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Bernard’s Pick ‘n’ Mix for Tues, Dec 24
Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes for Monday, December 23
Bernard’s last Saturday Soliloquy for 2024
Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes for Saturday, December 21
Austerity thumps GDP most since 1991
The Hoon around the year to December 20, 2024
MSD rejecting 220 pleas for food grants each day
Blaming Treasury & Labour, Willis looks for even more Austerity
Willis' austerity strategy just isn't working
When austerity worsens public debt & cuts GDP
Coalition forced to back down on tolling Manawatu Gorge replacement
Govt cancels Tauranga housing expansion
The Hoon around the week to December 13
Ferries delayed again, then handed to Peters, who hits out at Seymour
When haste makes waste & is risky, dangerous & mean
Govt eyes 'PPP-lite' for health centres
Simeon Brown alienates another National electorate
My Saturday Soliloquy for Dec 7
TKP 26/50 solutions: A new home without a power bill
An experiment and our Christmas offer to subscribe to The Kākā
The Hoon around the week to December 6
A housing market with bits tacked on doesn’t need many (if any) pure scientists
'The cuts will continue until the economy improves'
Govt says borrowing to build now last resort
Labour leaning back towards Capital Gains Tax
'Why we've cut the OCR so much since August'
The Hoon around the week to November 29
RBNZ loosening as the Govt is tightening
Bishop cautious on guaranteeing social housing bonds
'Guarantee us and we'll build thousands of social homes'
PM 'constructively dissatisfied' with himself
The Hoon around the week to November 22
Treasury warns deeper recession worsening Budget deficit
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'These budget cuts are counter-productive and make no sense'
Economists call on PM to suspend budget cuts for the sake of the economy
27% of kids going hungry, up from 21% in a year
Why Govt & NZ Inc should boycott & regulate Facebook
Shipley warns Seymour’s bill is ‘inviting civil war’
Auckland chafing at Bishop’s housing intensification orders
The Hoon around the week to November 15
Trump's return to White House brings the climate's 'find out' phase closer
An opportunity for a pro-growth tax switch
Victims of abuse want Una Jagose to go
The 30/30 fiscal rule that rules us all
Dawn Chorus for Monday, November 11
Dawn Chorus for weekend of Nov 9/10
The Hoon around the week to November 8
What Donald Trump's second Presidency means for us financially
How our housing market distorts education too
National risks being eaten alive by NZ First & ACT
Budget cuts penny wise & pound foolish
The Hoon around the week to November 1
'Get ready for more landlord buying'
Toxic positivity and toxicity in the kitchen
A deliberate and unnecessary crash landing
Will banks & insurers back self-consented homes?
'Happy to watch your grandkids grow up in Australia via WhatsApp?'
After years of cover ups and hacks, the truth on gas is out
Brown orders motorway building to start before business case done
The Hoon around the week to October 25
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Health NZ eyed charging for ED visits
What's driving the exodus of workers to Australia
DTIs set to restrain housing-debt-led economic rebound
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Funds cut for social housing with 3 days notice
Fast-tracking a much bigger prison
Bishop goes for growth, but leaves finance hand brake on
Deep-dive: What does an ageing population mean for Aotearoa?
Extreme weather events coming for us all
The Hoon around the week to October 4
Govt to underwrite new private house-building
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Luxon escapes having to pay $70,000 in ‘brightline’ capital gains taxes
‘I don't know what the point of the questioning is.’
One in four march against Govt in Dunedin
The Hoon around the week to Sept 27
Could a doubling of Co2 trigger 8° of warming?
Treasury warns of unprecedented cuts in real spending per capita to achieve surplus
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An attack 'unbecoming of a leader'
ANZ CEO says 'it's time' for a Capital Gains Tax
ACCC accuses Woolworths of misleading pricing
Fixing child poverty would cost <1% of GDP
Kaka project: What could a revamped Entrust do with/for/to Vector?
Deadly floods and streams of non-solutions
Three years of recession deeper than GFC
The Hoon around the week to Sept 20
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NZ’s lack of a capital gains tax means the richest here pay vastly less than elsewhere
Too much haste & waste in Simeon Brown's need for speed
Tolling revolt brewing in National heartland
Driving blind at higher speeds
Govt may kick elderly out of hospitals
48 seconds on a plan that would reverberate for a million years
Using blunt instruments and magical thinking to ignore evidence of harm
The Hoon around the week to Sept 13
Treasury warned Govt lower debt limits meant less ‘productivity-enhancing investment’
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How Substack works to take (some) craziness out of America's elections
ACC wants to administer inflation at more than double the RBNZ’s target rate
An average 219 NZers migrated each day in July
Question Two of The Kākā Project of 2026 for 2050 (TKP 26/50)
The 'Infra Boys' Highway to Budget Hell
Hipkins challenges long-held Labour view Government must stay below 30% of GDP
Dead even tie for hottest August ever
The Hoon around the week to Sept 7
The professionals actually think and act like our Government has no fiscal crisis at all
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Inflation alive and kicking in our land of the long white monopolies
No new funding for cycling & walking
Just one Wellington home being consented for every 10 in Auckland
Ditch the climate double speak and get real
The Hoon around the week to August 30
This Govt's infrastructure strategy depends on capital gains taxes & new road taxes
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What austerity actually means and how it pays for $10 billion of tax cuts for the richest 40%
Disabled now have to commit crime, be insane or in crisis to access residential care
Land tax among Labour’s wealth tax options
Starting The Kākā Project of 2026 for 2050 (TKP 26/50)
Labour revisiting 30/30 fiscal rules. Good.
How covenants trumped density in court
Bernard’s Saturday Soliloquy for August 24
Weirdly hot oceans that are losing their breath, and solar panels in the wrong place
The Hoon around the week to August 23
'Those spending cuts will go into the bone'
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PM lectures councils he needs help from
An electricity crisis after a lost decade
The ugliness inside our churn and burn economy
Cutting funds now, but increasing costs later
Introducing The Kākā Project of 2026 for 2050 (TKP 26/50)
Weekly Climate Wrap: Will the planet run AMOC?
PM looks for infrastructure tips in Australia
The Hoon around the week to August 16
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The longer recession the RBNZ and the Govt decided we had to have
House buyers ready to pounce on OCR cut
How not to win friends and tax people
Deficits are not the constraint we think they are
Bernard’s Sunday Soliloquy for the week to August 11
Weekly Climate Wrap: Olympians broil as European temps continue to soar
The Hoon around the week to August 10
Finally, Govt turns to borrowing to try to solve our infrastructure deficit
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Willis screws down fiscal lid even tighter
How Aotearoa's political economy works
Inside NZ's Housing Theory of Everything
At least a decade to achieve affordability under Labour
Bernard’s Sunday Soliloquy for the week to August 4
The Hoon around the week to August 2
Weekly Climate Wrap: The methane mess
The week the mask came off an Austerity Government, revealing front-line job cuts
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Health NZ directors accuse PM of disinformation
Govt warned of mounting climate liability
The day our health system crumbled
When ‘going for housing growth’ means stopping building
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Monday, July 29
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Monday, July 29
Bernard’s Saturday Soliloquy for the week to July 27
Weekly Climate Wrap: The unravelling of the offsets
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Friday, July 26
The Hoon around the week to July 26
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Friday, July 26
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Will debt reduction trump abuse in care redress?
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Thursday, July 25
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Thursday, July 25
'Let's build a motorway costing $100 million per km, before emissions costs'
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Wednesday, July 24
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Wednesday, July 24
Are we fine with 47.9% home-ownership by 2048?
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Tuesday, July 23
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Tuesday, July 23
Solutions Interview: Steven Hail on MMT & ecological economics
Why we have to challenge our national fiscal assumptions
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Monday, July 22
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Monday, July 22
Bernard’s Saturday Soliloquy for the week to July 20
Tax cuts for tobacco companies & landlords
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Friday, July 19
Weekly Climate Wrap: A market-led plan for failure
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Friday, July 19
The Hoon around the week to July 19
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How and why Treasury fuels inter-generational wealth transfer
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Thursday, July 18
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Thursday, July 18
Coalition’s climate plan failing to meet both Zero Carbon and Paris targets
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Wednesday, July 17
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Wednesday, July 17
Luxon tells FT NZ ‘very open’ to AUKUS II
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Tuesday, July 16
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Tuesday, July 16
We grew NZ Inc by exploiting migrant workers
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Monday, July 15
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Monday, July 15
The Kākā’s diary for the week to July 23 and beyond
Govt flounders while ocean temps soar
Bernard’s Saturday Soliloquy for the week to July 13
Govt flounders while ocean temps soar
Why restarting drilling is the costliest move
The Kākā’s Pick 'n' Mix for Friday, July 12
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Friday, July 12
The Hoon around the week to July 12
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Three pages and five bullet points is not a strategy
Bernard's Pick 'n' Mix for Thursday, July 11
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Thursday, July 11
An ‘economic’ decision without a full financial analysis
Bernard's Pick 'n' Mix for Wednesday, July 10
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Wednesday, July 10
Is an inheritance tax better than a CGT?
Bernard's Pick 'n' Mix for Tuesday, July 9
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Tuesday, July 9
The same old gap in ‘Going for Housing Growth’
Bernard's Pick 'n' Mix for Monday July 9
The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Monday, July 8
The Kākā’s diary for the week to July 15 and beyond
Our State of The Kākā Nation 2024
Bernard’s mid-winter pick ‘n’ mix for Thursday, June 27
Growing affordability concerns over power and housing
Employee confidence collapses past covid lows after Budget
Coalition goes for cheap ferry option assuming no population growth
Per-capita GDP recession now worse than GFC, and still falling
Disabled pay cut to $2/hour to pay for tax cuts handing 64% of cash to richest 40%
Consumer confidence collapses after Budget, in contrast with rest of world
Services sector survey indicates deeper and longer recession
Bishop talks up value-capture & congestion charging
The Hoon around the week to June 14
Climate policy axed in broad daylight, while taxpayer liabilities grow in the dark
Seymour sees more joy in faster driving, not accidents, road damage or emissions
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Our churn and burn economy with houses tacked on
Farmers get free pass on climate AND get subsidies
Jones: 'NZ has to mine its way to the future'
Bernard’s Saturday soliloquy and weekend Pick ‘n’ Mix for June 8/9
The Hoon around the week to June 7
Did we boil the oceans by cutting pollution?
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Watering down emissions rules may cost $680 million
One person regulating a killer of 3,300 people
Cancer charities excoriate Government
Tiwai Point stays open, delaying fair transition
Falling monkeys and 'kitty cat' storms
The Hoon around the week to June 1
Willis borrows an extra $12b to pay for $14.7b of tax cuts
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A 'cost of living relief' Budget for some, but not others
RBNZ locks in guardrails to limit the next housing boom to income growth
When ‘back on track’ meant going into reverse
The Kaka’s diary for the week to June 3 and beyond
A ute-tax-killing Government wants ute buyers to pay more fringe benefits tax
How much climate reality can the global financial system take without collapsing?
‘On a Fast-track to environmental disaster’
The Hoon around the week to May 24
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Choosing landlords and the homeless over first home buyers
House-builders in limbo for longer while Govt focuses on paying for tax cuts
Bernard’s pick ‘n’ mix 6 @ 6:06am on Sunday, May 19
The Hoon around the week to May 17
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The damage being caused by broken Council-Govt financial relations
A generation is leaving at a rate of one A320-load per day
The climate battleground heats up
Aotearoa Inc stuck in suspended animation
The Kaka’s diary for the week to May 19 and beyond
Why we almost blacked out and how to fix it
The Hoon around the week to May 10
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Bernard’ s Dawn Chorus & Pick ‘n’ Mix for Thursday May 9
Bernard’ s Dawn Chorus & Pick ‘n’ Mix for Wednesday May 8
A nod and a wink that will unnecessarily cost Aucklanders tens of millions per year
Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Tuesday, May 7
Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Monday, May 6
The Kaka’s diary for the week to May 12 and beyond
Bernard’s dawn chorus for Saturday, May 4 and pick ‘n’ mix for the weekend
Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Friday, May 3
The Hoon around the week to May 3
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Agribusiness following oil and gas playbook
Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Thursday, May 2
Infrastructure & home building slumping on Govt funding freeze
Business confidence sliding into winter of discontent
Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Tuesday, April 30
Worst poll result for a new Government in MMP history
Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Monday, April 29
Coalition's dirge of austerity and uncertainty is driving the economy into a deeper recession
'Lacks attention to detail and is creating double-standards.'
Bernard’s pick ‘n’ mix of the news links for Wednesday, April 24
Both Parliamentary watchdogs hammer Fast-track bill
Bernard’s pick ‘n’ mix of the news links at 6:36am on Tuesday, April 23
Bernard's six-stack of substacks for Monday, April 22
An announcement about an announcement
Bernard’s pick ‘n’ mix of the news links at 7:16am on Monday, April 22
The Kaka’s diary for the week to April 29 and beyond
'This bill is dangerous for the environment and our democracy'
The Hoon around the week to April 19
The ‘Humpty Dumpty’ end result of dismantling our environmental protections
Study sees climate change baking in 19% lower global income by 2050
Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links
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Should the RBNZ be looking through climate inflation?
Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links
Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links at 6:06 am
Bernard's six-stack of substacks at 6:26 pm
Is saving one minute of a politician's time worth nearly $1 billion?
Govt ignored economic analysis of smokefree reversal
Auckland faces 25% water inflation shock
The Hoon around the week to April 12
Antarctic heat spike shocks climate scientists
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Like sand through an hourglass* - trust leaks away
Bernard's Top 10 'pick 'n' mix' at 10:10 am on Thursday, April 11
When 'going for growth' actually means saying no to new social homes
Bernard's six-stack of substacks at 6:06 pm on Wednesday, April 10
Bernard's Top 10 'pick 'n' mix' at 10:10 am on Wednesday, April 10
Bishop more popular than Luxon in Curia poll
Back to the future, with a 2032 deadline
The hunt is on for an asterix for farm emissions
The Kaka’s diary for the week to April 15 and beyond
Dawn Chorus for Friday, April 5
The Hoon around the week to April 5
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New oil and gas to quadruple by 2030, threatening climate goals
Media News You Need - Theoretically
Shit happens; China calls out US on spying
Confidence in Government collapses
Cutbacks and capital freezes chilling economy in longer, deeper recession
The debt rules being used to strangle NZ
The Kaka’s diary for the week to April 8 and beyond
Failing to internalise new realities
The Hoon around the week to March 29
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Curated World-Who to believe on Moscow?
Borrowing $15b more to pay for $14.9b of tax cuts
The elephants still in Chris Bishop’s infrastructure room
Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 7:06pm
Bernard's Top 10 @ 10:10am pick ‘n’ mix for Tuesday, March 26
GDP-per-hour worked stagnant at 2012 levels
The Kaka’s diary for the week to April 2 and beyond
Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6.26pm
Simeon Brown threatens councils on water reform
Bernard’s 6-stack of substacks at 6.16 pm on Friday, March 22
Paying for tax cuts by not funding insulin pumps and glucose monitors for disabled kids
The Hoon around the week to March 22
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IMF calls for capital gains and land taxes
Funds for disabled suspended to pay for tax cuts
Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6.06 pm on Tuesday, March 19
Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' at 10:10am on Tuesday, March 19
Bernard's six newsy things on Tuesday, March 19
Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6.06 pm on March 18
Bernard's six newsy things at 6.36am on Monday, March 18
The Kaka’s diary for the week to March 25 and beyond
Bernard’s Dawn Chorus with six newsey things at 6:46am for Saturday, March 16
Bernard’s six stack of substacks at 6pm on March 15
Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 15
The day Wellington up-zoned its future
The Hoon around the week to March 15
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Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 14
No, Prime Minister, rents don’t rise or fall with landlords’ costs
Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 13
Funding hole for tax cuts growing by the day
How strangling housing supply is killing our capital city
Why isn’t the funding on the same fast track?
The Kaka’s diary for the week to March 18 and beyond
The Hoon around the week to March 9
Public infrastructure and service potholes under massive population pressure
The National Development Act (1979) redux
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'Couch surf. It's better than motels & cheaper for us'
Our nation of inflation displacement
Simeon Brown’s road-taxing bait-and-switch
Luxon's housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on moment
The Hoon around the week to March 2
Migration surge reduced inflation, says Orr
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RBNZ's dovish pivot revives rate cut hopes
Bishop wants house prices to halve vs income
Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 am 'pick 'n' mix' for Feb 27
The day our infrastructure deficits came home to roost
Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 am 'pick 'n' mix'
Will the RBNZ upset NZ Inc's applecart?
The Hoon around the week to Feb 23
Child poverty progress reverses to 2019 levels
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Govt's Budget 'just like a household,' says Willis
S&P slams new Govt's council finance vacuum
We’re not as fragile or as lazy as Luxon says
Is 2.8% per year population growth too much?
The Hoon around the week to Feb 16
The Dawn Chorus for Friday, February 16
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Tax cuts paid for by up to 13k more kids in poverty
Mortgage rates seen high for even longer
The holes in National’s water reform pipes
Kicking down and pulling up the ladder
Looking at clouds from both sides now
The Hoon around the week to Feb 9
The Dawn Chorus for Friday, February 9
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Watching the ladder being pulled up in real time
The magical thinking is still strong in Wellington
This Government has an inflation problem too
'Please manage and fund our climate retreat'
Dawn Chorus for Wednesday, January 31
Dawn Chorus for Tuesday, January 30
When a few climate sceptics skew debates and elections
The Hoon around the week to Jan 26
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Dawn Chorus for Thursday, January 25
The years of living dangerously
Dawn Chorus for Tuesday, January 23
Dawn Chorus for Monday, January 22
The Hoon around the week to Jan 20
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EVs to be taxed twice as hard as petrol cars
Dawn Chorus for Wednesday, January 17
Why The Kākā is staying on Substack
Dawn Chorus for Monday, January 15
Dawn Chorus for Friday, January 12
Dawn Chorus for Thursday, January 11
Dawn Chorus for Wednesday, January 10