National introduced a riveting new initiative yesterday – a compensation scheme for victims. The way it works is that every criminal pays $50 to the victim of his or her crime. National claims this will generate $5 million of revenue. All I can see is that each victim will get $50, less the cost of […]
For two weeks in a row the Sunday program has played only one local item out of the three they usually put to air. That equates to about 12 minutes of a commercial hour on TV. I’ve been incensed about this for some time, given that Sunday received the lions share of funding from NZ […]
I got such a hard time for my John Key comments by Johnny-Johnny at www.umami.co.nz that I promised him I’d try and find a more balanced argument to ‘reflect’ the other side. John kindly pointed out to me an NZ Herald article where Helen Clark appeared to be confused about whether mortgage rates were going […]
John Key is not going to be able to use the “New Zealanders flee to Australia in record numbers” line for much longer as a criticism of the New Zealand economy, and by inference using it to attack Labour. The economic outlook for the Aussies is as bad there as it is here. According to […]
Duncan Garner on TV3 has been exposing John Key’s indecisiveness, not that John Key needs help from anyone else in this. John Key is equivocal – he would repeal Helen Clarks attempt to stymie the Canadian Pension Fund 40% takeover offer, at the same time as saying that he (and National) would keep strategic assets […]
I watched a very strident Mark Sainsbury on Close Up tonight defending himself and his programme over the giving of petrol vouchers and motel accommodation to Tame Iti and his extended family. Sainsbury got hot under the collar about it – in fact I’ve never seen him so defensive, or willing to do battle. At […]