1News released their latest Colmar Brunton poll yesterday: Labour: 50 down 9 (62 seats) National: 38 up 9 (47 seats) Greens: 6 (7 seats) NZ First: 2 Act: 3 (4 seats) Preferred PM Jacinda Ardern: 54 Todd Muller: 13 Net Approvals Jacinda Ardern: Not given in news segment Todd Muller:
It’s been a week since problems at the New Zealand border first emerged, but the cloud hanging over Health Minister David Clark’s career hasn’t lifted. It’s a big deal calling for someone to resign. Despite much jeering and jibing, the Opposition doesn’t often call for
1News has released their latest Colmar Brunton poll tonight: Labour: 50 down 9 (62 seats) National: 38 up 9 (47 seats) Greens: 6 (7 seats) NZ First: 2 Act: 3 (4 seats) Preferred PM Jacinda Ardern: 54 Todd Muller: 13 Net Approvals Jacinda Ardern: Not given in news segment Todd
EDITORIAL: The calculators and spreadsheets of finance staff in our local government offices are working overtime. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced councils to rewrite their annual plans and recalculate their proposed average rates increases for the 2020-21 financial year. It’s a momentous task they will be scrambling to complete
The debacle that is the light rail project up Dominion Road has been electrocuted. The hoped for Streetcar named Desire is no more and it appears it is thanks to Winston Peters. Well, I’ll happily stand first in the queue to thank him. If ever there was a dumb
Winston Peters has again said no to wasteful and silly spending, this time it is the light rail project that Labour promised would be completed by 2021, but so far hasn’t had a single rail tie laid. The Government has conceded its flagship transport has been put on ice,
If you had asked me last week whether or not I thought the Government would go full term, then I’d have said yes. Now, I’d hedge my bets, but say the likelihood of an earlier election has passed a greater than 50% chance and is likely heading towards
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A proposal to make hate speech a criminal offence, as it is in the United Kingdom, has been stalled and is unlikely to pass before the election. The Government fast-tracked a review of hate speech legislation in the wake of the March 15 Christchurch terror attack last year. Justice Minister
A message to Todd Muller and the Nats. Do you want to win the election? Here’s your sentence. We will rescind any agreement put in place by this Government that involves the use of taxpayer money to purchase the disputed land at Ihumatao or any other privately owned land
Christchurch Central’s Labour MP has accused city leaders of supporting a “1980s-style austerity” budget that will cost thousands of jobs and damage the city for years to come. Duncan Webb blasted Christchurch City Council on Tuesday for proposing to cut its capital programme by $168 million, and increase rates
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Mike: We begin as we always do these days with the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who is with us. A very good morning to you. Jacinda: Good morning Mike. Mike: So, how many people left hotels without testing? Jacinda: (Sucks in breath) Well, from the 9th of June of course
A grieving American woman who was allowed to attend her father’s wake just a day after arriving in Auckland was not tested before being granted a compassionate exemption, the Herald can reveal. The case comes as the Government still can’t say today how many people were allowed out
