The main reason people give for voting National is to keep Labour, who they see as so much worse, out of power. This reasoning doesn’t work anymore. Two recent actions by National emphasize why this is so. 1) Changes to the Resource Management Act that promote separatism. 2) The Harmful Digital Communications Act being used…
The NZ National party lost the battle of ideas decades ago. Its political strategy today is mostly a series of slow steady surrenders, one after the other after the other, to progressive ideology. Currently, the Nationals are all a tizz over the prospect of current Labour party leader Andrew Little losing his defamation case, being…
Nick Smith is proud of increases in building consents. New building consent figures released today by Statistics New Zealand confirm the strong progress being made in increasing housing supply, particularly in Auckland and Christchurch, Building and Housing Minister Dr Nick Smith says. “These positive signs follow a general pattern of strong growth that has continued…
The Government is to provide $776,000 from the Waste Minimisation Fund for a new Marlborough waste sorting facility, Environment Minister Dr Nick Smith announced today during a visit to the Marlborough District Council’s Resource Recovery Centre in Blenheim with Kaikōura MP Stuart Smith. “This grant is about supporting innovation in waste management to enable the…
Its a bureaucrats heaven. Just imagine the frenzy of hiring. The funding that will be necessary. With maybe a new “fee” to cover it. The strutting clip board wielding brigade of govt inspectors that will have unlimited access to your houses. Just imagine their pleasure in dolling out a blue ticket here, a white ticket…
Overseas radio advertisements for NZ property are claiming that foreign purchasers can count on collecting half the weekly wages (about $500) off renters. The ads are being run in Singapore, China and Malaysia. Singapore’s 90.5 Gold radio station plays the ad, asking listeners: “How would you like the people in New Zealand to give you…
A Communist and a racist had an idea- The Te Mana o te Wai Fund was announced as part of Budget 2014 in partnership with the Māori Party, and provides $5 million over two years. It will support restoration initiatives such as riparian planting, projects to reduce nitrate levels, and community-run water restoration efforts for…
Recent announcements from Steven Joyce re government grants to the Forestry Sector to enable them to carry out research annoyed me because such grants are unnecessary, and the article referenced below gives a score of good reasons why. Here are the first two- First, there is little reason to invest your own money when you…
