It’s a shame we don’t have more coverage on this in our media. The Philippines electing Rodrigo Duterte as president is crazy but reality. Popularly nicknamed “the Filipino Trump” is an understatement and shows how little we care, trivialise and joke about these important issues.

This is the same person who vows to kill 10,000 criminals and jokes about heinous crimes such as murder and rape. Not exactly the person I want in power. However this points to a more damning issue: the desperation of people to vote in someone who seeks to remove corruption. No policy can be greater than this and people are willing to overlook some of his more brash and infamous comments and views if he is able to do exactly just that. A sad state that we are in.

It is one thing to be anti-establishment, and another to be like Mr. Duterte. But if he can do what he sets out to do (with corruption) then I guess that is a another step of progress.

What a timely news article! This is Mr. Key’s first ever ejection from Parliament during his tenure as Prime Minister.

Over the Panama Papers no less. Clearly there’s a lot of controversy around foreign trusts and whether or not international firms and lawyers are using our lenient tax laws for the purposes of tax planning. Don’t think I’ve ever seen him lose his cool like that before, hopefully when the dust settles we can have a clear and concise future of our tax legislation that doesn’t put it under the spotlight of tax avoidance.

What we need is robust debate, hopefully this serves as a sign and we can be productive sooner than later.