TLDR & TLDL: In this week’s ‘hoon’ (the plural of Kākā) around the political economy, I have a chat with Stuff Political Editor Luke Malpass, including the snap lockdown, the RBNZ's last-minute pivot to holding the OCR and the Govt's fiscal plans.
We talk quite a lot about differences between the lockdowns in News South Wales and New Zealand, the politics of lockdowns and the monetary and fiscal policy responses to the delta outbreak.
Our conversation was recorded just before midday today, so doesn’t include the latest from the 3pm news conference on the delta outbreak.
And here’s the highlights of the week on The Kākā in reverse order.
Some longer reads and listens for the weekend
Morning. On today’s @TheRestHistory, the great @DalrympleWill returns to the show to explore the spectacularly colourful, bloody and tragic story of the FIRST AFGHAN WAR of 1839-42 - and its lessons ...
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Possibly the most ridiculous yet consequential planning regulation in the world? Aucklands view shafts.
"people need to see the top of a random mountain from the non-existent motorway toll booth"
Economic costs? Billions.
Timmy @gallicist
Some fun things
Truly saddened at the passing of the brilliant Sean Lock. His brilliance will be sorely missed. The amount of times I’ve almost wet myself laughing at him is countless.
Sleep well Sean.
I genuinely couldn’t stop laughing for days at this.
The week that was for the week's end