I’m not a big fan of Ecan. However, there are essential environmental responsibilities which Regional Councils perform so to talk about disbanding them with a sweep of the hand is just irresponsible. Instructing local mayors to come up with a solution is like asking pigs to start believing abattoirs … [Read more...]
Hardship and Hope: how poverty is designed in Aotearoa
This Thursday 30 october at 6pmAldersgate 309 Durham St North Join author Rebecca Macfie, youth advocate Moana Cole and Christchurch Methodist Mission Executive Director Jill Hawkey in discussion about the systems holding people in hardship, and insights from the front lines of community … [Read more...]
Craig Rennie from CTU on Budget
If you work in the sectors below here are your cuts buried in this year’s budget: You see only cuts at this Budget. But some changes in the Budget are harder to justify than others. … [Read more...]
Garry on the 2025 Budget
Early in my life I worked as the accountant at what is now called Ara. One year, as I attempted to balance the budget of a rapidly growing institution with expanding financial demands, I cut the budget of the library. One of the Tuesday club regular attendees will recall this event. The librarian … [Read more...]
An Open Letter from Bernard Hickey
Dear New Zealanders, your victory is pyrrhic’ Dear home-owning older voter, You have successfully blocked the taxation of capital gains on leveraged residential land values for nearly 15 years and now both major political parties are so afraid of you doing it again they won’t even talk about … [Read more...]
What is the role of Ethics, private and public – in a decent society
This book made me think hard about the way our current government operates. The list of projects on the fast-track list smells very fishy. Dead fishy. Next Tuesday Club notes I will look carefully at local projects and how they happened and their costly ramifications for us as local ratepayers. I … [Read more...]
The invisible hand of the “market”
Here’s a photo of the commercial barge which became stranded on Carters Beach last week. I wonder how much the State spent extracting it. In the Press it was reported: Former harbourmaster David Barnes said the barge was underpowered and had insufficient propulsion. He said the Westport bar … [Read more...]
I’ve paid my ZOOM bill and I’m wondering why there was no GST…
Because of my technical incompetence I have failed to produce a copy of my recent bill for my Zoom account to show you all. However, here’s a copy of the account payment: Zoom.Us 888-799-9666 Www.Zoom.Us Ca $272.05US. I wrote across the invoice I kept for my records “No GST – bastards”. I … [Read more...]
Why did the coalition Government got rid of the Productivity Commission?
It’s because the Commission Chair Dr Ganesh Nana wrote things like this: Our business models continue to focus on volume, rather than value and again that’s a misunderstanding of productivity – increased revenue is not productivity. Revenue can be generated by, just as we have done, … [Read more...]
At last there are seriously good articles on how neo-liberalism is failing us badly
I recall in the 1980’s, when I chaired a Labour Party electorate committee, moving out of the chair to argue with our local MP on how wrong neo-liberalism was, as its impacts I felt were dreadful. I was working with communities all over the South Island which were being decimated by this newly found … [Read more...]
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