A Motorcycle Ride with a Difference

Gareth MorganTravel

Jo with the Motorbike parked at the DMZ last time we were in Korea We have this plan to ride our motorcycles down the length of the Korean peninsula, from the north of the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) … Read More

Not So Pure

Gareth MorganEnvironment

We live in times of great prosperity – at least measured via conventional means such as GDP or national income per capita. Income per head is three times what it was fifty years ago in 1960, which is progress for … Read More

Park Up the Emotion, Get a Grip on the Issue

Gareth MorganUncategorized

Following on from this weeks posts (“Some motorbike riders need to get real” and “Let’s levy the rider and not the motorbike“) I would say the motorcycling community  suffers from a number of delusions, the greatest being; Park Up the … Read More

Some motorbike riders need to get real

Gareth MorganUncategorized

The other day I posted an article about ACC levies on motorcycle riders. The conclusion I reached, once I got to grips with what was happening in the motorcycling injury scene and what is driving ACC’s bills in this area, … Read More

Let’s levy the rider not the motorbike

Gareth MorganUncategorized

Recently ACC architect Sir Owen Woodhouse commented that in moving to full funding in 1999 and ditching pay-as-you-go, the government made a grave mistake with ACC. He cites the 30 per cent loading to annual levies to fund the tail … Read More

John Key and capital gains tax in New Zealand

Gareth MorganUncategorized

Acknowledgement by John Key that a capital gains tax only makes sense if it includes residential property is acknowledgement that we’ve got taxation of capital in New Zealand all wrong. I couldn’t agree more with that observation. John Key and … Read More