It’s been a week since problems at the New Zealand border first emerged, but the cloud hanging over Health Minister David Clark’s career hasn’t lifted. It’s a big deal calling for someone to resign. Despite much jeering and jibing, the Opposition doesn’t often call for
1News has released their latest Colmar Brunton poll tonight: Labour: 50 down 9 (62 seats) National: 38 up 9 (47 seats) Greens: 6 (7 seats) NZ First: 2 Act: 3 (4 seats) Preferred PM Jacinda Ardern: 54 Todd Muller: 13 Net Approvals Jacinda Ardern: Not given in news segment Todd
A “far-left” wing blog editor with his podcast sponsored by a company that specialises in insolvency? What is wrong with this picture?
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Stop the press! One of the sectors thrown into considerable chaos by the government’s coronavirus choices is the media. First, consider the difficulties that the Fourth Estate faced
Questions to Ministers KIRITAPU ALLAN to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the international context for the New Zealand economy? Hon NIKKI KAYE to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statements yesterday that Ministers “were advised that the testing was happening twice during
EDITORIAL: The calculators and spreadsheets of finance staff in our local government offices are working overtime. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced councils to rewrite their annual plans and recalculate their proposed average rates increases for the 2020-21 financial year. It’s a momentous task they will be scrambling
The debacle that is the light rail project up Dominion Road has been electrocuted. The hoped for Streetcar named Desire is no more and it appears it is thanks to Winston Peters. Well, I’ll happily stand first in the queue to thank him. If ever there was a dumb
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com With the public’s broad support, in the face of the COVID threat, the government closed down New Zealand, imposing a dictatorial control regime to an extent unprecedented in our history. That said, every measure they took copied to the letter what was being done
Patricia Deen Spokesperson Embassy of Israel in Wellington Wellington, 24 June 2020 The concern expressed in the New Zealand Government press release of 23 June 2020 is based on a prediction, however no official Israeli decision has been made or action plan has been taken regarding the issue of concern.
Rt Hon Winston Peters Deputy Prime Minister Foreign Affairs 23 JUNE 2020 Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters today expressed the serious concern of the New Zealand Government about the proposed annexation by Israel of parts of the West Bank. The comments are in advance of the 1 July date set
Winston Peters has again said no to wasteful and silly spending, this time it is the light rail project that Labour promised would be completed by 2021, but so far hasn’t had a single rail tie laid. The Government has conceded its flagship transport has been put on ice,
If you had asked me last week whether or not I thought the Government would go full term, then I’d have said yes. Now, I’d hedge my bets, but say the likelihood of an earlier election has passed a greater than 50% chance and is likely heading towards
#Brutal pic.twitter.com/FjbEYxGJv8 — Tova O’Brien (@TovaOBrien) June 24, 2020
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Information Parody I beat Covid19 but the National party let it back in. pic.twitter.com/CefmAFy49v — Jacinda Ardren (parody) (@JacindaArdern_0) June 20, 2020 I will be resigning this afternoon. The Team of 5 Million let me down. I have not been on a holiday for over 3 months.
