Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 10:10 am, October 5th, 2023 - 16 comments
Categories: climate change, election 2023, Environment, ETS, james shaw, national, same old national, science
Tags: Paris agreement, RNZ, simon watts
… Monday, National climate change spokesperson Simon Watts said a National government… as hydro, wind and solar. Simon Louisson is a former journalist…
I recently downloaded ChatGPT and as an experiment asked it to tell me about our house, the Pilot's Cottage, a historic house in Seatoun. While it started off ok - "The Pilot's Cottage is a historic building located in the suburb of Seatoun in Wellington, ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 8:15 am, February 22nd, 2023 - 37 comments
Categories: chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, labour, national, nicola willis, Politics, polls, same old national
Tags:
… future. She is deeply tactical. (Simon Louisson is a former journalist…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 7:25 am, February 21st, 2023 - 65 comments
Categories: art, books, jacinda ardern, Media, media abuse, misogny, Nicola Sturgeon, online abuse, Politics, social media, taxpayers union
Tags: eleanor catton
… platforms that were safe environments. (Simon Louisson is a former reporter…
Banks are different beasts to other companies- assets include customers’ deposits so as you can imagine that hugely alters things and thus a 1 % return on total assets is massive.
Banks are different beasts to other companies- assets include customers’ deposits so as you can imagine that hugely alters things and thus a 1 % return on total is massive.
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 3:57 pm, February 20th, 2023 - 69 comments
Categories: budget 2023, climate change, debt / deficit, Economy, Environment, tax
Tags: banks, margaret thatcher, windfall taxes
… help lock-in its advantage. (Simon Louisson is a former reporter…
... today in which TVNZ ceo Simon Power expressed concerns that the...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 9:15 am, August 31st, 2022 - 7 comments
Categories: broadcasting, Media, public services, radio, tv, willie jackson
Tags: All Blacks, RNZ, tvnz
… submission to the select committee. (Simon Louisson worked for over 30…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 1:31 pm, July 28th, 2022 - 46 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, Dirty Politics, national, Politics, same old national
Tags: andrea vance, Blue Blood
… as one MP says of Simon Bridges, Todd Muller and others… of radical-right operatives including Simon Lusk, Cameron Slater, Jordan … Bridge’s brother-in-law, Simon O’Connor, put a decent…nationwide in bookstores for $35 (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall…
The advantage of simplicity over fairness is often bought up by accounting experts whose job often entails devising complex ways for people to avoid paying tax. Re CGT, all of the TWG unanimously agreed on the need for a CGT although there was a minority ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 3:40 pm, April 27th, 2022 - 49 comments
Categories: capital gains, david parker, Economy, inequality, Politics, tax
Tags: fair taxes, income inequality, tax avoidance
… seven taxes. We’re not.” Simon Louisson, a former journalist, reported…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 1:14 pm, January 27th, 2022 - 154 comments
Categories: benefits, covid-19, Economy, inequality, Politics, Social issues
Tags: bernard hickey, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, Kathryn Ryan, quantitative easing, reserve bank, social policy, wealth tax
… Group nearly three years ago. Simon Louisson reported for The Wall…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 7:15 am, December 8th, 2021 - 136 comments
Categories: brand key, Christopher Luxon, john key, Media, politicans, Politics
Tags: cult, jack tame
… a smooth-talking rich man. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 12:30 pm, November 4th, 2021 - 70 comments
Categories: Maori Issues, Politics, republic
Tags: constitution, monarchy, prince charles, queen elizabeth II
… all participants were over 60. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall…
I wonder where lockdown flouter William John Lawrence Willis of Wanaka infamy gets his entitlement from? Chartered accountant father Robert John Willis owns a company called Wire Works, family owned for three generations. A profile on the net gives us a ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 7:52 am, July 26th, 2021 - 51 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, tax, transport
Tags: utes
… and ‘80s,” Dr Wild says. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 7:46 am, November 27th, 2020 - 34 comments
Categories: covid-19, Media, Social issues
Tags: bernard hickey, Kris Faafoi, NZME, RNZ, stuff
…. They are a commercial organisation’.” (Simon Louisson is a former journalist…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 12:19 pm, October 25th, 2020 - 17 comments
Categories: labour, national, Politics
Tags: caucus, leaks, opposition, winning from opposition
…nine months English’s successor, Simon Bridges, kept party support at…in 2014, she completely destabilised Simon Bridges, and she was behind…to change the leader from Simon to Todd, and then from…makes use of idle hands. (Simon Louisson worked as a journalist…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 7:14 am, October 21st, 2020 - 33 comments
Categories: capital gains, Economy, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, labour, national, Politics, same old national, tax
Tags:
… a deeply unpopular leader in Simon Bridges. Third iteration National leader…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 6:53 am, September 4th, 2020 - 62 comments
Categories: election 2017, election 2020, greens, jacinda ardern, john key, labour, nz first, political parties, Politics, poverty, tax, winston peters
Tags: jim bolger, neoliberalism, ruth richardson, tax working group, working for families
… how well she seizes it. (Simon Louisson worked as a journalist…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 3:00 pm, August 1st, 2020 - 13 comments
Categories: eugenie sage
Tags: e-waste, greenpeace, plastics, waste
… seems a good first step. (Simon Louisson worked as a journalist…
Are you trying to say that if the affair was outed earlier then it may have been stopped in its tracks and Douglas et al would have been able to continue the monetarist experiment including the 20% flat tax proposal?
I think this business is about Dirty Politics and political optics. Long-term affairs like this are rarely a secret in Parliament. For example, everyone in the Press Gallery when I worked there knew about the affair between David Lange and his speech ...
Economist, ex Roundtable member and former Comalco general manager Kerry McDonald argues in an article on Businessdesk that the Tiwai Point smelter has never had a subsidised power supply and its closure is unlikely to benefit consumers. https://...
Remember Thornley adjusted for the fact that most cruise passengers are elderly
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 10:45 am, April 7th, 2020 - 93 comments
Categories: Economy, jacinda ardern
Tags: bernard hickey, depression, reserve bank, sweden, the netherlands
… down,” says leading academic epidemiologist Simon Thornley of Auckland University. He… print our way of this.” (Simon Louisson formerly worked for Reuters…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 9:39 am, January 3rd, 2020 - 5 comments
Categories: boris johnson, Donald Trump, International
Tags: book review, britain, John le Carré, russia, Spying, United States
… Iraq war on false evidence. (Simon Louisson, a former journalist, reported…
Just to clarify - WIAL is what as known as a requiring authority and local authority under the designation and compulsory acquisition processes of the Public Works Act. The golf club was counselled that "assuming that WIAL is able to produce compelling ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 8:15 am, October 30th, 2019 - 26 comments
Categories: local government, Politics
Tags: andy foster, Mark Blumsky, peter jackson, wellington, wellington airport, wellington city council
…. We will watch this space. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 1:45 am, April 10th, 2019 - 73 comments
Categories: australian politics, Dirty Politics, International, jacinda ardern, Media, Politics
Tags: facebook, hate crime, hate speech, privacy commissioner, semi-automatics, social media
…, it’s time to lead. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall…
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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