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• The right prescription?

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 550
  Brian Fallow responded to the report of the 2025 Taskforce’s first report with a column headlined: Old precription unlikely to fix new ills. Taskforce chair, Don Brash, wrote an op-ed in response which the Herald delcined to publish because “the debate is moving on”. Just how far a debate moves in a day is ...
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• Guest Post – Is New Zealand really Doomed by Distance?

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 143
  Brian Fallow is one of New Zealand’s best economic journalists. But his article on 10 December dismissing the report of the 2025 Taskforce as “1980s thinking”, under the headline “Old prescription unlikely to fix new ills”, misses the boat completely and demonstrates that he is out of touch with ...
  1 week ago

• Quotation for Today, Thursday 10 December

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 484
  If the Government had ever intended its 2025 task force to be taken seriously, it wouldn’t have appointed Don Brash to lead it. Tracy Watkins writing in her Stuff blog
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• Herald shamed into publishing Brash response

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 143
  On Thursday morning The NZ Herald published an ill informed tirade from Garth George about the 2025 Taskforce and its report. Don Brash dashed off a response to that tirade and submitted it to the Editor at the Herald Tim Murphy before lunchtime on Thursday. The response wasn’t published on either Friday or on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brash responds to George

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 634
  Garth George’s column in the NZ Herald last Thursday was critical of the 2025 taskforce chaired by Don Brash. The Herald (as is their right) declined to publish a response from Don, so he has offered it to various bloggers. His response is below and it is a first class fisking: GARTH GEORGE HAS IT SERIOUSLY ...
  2 weeks ago

• No conspiracy

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 550
  The NZ Herald has printed Don Brash’s response to Garth George’s column today. George’s column was published on Thursday and Brash  submitted his response that morning. When it hadn’t been printed by Saturday, he emailed it directly to George and copied it to other people. At least two other boggers ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quotation for Today, Monday 7 December

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 484
  There’s a nice old saying about how bewildering it is when you don’t quite realise that others find you a a colossal bore and embarrassment: “I brought my harp to the party, but no one asked me to play!” This must be how Don Brash and his productivity posse are feeling. Let’s not forget, they were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cullen on Brash

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 484
  A letter to the Editor of The Dominion Post on the Brash 2025 Report 2025 Task Force chairman Don Brash tells us that not only are his policies the only ones that will close the income gap with Australia, but that the reason they have not been followed is a lack of courage on the part of successive governments. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lifted

  
  No Minister — Authority: 554
  Here is a post from Whaleoil, pinched in its entirety. Pinched because (a) its hugely important and (b) because Whaleoil does not appear to have asked the Herald the obvious question. "Did you infact refuse to publish Dr Brashs response to Garth Georges commentary and if so why?" Adolf will be writing to Mr Murphy ...
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• Don Brash responds to Garth George

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 143
  Don Brash wrote a letter to the Herald regarding the serious errors about the 2025 Taskforce report that Garth George had in his column. The Herald has refused to publish it, proving once again that the repeaters and the editors of our media are seeking to control the message. According Don has asked that I and other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brash responds to George

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 550
  Herald columnist Garth George was one of the people who was less than impressed with the recommendations of the 2025 Taskforce. Taskforce chair Don Brash said George had got several things wrong in his column. He wrote an op-ed countering that which the Herald hasn’t yet published so he emailed it directly to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Goff says axe 2025 taskforce

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 634
  The Herald reports : The 2025 Taskforce set up to find ways to catch up with Australia’s economic growth should be scrapped, Labour Leader Phil Goff says. Mr Goff said today it had a budget of $447,000 over three years and had so far cost $150,000. “The taskforce’s first report was a complete and utter ...
  2 weeks ago

• Goff: Scrap the 2025 Taskforce

  
  The Standard — Authority: 601
  We all know the 2025 Taskforce is a farce and a waste of taxpayers’ money. The Government has disowned it, the critics have panned it. Even Garth George has come out calling for its first report to be recycled into toilet paper. It genuinely appears to serve no function but to subsidise the wacky right-wing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Words of wisdom from the 19th century

  
  The Standard — Authority: 601
  One of the most amusing things in the granny today is Garth George, our iconoclast from Rotorua ripping another hole into the credibility of the Brash Taskforce 2025 . Absurdities abound, the first of which was the appointment of people like Dr Brash and Mr Caygill who, along with their soulmate, Act Party ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oram on the Brash Report

  
  The Standard — Authority: 601
  Always worth listening to, Rod Oram rips the Brash Report on Nine to Noon, not just on the findings but on the quality of the work, that we’re paying half a million dollars for. Here are some of the choice quotes: “At every point it has unbelievably facile analysis and, in fact, substitutes rather generic ...
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• Fran on Key

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 634
  Fran lets loose : John Key’s celebrated faux pas at his first National Party conference as leader (”Under a Labour Government I lead … ) was portrayed as simply an inadvertent slip born out of nervousness. But after Key’s outright panning of the Don Brash-led 2025 Taskforce report his 2007 slip-up is ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Ghost of Budgets Past

  
  frogblog — Authority: 544
  Like someone watching a bad zombie movie, we have now been subjected to the unnerving sight of Don the Undead emerging from the darkness, rattling the chains of thoroughly discredited twenty-five year-old Treasury advice, and offering a prescription for putting the Government on a diet that would make a supermodel ...
  2 weeks ago

• Systemic failure of the media

  
  The Standard — Authority: 601
  felix in comments points out in his usual sarcastic style about the media response on Don Brash’s 2025 Taskforce report. For example, consider this online poll (tvnz): What do you think of Don Brash’s 2025 Taskforce financial report? It’s too radical It’s about right It doesn’t go far enough All ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Hollow/Straw Men’s Pay Day

  
  Grant Robertson - Wellington Central — Authority: 126
  John Armstrong covers the cost of the Don Brash 2025 Taskforce  in the NZ Herald today.  It is simply absurd that New Zealanders should keep shelling out for John Key’s government to have a straw man that pops up annually in an attempt to make them look more moderate.  They clearly have no intention of ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2025 and Don Brash

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 484
  Have yet to read the 2025 taskforce report, but am not surprised at the reception. As Adam susepcted it appears to be full of tired nostrums. Indeed a 147 page political suicide note. Given some comments Brash had made earlier Adam had hoped for something much better, but sadly it was not to be. This should not be ...
  2 weeks ago

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