We were hoping to feature a regular investment column on GoG – but we’ve been gagged by a new roll of red tape. If you think that the Electoral Finance Act stifles public information, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
When finance companies in New Zealand fell like a small house of cards, a major complaint was [...]
Police Minister Annette King is entirely right to say that no government can be expected to have a policeman on every street corner, waiting to intercept acts of random robbery, rape and mindless violence.
But she misses the point. She says that her government has thrown millions of dollars into extra police officers and “systems”. Evidently, [...]
Try clicking on the link to Don’t Vote Labour at the bottom of this page. Instead of an explanation of why people shouldn’t vote Labour, the content has been replaced by a statement explaining why the author has been gagged. The website, which cost less than $100, advocated that people not vote for Labour due [...]
National leader John Key is either playing fast and loose in an attempt to wrong-foot Labour, or he thinks us voters are idiots. How else can we explain his State of the Nation speech, which merely said that the state of the nation can be put down to youth crime and violence?
His advisors might have [...]
Stephen Powell was pulled over for doing 19 km/h over the limit. He told the officer that he was responding to a burglar alarm at his shop. The cop took no notice and insisted on going through the whole nine yards, including a breathalyser test. When Stephen got to his shop, it had indeed been [...]
Neurotic governments that need a secret police to stay in power generally have no trouble finding a ready supply of equally insecure members of the public who are prepared to snitch on friends and neighbours.
New Zealand has no secret police (as far as we know), but it is becoming increasingly clear that the Nanny [...]
Former double gold medal-winning equestrian Mark Todd (51) is coming out of eight years’ retirement to hopefully compete at his sixth Olympic Games and try for a third gold, in Beijing.
Todd, who previously won gold aboard Charisma at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and then again at Seoul four years later, will return to competition [...]
Here comes the annual Easter trading debate, surrounded by religious mumbo-jumbo and irrational shopping laws. It comes round every year – and it always will, until politicians stop being scared of the religious lobby and confront the issue once and for all.
Not only do we have to fight our way through the piles of [...]
Do you sometimes feel that the bottom is falling out of your world? If so, scoff some tasty New Zealand chicken - then sit down somewhere safe, and watch the world fall out of your bottom.
Seriously, though, this country has an epidemic of food poisoning caused by Campylobacter-infected poultry. It’s costing NZ taxpayers more than [...]
Anyone putting money into shares during the last five or six years would – until very recently – have done very nicely indeed.
Today, many are panicking and selling out at a hefty penalty. That’s precisely what smart investors love. At times like this, shares don’t actually depreciate; they are merely bought by clever, patient people [...]
