by Bruce Cotterill | Jul 24, 2023 | Uncategorised
You may have noticed that the election campaign is under way. The woefully lame slogans have been rolled out, the TV news features politicians walking the streets shaking hands, and our leaders are asking us to forget about their past and instead consider how...
by Bruce Cotterill | Jul 16, 2023 | Uncategorised
We seem to be on a run of elected leaders getting caught out. Whether it’s a secret text message, the unsold shares or an unpaid restaurant bill, the stories eventually come out, usually when the spin doctors can no longer cover up the misbehaving politician’s antics....
by Bruce Cotterill | Jun 27, 2023 | Uncategorised
It’s interesting that the Greens want a discussion about wealth. The announcement of their new “Greens with envy” tax policy certainly started a conversation. For as long as most of us have lived, we’ve been regarded as a prosperous country. But we’re not any more....
by Bruce Cotterill | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorised
Our politicians are in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Again. Hard on the heels of the confidential Cabinet leaks and the sudden defection to a rival political party, we now have a couple of ministers falling foul of Parliament’s rules. Education Minister Jan...
by Bruce Cotterill | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorised
Somebody once said that the trouble with common sense is that it is not particularly common. And you would have to agree that the antics of our various elected officials over the past few years seem to support that view. So what a pleasure it is to see that things are...
by Bruce Cotterill | Mar 27, 2023 | Uncategorised
In a week when we’ve seen overseas banks start to collapse, it seems that New Zealand continues to underperform economically as a result of decisions past and present. The news that the New Zealand economy contracted by a surprisingly high 0.6 per cent in the December...
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