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by Andy Loader
December 28, 2022
Fuel Security:

12th August 2022 Memo to Jacinda Welcome to the new normal minus the Marsden Point oil refinery. We now have the first evidence of how bad it can get for…

December 28, 2022
Te Reo the demise

OPINION: To mark the beginning of Māori Language Week, veteran journalist Janet Wilson began a Listener magazine story: “It’s the language that refuses to die, despite efforts across generations to…

December 28, 2022
Government

“an artfully crafted mirage” The massive rise in bureaucrats since 2017. “On 30 June 2017, close to the end of the nine years of the Key-English Government, people employed in…

December 28, 2022
Answer to an Opinion Piece

Morgan Godfery is a senior lecturer in the department of marketing at the University of Otago. He has a background in journalism and public policy, including as a parliamentary staffer…

December 28, 2022
Infrastructure maintenance

In 2017 Pakistan had flooding that was as bad as it is now, so why didn’t the Pakistan government take action back then to dredge its rivers and to stop…

December 28, 2022
Mental Health –Stress Levels

Senior officials responsible for overhauling the mental health system have told the Herald they’re committed to building a comprehensive national crisis-response service after growing concerns about the lack of support for people…

December 28, 2022
How bad can it get?

In the 1 NEWS Kantar Public Poll released on 8th August 2022 The bad news got worse for Labour with Jacinda Ardern’s ranking as preferred Prime Minister down 3 points…

December 28, 2022
Government is not the divine source of ‘truth’

 ‘Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth,’ declared New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, in a chilling speech related to Covid health advice. The 2020 clip…

July 27, 2022
A Divided society in decline.

New Zealand’s transformation from a country that was doing well by world standards, to a deeply divided society that is in decline. We were told back in 2017, by Jacinda…

July 25, 2022
Failing to Govern:

The current Labour government is a government that doesn’t know how to govern.   Today on the TV3 morning show we heard the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talking about the…