Concerning her resignation, outgoing Labour MP Louisa Wall says:
“I’m not a minister because the Prime Minister told me I would never be in her cabinet. […]
“[Y]ou’re going to have ask her about why she thought there was no place for someone like me in the Labour Party caucus. […]
“I just wanted to use the role I had to make the lives of New Zealanders better.”
NZ Herald
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The next two years are shaping up as brutal for Labor.
The Government should be careful it’s not sleepwalking the country into the final act of a disaster decades in the making.
Here is yet another example of why the much-vaunted gun register will fail.
The Australian experience is a master class on how to deal with vaping badly. The New Zealand Government would do well to avoid heavy-handed regulation of vaping products, but, alas, I have little faith that they will do so.
