I confess that the MacDoctor was seriously thinking about chucking in this blogging lark. For the past week or so the news has been deeply uninspiring, with lackluster lists from Labour, gaggles of gays and a gormless Goff. Nothing new there, then. National found itself essentially nationalising another company. Nothing new there, either. For a [...]

It really was a bumper day for left-wing whining today. The 90-day probation was extended to all businesses, the minimum wage went up to $13.00 ph and ACC re-introduced experience rating. All favorite left-wing bug-bears. The Herald shamelessly published a horribly slanted article on the 90-day trail with Helen Kelly in full cry, accusing National of [...]

New Zealand is now contemplating using the same set of incentives to boost immunisation rates that Australia used to boost it’s rates from 50% to 91%. The MacDoctor is not convinced that New Zealanders will respond quite as well as Australians to the incentives. The incentives were: Cash payments to parents for completing immunisations at [...]

Colin Espiner blogs on the mess that is ACC today. For the most part I agree with what he has to say, but one particular sentence stood out. In the midst of a comment about the large increase of fees for motorcyclists (which is somehow “unfair” –  despite that fact that motorcyclists cost ACC far [...]