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Saturday, 13 December 2025

20 YEARS AGO: Some thoughts on property rights

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S ince we have changes to the RMA based, its said, on property rights, I figured these few quotes posted here 20 years ago might be useful ...
Friday, 12 December 2025

RMA replacements "look like an improvement (which wouldn't be difficult), but it still relies excessively on trusting politicians"

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"[ T ]he replacement of the RMA, it looks like an improvement (which wouldn't be difficult), but it still relies excessively on tru...
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"A climate-risk industrial complex has emerged in this space and a lot of money is being made by a lot of people."

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" C limate advocates have embraced the idea of a climate-fuelled insurance crisis as it neatly ties together the hyping of extreme weat...
Thursday, 11 December 2025

So let’s review what Australia’s media ban has actually accomplished here...

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  " A ustralia’s social media ban for kids is now in effect . ... And, of course, it’s not working. Kids are always going to figure ou...

"mRNA vaccines weren’t the problem. The virus was."

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I n the very first large study of long-term mortality by vaccination status—assessing the impact of COVID-19 mRNA vaccination among French a...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Those RMA Replacements: "not a sort of RMA 3.0, but a TCPA 4.0 plus a separate environment thing."

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Y esterday I was looking at the announcements . Today I'm looking more at the two replacement Bills themselves, mostly the Planning Bill...

"The New Zealander prides himself on his common sense"

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" T he New Zealander prides himself on his common sense—that 'settled truth can be attained by observation'[10] and is 'kno...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

RMA Announcement: Live blogging

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1:23pm I t starts badly. “A core failure of the RMA was the absence of clear direction from central government,” Mr Bishop says. No. The ...
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One step forwards, three steps back.

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"Oops." Luxon-led policy-making takes a tumble I t's a rule in politics. The devils is not always in the details. It's of...
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Ardern: "The myth-making begins immediately."

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"' P rime Minister,' the new documentary charting Jacinda Ardern’s ascent , apotheosis and eventual retreat from public life, b...
Monday, 8 December 2025

Spotify Wrapped? No. "A massive thumbs up to anyone that bought a physical copy of anyone’s record this year."

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" L ots of people currently posting their 2025 Spotify Wrapped statistics and artists thanking their listeners for streaming their musi...

"Liberal democracy is a superpower that can make a country, or a continent, great. The world needs to have at least one such liberal democratic power, to a serve as a refuge, a protector, and an example for the rest of the world."

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  " T o my friends in Europe, I want to extend an apology—and an urgent warning. "I am profoundly sorry that Americans are failing...
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Saturday, 6 December 2025

Yes, let's keep piling on Anne Salmond.

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"Salmond claims to have been guided by a list that reads like a Who's Who in  Postmodernity...  What she does not discuss is whethe...
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Friday, 5 December 2025

The open society is the successful society

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" T he most secure and prosperous societies did not hide from the world. They were confident enough to remain open to trade and ideas, ...