Jordan Williams Taxpayers’ Union Hamilton City Council staff members have been visiting classrooms and harvesting submissions from children on the Council’s Maori partnership strategy, the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal. We have been contacted by a Hamilton ratepayer who was perplexed to discover the name of his 13-
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ACT Party ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Today’s housing package is all about blaming Mum and Dad investors without properly acknowledging why they’ve invested in housing – lack of supply has driven up houses prices,” says ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “This is a Government failure, plain
I’m disappointed to announce that Professor Shaun ‘80,000-dead’ Hendy’s self-penned, self-congratulatory screed published Wednesday last at Newsroom, left me feeling bitter. That’s not a nice emotion to have. Nevertheless the good professor’s column, in spite of the hubris on display, is enlightening
ACT Party What to make of the Government’s announcement of an announcement? After Cabinet yesterday, the Prime Minister told us when the much-anticipated Aussie Bubble will be announced, in nearly three weeks’ time on April 6th. It is what you’d expect from a leader whose main expertise
You really have to hand it to Jacinda Ardern: she’s brilliant at announcing things. Yesterday she announced that she will announce the date of the start of a trans-Tasman bubble on April 6. I kid you not. Watching Stuff‘s commentary tells a story in itself. Waffle, prevarication,
There are all kinds of political rumours, but they don’t get much bigger than: “The PM is about to resign.” […] What would happen, I asked myself, if the PM made it clear to her Cabinet colleagues that she was no longer willing to play it safe; that, having made
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s simply not good enough for the Prime Minister to treat the media like five-year-olds and tell them there are ‘layers of complexity’ ‘which I won’t bore you with now’ behind why she can’t say more about a trans-
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I have lived in the Greater Wellington region since 1984. I’ve always liked Wellington city. It is a compact city with good nightlife, theatres, restaurants, bars and cafes and generally a very good vibe. When I was younger, I used to go into the city at night quite often
