Don’t we need a slightly more balanced approach with some stimulus from the government to give the economy a kick start?

Government spends more at the top of the cliff so it requires fewer ambulances at the bottom.

Most people would be comfortable paying between $5 and $9 for prescription items, Medicines NZ says.

The government is looking at a Queensland scheme where buyers of shares in the state’s railways were issued bonus shares if they did not sell their initial buy-up for a specified time.

Without this, parliamentary question time – which can often seem to make time slow to a crawl anyway – would have become interminable.