The ‘For Sale’ signs are up again
It seems more than a little coincidental that the National/ACT/Maori Party government have started talking about privatisation in the same week that they announced changes to the Overseas Investment...
View ArticleA bit of a stretch
I sat through all of the hearings on Gerry Brownlee’s Electricity Industry Bill. A lot of submitters questioned his plan to take Tekapo A and B power stations off Meridian Energy and give them to...
View ArticleElectricity Industry Bill
Yesterday the National/ACT government pushed through the Electricity Industry Bill. It will do nothing to deal with rising power prices, fails to address issues around sustainability, and despite the...
View ArticleKiwis want to own our future
Tonight TV3 revealed the results of a poll that asked New Zealanders about substantive issues and the results were revealing. New Zealanders overwhelmingly prefer the introduction of a capital gains...
View ArticleThen and now: Key on SOE sales
John Key really doesn’t enjoy being reminded of the promises he made to New Zealanders before the election. It doesn’t matter whether it was the 2008 election or the 2011 election, he clearly doesn’t...
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