Grant Duncan writes: Te Pāti Māori have a policy to “establish a Māori Parliament”. According to the NZ Election Study 2020, however, the proposal for a Māori upper house of parliament is only supported by a minority of Māori, let alone others.* This made me look up the data from the 2020 NZES. Net support for a […]
Indigenous government
Indigenous government
11 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, racial discrimination
JOHN RAINE: Why Engineering Cannot be Decolonised
10 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Concordia University is Decolonising Early 2024, Lawrence Krauss reported [1] that Concordia University in Canada is in the process of decolonising and indigenising its curricula, including Engineering. He noted that this will put Concordia on the Map, but not in a positive way. The new university plan at Concordia is drawing on “principles embodied in…
JOHN RAINE: Why Engineering Cannot be Decolonised
Free Speech Union Is Taking Hutt City Council And It’s CEO To The High Court
09 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
This email from Stephen Franks explains why!!!!! Note: I have included all of the email, including the request for any financial support readers may be inclined to give to aid the FSU in this obviously expensive court case. Hi. Some fights take a little longer than others. While the FSU team has been confronting the NZ Police, professional bodies, Immigration […]
Free Speech Union Is Taking Hutt City Council And It’s CEO To The High Court
OLIVIA PIERSON: New Zealand – Unity or Apartheid?
09 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
The steady stream of revisionist gibberish coming out of Māori Party rhetoric these days is eye-watering. They never miss an opportunity to bamboozle ordinary folks with silly word salads, half of which are spoken in a tongue only 4% of New Zealanders can even understand. Take this for example: In a recent interview with Jack…
OLIVIA PIERSON: New Zealand – Unity or Apartheid?
Reality Forces Reason into Power Choices
09 Dec 2024 2 Comments
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - USA Tags: nuclear energy, solar power, wind power
Amazon executives realized their very profitable data centers would fail if they kept posturing with renewable energy.
Reality Forces Reason into Power Choices
NZ Nursing Council Raises A Middle Finger To Health Minister Shane Reti And The Coalition Government.
08 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
What follows are Scope of Practice requirements for Enrolled and Registered Nurses from 25 January 2025. There are some small differences in requirements but the points I am highlighting are the same and what follows is for Enrolled Nurses. Scope of Practice Enrolled Nurses Enrolled nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand reflect knowledge, concepts and worldviews of both tangata whenua and tangata […]
NZ Nursing Council Raises A Middle Finger To Health Minister Shane Reti And The Coalition Government.
Reality Collides: Constant Blackout Threat Spells Doom For Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
07 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
A run of calm nights (particularly during very hot or very cold weather) reveals the utter pointlessness of intermittent wind and solar. And, so it is in the land Downunder. Australia’s hard Green-Left Federal government is doing its best to stare down reality, as its grand wind and solar ‘transition’ unravels. The so-called energy ‘policy’ […]
Reality Collides: Constant Blackout Threat Spells Doom For Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
The Naughty List: Former Obama Aides and Liberal Influencers Sell Antifa Line of Holiday Gifts
07 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, law and order
It appears no liberal Christmas is complete without the ultimate stocking stuffer: an actual stocking to wear over your face while rioting. While not yet selling face coverings for anonymous violence, Crooked Media, co-founded by former Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, is reportedly selling a line of Antifa items for liberals […]
The Naughty List: Former Obama Aides and Liberal Influencers Sell Antifa Line of Holiday Gifts
Take Two Puberty Blockers and Call Me in the Morning? Justice Sotomayor Under Fire For Aspirin Analogy in Oral Argument
06 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is under fire today for seemingly dismissing medical concerns over the risks of puberty blockers and gender surgeries for minors with a comparison to taking Aspirin. In the oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti, Sotomayor pointed out that there are risks to any medical procedure or drug. However, the […]
Take Two Puberty Blockers and Call Me in the Morning? Justice Sotomayor Under Fire For Aspirin Analogy in Oral Argument
Wind and Solar Can’t Support the Grid
06 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) In October of 2025, the isolated small city of Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia with a 36 MW load (including the large nearby mines) could not be reliably served by 200 MW of wind, a 53 MW solar array, significant residential solar, and a large 50 MW battery […]
Wind and Solar Can’t Support the Grid
The Kiwirail black hole
06 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle
Bronwyn Howell writes: KiwiRail is a state-owned enterprise, and so by law its principal objective is “to operate as a successful business”.1 Success in the business world means that you provide something that your customers are willing to pay for, at a price for that exceeds your cost of production, leaving something to reward your owners/investors…
The Kiwirail black hole
Royal Covid Commission report says “NZ’s vaccination rollout was slightly slower to get started than in some other countries”. And Pigs Fly.
06 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of pandemics
The Australian Commonwealth Government COVID-19 Response Inquiry slammed that country’s late “stroll-out” of the vaccine. It meant politicians viewed lock-downs as their only tool of control. According to the Sydney Morning Herald some of “the Inquiry’s most specific criticism was around the delayed vaccine rollout ahead of the Omicron variant which swept through country at…
Royal Covid Commission report says “NZ’s vaccination rollout was slightly slower to get started than in some other countries”. And Pigs Fly.
Snobbery
06 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: nanny state
Stuff reports: Moral and health-related objections to fast food should not be considered in a hearing for a proposed Wānaka McDonald’s, the company claims. Neither was the perception of McDonald’s as a large corporate that should not be allowed to exist, legal representative Jeremy Brabant said at the resource consent hearing which opened on Monday.…
Snobbery
Are protection orders worth anything?
05 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
The Spinoff has an article by Zeni Gibson which details eight years of harassment by a man called Greg. Her suffering has been appalling, and hey tormenter has made a mockery of the law that should be protecting her. I can’t even summarise all the multiple failings, but it sadly doesn’t surprise me. There have…
Are protection orders worth anything?
Misuse of land use planning
05 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: nanny state, zoning
If you thought McDonald’s was some kind of public health hazard, using processes under the Resource Management Act to try to block one from opening in Wanaka would be among the stupidest possible ways of dealing with it. The country already has food safety regulations. If you thought that (in fact delicious and fine) McDonald’s food…
Misuse of land use planning
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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