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There was a terrific quote from Joe Hockey, the Australian ambassador to the United States, this week. This, he said, is...
This business of the student debt from last week - getting arrested at the border gets an easy headline. I assume, if I’d...
COMMENT At last we have heard from Harry. Having commanded global headlines for weeks; upended the monarchy and its traditions;...
So what have the big stories of the holidays been ? Well in the answer lies a sort of irony. The big stories are Iran, the...
Winston Peters was right, he said I'd like it and I did. He has seen what the Commerce Commission wouldn't or couldn't....
COMMENT Nineteen billion dollars of debt is an eye watering amount of money. It blows net core Crown debt to over 21 percent...
COMMENT Whether Health Minister David Clark was misquoted or not, yet again in an area of extraordinary expense and no shortage...
I wonder if Glen Rice Jr is an example of why our Government is so hopelessly off track in justice and its seemingly never-ending...
Part of what productivity is is focusing on the stuff that’s effective and matters. I say this because we have struggled...
I wrote in the Herald several months ago about the Auckland Port and its potential to be moved. It was after the first of...
COMMENT Woe and misery, I am afraid, in the housing market. As market research firm Ipsos tells us, 62 per cent of those...
Not just the housing market is back. Farming is valuable as well, and there seems no shortage of foreigners wanting a piece...
COMMENT I think most people would broadly agree that banning foreign money going to candidates and parties during elections...
COMMENT I think we can fairly, safely say that whatever goodwill was left between the gun owners, the gun clubs, the gun...
Blame most often is a wasted game, especially around unresolved issues. And climate change is surely one of the greatest...
I think we can be somewhat grateful to Canada for legalising cannabis a good year or so ahead of us. They’re making a complete...
COMMENT I am not sure why, but I had assumed the Reserve Bank would move on LVRs yesterday. The same way I assumed they...
There is a very good reason National are going down the law and order path, votes. It's rich territory, it's always been...
One of the more liberating things I did a couple of years ago was cancel a lot of my insurance. Not the sensible stuff,...
COMMENT It was with dismay I watched on Sunday night not just a bunch of crooks getting given their vote back, but almost...
The Winston twitter attack on Friday was of course a smart move. Despite all the commentary around his foundation issues...
COMMENT One of the early examples of theory vs reality that I distinctly remember, was the debate that broke out when the...
One of the more interesting things about the government's gun buy-back is whether talk will turn to reality. There is allegedly...
I suppose you could include Jami Lee Ross in all of this. It was his once job as the National Party bag man that landed him...
