The ‘Collins threshold’ has now been reached. The ‘Collins threshold’ is the number to trigger a leadership spill if National dropped below 40% in the polls. UMR’s latest polling has National slipping two percentage points from June’s 40% to 38%. Worse still is the left-right gap, which is
Part Four: Why does good government matter? New purpose in the public service But let’s be honest, our wellbeing challenges cannot be solved in one Budget – or even ten. Public investment is a powerful lever for change, but it’s only one. We also need to embed the idea
Part three: Why does good government matter? The broader view: wellbeing economics This year, in New Zealand, we introduced our first Wellbeing Budget. We didn’t abandon the previous approach to public finance. We widened it. We said not only “What will be most conducive to economic growth?” but also,
Why does good government matter? Part Two: Inequalities past and present We can start with the state of many developed economies. While they continue to grow in overall economic terms (if not as quickly as they once did), they have too often failed to share the benefits of that growth.
Why does good government matter? E nga mana, e nga reo, rau-rangatira ma Prestigious people, speakers of note, chiefs one and all Nga tangata whenua, o tenei rohe Tena koutou katoa I acknowledge the indigenous people of this land and greet all of you in te reo M?ori – the
Jacinda Ardern has chosen to alienate 10% of the Voting Public because one foreign criminal skirted all our existing safeguards. She thinks that she can do what Canada, Australia and the UK have all failed to do at a cost of millions of dollars. The Government wants a national register
Straight out of the gate I want to make it very clear that the person behind this blocklist that I am going to tell you about is free to be a complete jackbooted, authoritarian, self-righteous, finger-pointing, judgemental, conspiracy chasing, racist scumbag. I believe in free speech and he is free
Simon Bridges has said that the 135 electric vehicles that have been added to the government fleet since the Labour coalition took office is paltry and shows that it is failing to lead by example. In real terms, the government itself has done nothing on electric vehicles since the election,
Since the Christchurch terror attack, the media hand in glove with the government have done their very best to demonise gun owners. Now the Deputy Police Commissioner Mike Clement has gone one step further… he is demonising inanimate objects! Guns cannot be “evil” in their nature, as he claims, any
If Bridges wants to do more as Prime Minister than get his portrait hoisted in an obscure corridor of Parliament he needs to win office in his own right and to do that he must end Peters’ political career. * Phase 1: End Winston’s political career * Phase two: ? * Phase 3:
A reader was curious about Kiwibuild at Pegasus in North Canterbury so went for a drive to check it out and he has shared his observations and photos with us. It is obvious from the photos that a metre of the section down either side of the home is the
The Pacific Games were held in Samoa this month. A biological man stood above two Pacific Island women on the podium. “With their silver and bronze medals, they were stony-faced. Feagaiga Stowers and Iuniarra Sipaia should have worn gold and silver.” Missing from the photo was Charisma Amoa Tarrant. Rightfully
8 July at 11:40 A local Australian police station received this question from a resident through the feedback section of a local police website: “I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?” In response, a Sergeant
The media in Samoa have not been infected with the PC virus that our NZ media have. Reading their take on Hubbard winning gold against a Samoan weight lifter was hilarious if only for its refreshing honesty. Hubbard moment the biggest and most blatant injustice in Samoa XVI Pacific Games
Golriz Ghahraman often gets her next attention seeking tweet content from American politicians and activists like “The Squad” and Linda Sarsour. Squad member Ilhan Omar true to her anti-Semitic and anti-Israel roots has this week introduced a resolution to support the Palestinian led BDS. Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says
A teen was reduced to tears after her speech about a friend’s suicide during a Youth Parliament debate was interrupted by senior National MP Anne Tolley. Lily Dorrance, 17, was talking about mental health and describing her loss in Parliament’s debating chamber yesterday when Tolley, presiding as chair,
