Whyte is only partly correct to say that the reparations made to iwi by the Waitangi Tribunal are recognition of p...

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