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Pragmatic people they were, New Zealanders in the 1950’s. Concerned less with the consequences of bulldozing a sizeable hill into the adjacent bay to create a longer runway for the capital city’s airport than the consequences of not doing it, the Ministry of Works just went ahead carried
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Try as the government likes, they just can’t keep a good landlord down. That is because there are so few of them these days: they are a rapidly dying breed, exiting the market in droves and taking their tax free capital gains with them. But those that remain in
Mr Colourful A clickbait headline on Newshub got me watching Chloe Swarbrick talking about her cannabis referendum with the woke wombles on The Project. I suffered through it so you kind souls don’t have to ruin your days by being subjected to it. Chloe Swarbrick proves either A: politics’
1News Colmar Brunton poll Thomas Coughlan and Luke Malpass(Stuff): Spectre of Labour-Green coalition National’s worst nightmare Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour needs Greens on latest One News poll (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): Do the polls deliver a whisper of hope for National? (paywalled) David Farrar: Latest poll ————— 1News:
We’ve had two polls in two days. Both the Reid Research poll and the Colmar Brunton poll (ONCB) are now aligning and if you look at the positions of the two main parties from just a month ago it is clear there is now a trend emerging. For Labour,
The 1News/Colmar Brunton poll is out and it confirms where the numbers are, rather than the topsy-turvy Newshub/Reid Research. Labour – 47 down 1 National – 33 up 1 Green – 7 up 1 Act – 8 up 1 NZF – 1 down 1 Undecided – 11% Parliamentary seat entitlement based on these
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hobsonspledge.nz Ihumatao is perhaps the most visible race-relations shambles that the next government will have to fix. Located near Auckland Airport, Ihumatao is where activists have protested against Fletcher’s plans to build almost 500 homes on land that it bought from a private owner whose family had
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Alwyn Poole One of your senior members said to me, “I know children don’t vote,” but in New Zealand, things are a mess and the impact on the future especially for the people you are not normally seen to represent — Maori, Pasifika and the poor — is immense. You have
Press Release: ACT Party “Labour’s policy to ban stickers on fruit and plastic knives and forks is nothing more than virtue signalling that will inconvenience New Zealanders,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is classic Labour Party policy. There will be no problem definition or cost-benefit analysis.“The
Continuing on from my previous article I will look at more of Labour’s achievement claims that fail the scrutiny test. ENVIRONMENT * Passed the landmark Zero Carbon Act, with a target of zero carbon emissions by 2050. Like COVID this is elimination playtime. In terms of our emissions, so what?
Anne There’s something about a headscarf on Megan Woods that makes me laugh. Yes, terrible, I laugh. On Ardern it’s a cringe. On Nasrin, I’m upset, bewildered, angry. Nasrin’s dedication as a human rights lawyer, activist and supporter of the movement to free Iranian women of
