According to gossip, Jacinda Ardern is pushing for an invitation to the private funeral at Eden Park for Matthew Hunt. His family don’t want her there because she made no attempt to contact them after he was killed. Now that it’s turning into a big event she is allegedly all over it.
Hugging grieving relatives is her thing and what great publicity for her election campaign!
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.
It is up to the people to take back control of the councils, or pay the price.
Medicare starts negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical companies.
Jim Bolger thought he was secure when he went overseas as Prime Minister, only to be met by my father telling him Jenny Shipley had the numbers to roll him. Chris Hipkins now dances with the same perils as he swans off to the UK.
