Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Yesterday, the Green Party did its best to paint a picture in which it is the victims of Darleen Tana. Naturally, there will be sympathy for the plight of a party embarrassed by an aberrant MP who appears to have misbehaved and looks to
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GREENS RNZ: Greens will have 'sensitive' talks on invoking waka-jumping rule Andrew Geddis (Spinoff): So what’s the point of the party-hopping law, again? Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Darleen Tana and Greens destined for waka-jumping showdown after party ejection, leaving future as MP
Republished with Permission Author: Chris Trotter IT’S A POLITICAL MYSTERY, this alliance between the Left and well-connected property developers. The Right’s covert dealings with commercial greed-heads has for long been a disreputable feature of its brand. The Left, to its credit, still has to work at corruption. Doing
Viv Forbes Saltbush Club How low Australia has fallen – our once-great BHP now has a “Vice President for Climate”, the number of Australian students choosing physics at high school is collapsing and our government opposes nuclear energy while pretending we can build and operate nuclear submarines. Our Green politicians want
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HOUSING Luke Malpass (Post): Like it or loathe it, the coalition is cracking on (paywalled) Miriam Bell and Thomas Manch (The Post): The billion-dollar question hanging over housing reforms (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour and National housing policy leaves anti-density backers nowhere to run
Mark Freeman A Waikato mother is travelling around the country, informing people about the sexualisation of children in the school curriculum and encouraging parents to find out more from their children’s schools. Penny Marie is the founder of Let Kids Be Kids, a New Zealand-wide grassroots network of parents
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HOUSING Joel MacManus (Spinoff): The problem with Chris Bishop’s plan to flood the housing market Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Housing Minister's plan to 'flood' the country with new homes cautiously welcomed Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Government wants to 'flood the
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Dissatisfaction with the Wellington City Council has hit new highs. The Council has just released the results of its annual survey of residents, which shows just how much discontent there is in the city. Overall, Wellingtonians seem to feel that the city is broken
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HOUSING Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government to ‘flood’ cities with more housing by liberalising planning rules Luke Malpass (Post): Chris Bishop to set out radical land use and planning reforms (paywalled) RNZ: Minister announces new Kāinga Ora board, lays out 'expectations' 1News: Construction
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Fixing New Zealand’s rail and ferry infrastructure is becoming the most significant political issue of this year. Having cancelled KiwiRail’s Cook Strait ferry and portside upgrade programme in December without first establishing a Plan B, Finance Minister Nicola Willis has since been
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards MEDIA Duncan Greive (Spinoff): An abrupt U-turn from National, a brave new world for news in New Zealand Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Ministers will shake the Facebook and Google money tree for NZ media RNZ: 'Terrible precedent' - Expert concerns about Fair Digital
Professor Rex Ahdar University of Otago Forget the NBA or NHL Finals. Who cares about UEFA Euro 2024 and the Super Rugby Pacific semi-finals? We have the Intersectionality Playoffs 2024. Despite a poor regular season, the Free Palestine coalition have made it through to their first semi-finals in many years
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HOUSING Dan Brunskill (Interest): An unlikely coalition of New Zealand voters are backing Housing Minister Chris Bishop’s mission to bring down house prices Susan Edmunds (RNZ): House prices need to fall 'a further 16%' to become affordable 1News: Tumultuous time for
THERE ARE LESSONS to be learned from the Biden-Trump debate/debacle. Important lessons, which New Zealanders would be most unwise to ignore. The first and most important of these is the need to face some harsh truths.
