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Prime Minister John Key is delighted after delivering his speech yesterday. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Wait patiently for three months for the real oil in the Budget before passing judgment on the Government's latest and seemingly insipid prescription for shifting New Zealand's sluggish-performing economy into the growth fast-lane. That is the message from Government insiders. Only then, they say, will the exact extent of sweeping tax cuts planned… More
4:00AM Wednesday February 10, 2010
John Key deserves an A- for intent. But a mere D for the dreadful prime ministerial statement that buried a coherent economic agenda in a mass of confusion. Key would have been scratching his head over why his 23-page statement to Parliament was almost… More
4:00AM Wednesday February 10, 2010
In his statement to the opening of Parliament yesterday, John Key spoke of his intention to achieve a "step-change" in overall economic performance. With his popularity riding high in this, a non-election year, and with the country emerging from a… More
4:00AM Wednesday February 10, 2010
The Crusaders will win the final Super 14 - which opens on Friday - closing out another chapter for this rickety competition in the style their fans are accustomed to. I can't see them being headed despite a few obvious weaknesses that pale to relative… More
4:00AM Wednesday February 10, 2010
Justice Minister Simon Power has rushed to appease the law and order brigade, by calling for a report re-examining knife crime laws. This follows quickly on the heels of the slaying of an Auckland taxi driver, and comments from Justice Raynor Asher… More
4:00AM Wednesday February 10, 2010
Your columnist Brian Rudman uses unnecessarily confrontational language when describing the proposal for the volcanic cones. He seems to believe the European owners who gifted the cones for the use of the public would object to a change from the current… More
4:00AM Wednesday February 10, 2010
Jesse reckons someone in Herne Bay is unhappy about people not removing their emptied bins promptly. "This was taken about 6pm on the day of collection - bit tough if you work late," he says. * * * Disastrous dates: 1 Missing 30cm: "Al"… More
2:00PM Tuesday February 09, 2010
John Key has just sent Generations X and Y a clear message: Leave the country now. He may as well have directed those younger taxpayers who are stupid/poor/unlucky enough not to own property to the websites for AirNZ, PacificBlue and Jetstar and… More
2:00PM Tuesday February 09, 2010
Tax, the prime minister proclaims, is a powerful lever for the Government to boost the economy's performance. It's a pity then that instead of grasping that lever he is proposing to just crook his little finger around it. He endorses the tax working… More
2:00PM Tuesday February 09, 2010
John Key's promised quick march towards economic nirvana still looks like progressing at little more than a crawl. Those expecting something special in the Government's new economic plan which will prompt the "step change" in the pace of economic… More
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