Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First Last year the Australian-owned banks operating in New Zealand had profits of $7.15 billion, this year it will be on track to be even more excessive because of the interest rates going up. An announcement from Labour to ‘ask the Commerce Commission’
There is one priority this election: To get this government out. They deserve a boot up the posterior and the last thing we need is three more years of their incompetence and divisive racist policies. We cannot afford this election to be a close-run thing. Those of us on the
I was asked by Paul Brennan to discuss the implosion within DemocracyNZ. Have a good listen, because these problems exist in almost all small parties. What I talk about is the over-reliance on what I call “hopium”, the rather addictive ability to suspend reality and cling to hope, because hopium
If public sentiment doesn’t change – and we still seem to have many marooned and undecided voters this close to the election – what happens if there’s no clear cut winners or parties have ruled out certain coalitions? We could have a minority government: But as [former UnitedFuture leader and
“Here is the deal – New Zealand stopped replacing itself in 2016. I encourage all of you to go out there and have more babies if you wish, that would be helpful.” It’s true, he said those words. I should know – I was the one interviewing Luxon at the time.
The ACT Party launched its election campaign in the weekend. Leader David Seymour stated that co-governance was dividing the country: He said Maori language had been “weaponised as a tool the minority forces on the majority in every forum, no matter how impractical, just to prove their political point”. “They
Dave Rennie This Government has taken New Zealand to the edge of the cliff with its plan to have tribal rule by 2040 as outlined in He Puapua. Every governing political party has made strong moves to show that the whole country can change for the better. In every government
Mike Munro, writing in the Weekend Herald, would have us believe Christopher Luxon is going to lose the election for the Nats. He obviously didn’t attend Luxon’s recent meeting in the Northcote electorate. At that meeting Luxon gave a forceful speech and handled the Q&A brilliantly,
hatchardreport.com OPINION The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has announced that the incidence of atrial fibrillation has increased by 50 per cent over the last decade. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a condition which causes an irregular and often rapid heart rate. It can lead to stroke and heart failure. The
Winston is back. As the election draws nearer we will be hearing more and more from him. It follows a familiar pattern. He is a master at manipulating the media, who will chase him down the street for a single comment. He will come out with policies designed to attract
A May Reid Research poll found 70 per cent of people believed the Labour Government is not doing enough to address falling literacy and numeracy rates. Could it be they are too distracted with “smuggling left-wing nonsense into our schools”, as ACT’s Chris Baillie has opined? A hilarious moment
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Yesterday, as part of the Wellbeing Budget 2023, the government announced the scrapping of the $5 prescription charge. This will cost $170 million annually covering around 29 million scripts. They have done this because an estimated three per cent of adults apparently do not collect their medicine
In the lead up to the budget, Chris Hipkins, in an interview with Mike Hosking, avoided most of the questions by answering along the lines of ‘only a few more sleeps to go Mike and you’ll find out’. When the big day came listening to Grant Robertson almost induced
Three months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, the government has announced a $1 billion package for transport, education and mental health. ACT called out the government: “Frustrated locals have had to wait months for funding and certainty so they can get on with their lives,” he said in a statement on
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura It’s incredible to think that this is already the 100th edition of the newsletter. It’s a good time to reflect on why I started writing these weekly updates in the first place. I was frustrated with the mainstream media for not fact-checking the
