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More than One Way to Address Housing Prices
Sunday, 4 September 2011, 10:49 am | Stephen Berry
“I commend Don Brash for the raising the issue of the Resource Management Act‘s effect on housing prices and the disgraceful violation of private property rights it perpetrates,” says Stephen Berry, Independent candidate for Tamaki. “However ... More >>
Labour MP’s Should Be Unemployed
Thursday, 1 September 2011, 8:22 pm | Stephen Berry
Tamaki Independent candidate Stephen Berry finds Labour’s plan to reduce youth unemployment laughable and believes the party’s math just doesn’t add up. Labour intends to divert state cash from dole payments and use them as a training subsidy ... More >>
Earthquake an Excuse for Statists to Maintain Big Government
Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 1:43 pm | Stephen Berry
Tamaki Independent candidate Stephen Berry is not surprised to see the usual players trot out the usual excuses for maintaining big Government and fiscal irresponsibility. “Now it seems that the cost of the Christchurch earthquake is going to be even ... More >>
Alcohol: The New Election Issue
Friday, 26 August 2011, 1:40 pm | Stephen Berry
Justice Minister Simon Power has today announced that the Government welcomes the report from the Justice and Electoral Select Committee on the Alcohol Law Reform Bill. “We’ve agreed to accept all 130 substantive changes to clauses to help ... More >>
No State Aid for Libya!
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 1:01 pm | Stephen Berry
Tamaki Independent candidate Stephen Berry is absolutely opposed to an announcement by Prime Minister John Key stating he intends to give Government aid to Libya. “He’s got enough of his own money to give away. Why should he give ours away instead?” More >>
National Demands Celebration of Mediocrity
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 10:48 am | Stephen Berry
Stephen Berry, Independent candidate for Tamaki, advises Minister of Social Welfare and six million dollar woman, Paula Bennett, to take her focus away from her economy standard marketing team and apply extra care to her portfolio, following a government ... More >>
Kronic: Berry Says Keep Freedom Legal!
Monday, 1 August 2011, 10:16 pm | Stephen Berry
Tamaki Independent candidate Stephen Berry calls upon MP’s to vote against a ban on synthetic cannabis this Thursday. “It is another nail in the coffin of our liberty. John Key is seduced by the poisonous lure of populism ahead of November’s elections, ... More >>
Greens Demand Celebration of Mediocrity
Saturday, 30 July 2011, 5:00 pm | Stephen Berry
Press Release Stephen Berry Greens Demand Celebration of Mediocrity Tamaki Independent candidate Stephen Berry congratulates those who are on the latest National Business Review rich list. “Success, greed and ambition are all important qualities for ... More >>
Berry Defends the Right to Offend
Monday, 25 July 2011, 12:26 pm | Stephen Berry
“It’s Erotica season again and the deluge of hate from prudish, anti-freedom nanny statists is about to begin,” says Stephen Berry, Independent candidate for Tamaki in the 2011 election. More >>
Tyrant Tariana Announces Tobacco Injustice
Friday, 15 July 2011, 10:19 am | Stephen Berry
Tamaki Independent candidate Stephen Berry has attacked Associate Minister of Health Tariana Turia’s announcement of the passing of the Smoke-free Environments (Controls and Enforcement) Amendment Bill. This bill bans the display of tobacco in retail ... More >>
Labour is History – Not Economists
Friday, 15 July 2011, 10:17 am | Stephen Berry
Stephen Berry says the tax policy released by Labour on Thursday does not add up. “Their new taxes in some places only pay for tax reductions in other places. These taxes don’t fund their grandiose spending plans and they don’t shrink the deficit!” More >>
Dealing With Housing Market Investment Distortion
Monday, 11 July 2011, 10:56 pm | Stephen Berry
Tamaki Independent candidate Stephen Berry earlier this week outlined his opposition to Labour’s planned Capital Gains Tax. “What the media has failed to report, is the other options the Government has available to remove the economic distortion ... More >>
Maori Party “Wasting Time Commenting Further”
Monday, 11 July 2011, 10:47 am | Stephen Berry
Tamaki Independent candidate Stephen Berry is amused by an open letter from Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples to Don Brash regarding the Act Party’s advertisement on Maori radicalism. It comes less than 24 hours after Maori Party co-leader Tariana ... More >>
Abolish Welfare and Open the Borders
Sunday, 10 July 2011, 12:13 pm | Stephen Berry
Press Release Stephen Berry Immigration Abolish Welfare and Open the Borders! “Despite having hundreds of thousands dependent on the welfare state, New Zealand faces a shortage in unskilled labour that is being hampered by Government immigration policy,” ... More >>
Berry Slams Labour’s Capital Gains Tax
Thursday, 7 July 2011, 10:11 am | Stephen Berry
“Labour is rehashing a tired idea to satisfy their envy of the rich which will only create more chains for the poor!” says Independent Tamaki candidate Stephen Berry in response to Labour’s plans to introduce a capital gains tax on investment ... More >>
Berry Says Polling On Drinking Age Irrelevant
Friday, 1 July 2011, 9:53 am | Stephen Berry
Stephen Berry has labelled a Herald-Digipoll Survey on opinions regarding increasing the alcohol purchase age irrelevant saying, “It doesn’t matter if 99% of people want the age increased, a majority has no right to control the lives of individual ... More >>
Stephen Berry Applauds Ruling on Banning Women
Saturday, 11 June 2011, 4:29 pm | Stephen Berry
Press Release Stephen Berry Human Rights Stephen Berry Applauds Ruling on Banning Women from Gay Venue Collingwood gay venue Sircuit Bar has won the right to ban women from its premises in a landmark ruling by a Victoria Court. Tamaki Independent candidate ... More >>
Labour Party No Substitute for Economic Nous
Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 1:22 pm | Stephen Berry
“Labour’s Jacinda Adern is either economically illiterate or willing to deliberately mislead the public in order to gain the vote of the hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders stuck in entitlement mode,” says Stephen Berry who is standing as an ... More >>
Key Needs To Be Strong on Welfare Reform
Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 11:59 am | Stephen Berry
Key Needs To Be Strong on Welfare Reform “It is fantastic to see that National will be going into the next election campaign on a platform of welfare reform,” says Stephen Berry, Independent candidate for Tamaki. “I wonder, will their platform ... More >>
Bill English Invents New Sedative
Friday, 20 May 2011, 9:15 am | Stephen Berry
Tamaki Independent candidate Stephen Berry commends Bill English for inventing the world’s most effective sedative with the release of the 2011 budget. “This budget lacks balls. It is boring and without imagination. This budget contains no vision, ... More >>
