It seems that Blind Freddy was right, and yet again the government was wrong. The much-vaunted and highly advertised Hamilton to Papakura slow train through the Waikato is a massive flop: It’s been a slow start for passenger numbers on the new Hamilton to Auckland train, with only a
The Immigration Minister has defended the lack of migrant workers, saying the Government’s doing everything it can. Fruit growers claim there are hundreds of millions of dollars worth of produce going to waste, and they can’t last another year without more seasonal workers. […] Minister Kris Faafoi told Mike
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Prime Minister should take some personal responsibility when things go wrong, instead of throwing members of the public under a bus.” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has extreme powers to keep us safe from COVID, but the Prime Minister is not
We are all sick of this Government infantilising issues and speaking to us all like children. They’ve gone full retard now in releasing a new update for their snitch app: The NZ COVID Tracer app has a number of new features, including national statistics, a flashlight for scanning, and
A MYOB poll of 401 small to medium businesses has shown that Labour is now the preferred party of SMEs, with 38% favouring Labour and 35% supporting National. A further 5% voted ACT, while 3% supported the Greens. So overall, most businesses favour the left bloc over the right bloc,
Last Friday, at O’Connell Street Bistro, Chris Luxon met Simon Power for lunch. Lengthy discussions were held, but it is widely thought by commentators apprised of the lunch meeting that the real purpose of the lunch was for the official handing over of the FIGJAM title from the old
Former MP Catherine Delahunty says the original plan was based on gender balance – but we now need a non-binary approach. She told Heather du Plessis-Allan it’s also about who will bring a radical edge to issues. […] Delahunty says there is no reason to have a male co-leader as male
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Parliament is quite rightly this afternoon urgently debating a letter from Finance Minister Grant Robertson to the chair of Air New Zealand that has more than the whiff of Rob Muldoon about it,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I requested this debate because Grant
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ACT Party ACT Health Spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “The Prime Minister should pull Stuart Nash into line after he called a parliamentary colleague a ‘nutter’”, says ACT Health Spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Speaking on Mike Hosking’s show this morning, Stuart Nash referred to Nicole McKee as a ‘nutter’ and,
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