Yesterday, the Green Party launched a policy on making dental treatment more readily available and free for all, not just those under the age of 18. The party wants to see dental vans and mobile clinics increase to 398. Health spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March said an estimated 40 per cent
ACT leader David Seymour was grilled on his party’s tax policy yesterday. ACT proposes a two-rate income tax system, with a 17.5 per cent tax rate on income up to $70,000, and 28 per cent above that. “You tell me what the gap should be,” he added.
The major political parties agree on the importance of allocating funding to fixing substandard roads and developing new roading infrastructure. In 2017 the Ardern Government signed a “memorandum of arrangement” to develop a work plan for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) within 18 months; and in 2023 the
After three years of Covid-19 propaganda, it’s really no surprise to find people still wandering around claiming Jacinda saved us from Covid. They are Ardern’s zombie zealots, coached to wilfully ignore the science and cling to Ardern’s Covid rhetoric still thrust upon us on a daily basis.
Rt Hon Winston Peters Public Meeting Sunday 30th July Semenoff Stadium Whangarei Good afternoon and thank you for being here in such numbers. It’s great to announce the candidacy of Gavin Benney, an experienced city councillor and with many years of experience as a local police officer, with an
Six months into the top job have seen Chris Hipkins’ cabinet ministers drop like flies. Before his appointment was announced on 21 January the three cabinet ministers touted for the top job were Hipkins, Woods and Allan and now Hipkins is the last man standing. Before two months had passed
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com On and on the political commentators go, babbling sheer nonsense about the bloody polls. They shouldn’t need me to tell them; the polls do not work with politics anymore and haven’t done since the turmoil after-effect of Rogernomics which threw our hitherto political
At the 2020 election the Greens proposed a wealth tax. I remember being horrified that, if Labour needed the Greens to govern, they might make the introduction of a wealth tax one of their bottom lines. While we had often discussed a capital gains tax, this was the first time
Duncan Greive, on 14 June 2023, attended a political meeting with Grey Power and NZ First and said: To make it back into Parliament, he (Winston Peters) will likely need to find a way to turn their fury into votes. Greive, the founder of the left-wing The Spinoff, was surely
Winston Peters has announced Casey Costello as a New Zealand First candidate. Casey has been a spokesperson for Hobson’s Pledge for the last seven years and has been instrumental in pushing back against an agenda of race-based division that is being used to distract New Zealanders for the real
