The 1News/Colmar Brunton poll is out and it confirms where the numbers are, rather than the topsy-turvy Newshub/Reid Research. Labour – 47 down 1 National – 33 up 1 Green – 7 up 1 Act – 8 up 1 NZF – 1 down 1 Undecided – 11% Parliamentary seat entitlement based on these poll
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hobsonspledge.nz Ihumatao is perhaps the most visible race-relations shambles that the next government will have to fix. Located near Auckland Airport, Ihumatao is where activists have protested against Fletcher’s plans to build almost 500 homes on land that it bought from a private owner whose family had owned
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Alwyn Poole One of your senior members said to me, “I know children don’t vote,” but in New Zealand, things are a mess and the impact on the future especially for the people you are not normally seen to represent — Maori, Pasifika and the poor — is immense. You have
Press Release: ACT Party “Labour’s policy to ban stickers on fruit and plastic knives and forks is nothing more than virtue signalling that will inconvenience New Zealanders,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is classic Labour Party policy. There will be no problem definition or cost-benefit analysis.“The Government’
Continuing on from my previous article I will look at more of Labour’s achievement claims that fail the scrutiny test. ENVIRONMENT * Passed the landmark Zero Carbon Act, with a target of zero carbon emissions by 2050. Like COVID this is elimination playtime. In terms of our emissions, so what?
Anne There’s something about a headscarf on Megan Woods that makes me laugh. Yes, terrible, I laugh. On Ardern it’s a cringe. On Nasrin, I’m upset, bewildered, angry. Nasrin’s dedication as a human rights lawyer, activist and supporter of the movement to free Iranian women of
Add ending child poverty to the long list of government fails. It was Ardern’s catch phrase in 2017 and joins the list of Labour’s failed promises. UNESCO ranks us 35th out of 41 developed countries for a child’s wellbeing. The relationship between poverty and family violence is
Newshub-Reid Research poll Tova O’Brien (Newshub): National is in a classic opposition party death spiral Audrey Young (Herald): Latest poll is a shocker for National (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Labour – walking away with it Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: For the first time, exclusive polling shows how
Whatever the outcome of the election, it seems the political landscape in New Zealand will be changed forever. The media is treating NZ First as if it has already gone, which is a death knell to a man who has been on the political scene for over 40 years. Regardless
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