Judith Collins’s ascension to the National leadership is, without doubt, the biggest story in New Zealand by far – but, like most news from across the Tasman, local legacy media are slower to catch on. Especially as it’s not (directly) about their sainted socialist fairy princess. On the actual
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Judith Collins has been in parliament for a long time and I have blogged about her for the duration. Not extensively but when I agreed or disagreed with her comments. She was, after all, National’s spokesperson on Social Development from 2005-08. She once
The best job I ever had was ten years of roller coaster fun and excitement that on paper I was nowhere near equipped for. I did not have the university degrees that would be considered essential these days. My prospective employer was unfazed, saying the position required two non-academic
“U awake.” The text message that sealed Judith Collins’ political future arrived at 6.57am. Then-Prime Minister John Key had received a copy of an email which appeared to directly implicate his most powerful female minister in the Dirty Politics scandal raging during the 2014 election campaign. Before the
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National MP Judith Collins says the government doesn’t have a clear plan in place for opening New Zealand’s borders. Film workers have been allowed to fly into the capital to work on the Avatar franchise despite the borders remaining closed. And the Prime Minister has put the brakes
On the weekend both National MP Judith Collins and Green MP Chloe Swarbrick had opinion pieces published by Stuff. Both opinion pieces had the theme of change. I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast their views on our lockdown since they are so very different. One writer
Judith Collins and Willie Jackson on Garner yesterday morning. Jackson made a comment about how well Ardern speaks Te Reo and much better than Judith Collins. Not missing a beat Judith Collins says she thinks she speaks English better than Ardern (Touche) and gives her a few other good verbal
Arthur A politician interested in people’s views? OK, Ms Collins and I’ll keep it as short as possible, which is difficult on such a huge subject. 1. Anthropogenic climate change is a con, vastly exaggerated, and greenhouse theory around CO2 is basically flawed. Yes, pollution of the air
Judith Collins A thought about climate change. Politicians around the world have been calling for faster and faster action to reduce emissions. Our own Prime Minister has joined the political hype-train by announcing climate change is “my”/her generation’s nuclear-free moment. (Who made everyone under 40 “her”
Radio NZ Morning Report Corin: Well the National party says the government has broken its promise by scrapping its KiwiBuild targets. Yesterday the new minister, Megan Woods, ditched the target of building 100,000 homes over ten years saying “the pressure of meeting that target is partly to blame for
a stock of usual tactics or methods straight from his opponent’s political playbook. hmerriam-webster.com In this instance, Judith Collins is wise to avoid anything remotely connected to her opposition’s playbook, simply because their tactics don’t work for them and won’t help her either. Collins,
Question 7 – Hon Judith Collins to the Minister of Housing from New Zealand Parliament on Vimeo.
Susie: Well two major political polls this week made for grim reading for National’s Simon Bridges. Both have the opposition leader being supported by only one in 20 people and both showed there was more support for his colleague Judith Collins. Asked on morning report yesterday if she thought
Judith Collins on KiwiBuild and the polls as well as internal polling. At just after the 4min mark she makes a comment about “keeping our heads down and getting on with the job and not getting all excited about ourselves”. She talks a lot of sense.
