Press Release: ACT Party “The Government’s phased introduction of Alert Level 2 will be welcomed by New Zealanders who want to get back to normality, but the lack of clarity for business means that, once again, the country is ready before the Government”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour.
Audrey Young writing in the weekend newspaper headlined her article – “Ardern’s AAA team has one member – and a vital one.” Grant Robertson is the vital one and her article discusses what he has done and what he has to do. Unfortunately, Audrey misses the point – and a vital one.
Bob Edlin pointofordernz.wordpress.com We are all getting older, but some of us (according to the Minister of Health) are getting older much faster than others “Older” New Zealanders have been defined for policy purposes in a press statement that emerged from the office of Health Minister David Clark
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign We’ve started to trawl through what is a pretty damning report by the Auditor-General into the Government’s firearm buyback scheme. The full report can be found here. Here are the key takes: * The cost for administering the system blew out
Kiwis are basically good people. We care about others and we care about our country. We’re what you could describe as empathetic and house proud, to put it in the simplest terms. We tend to be a bit politically naïve and it seems we’re suckers for doing ‘the
Press Release: ACT Party * Balancing the books: Back in surplus in four years while delivering $3.1 billion of tax cuts. * A wealthier country: Less debt, lower taxes, higher growth and incomes. * Safety from future pandemics: $816 million over three years for border security, research and PPE. * Getting Kiwis back
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced New Zealand will move to alert level 2 restrictions from 11:59pm Wednesday, with a staggered reopening of businesses. RNZ political editor Jane Patterson joins Lisa Owen with the details.
Michael Reddell croakingcassandra.com Having mentioned yesterday the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Stringency Index, I was playing around with variants of this chart, tracing the responses of various governments through time. On this variant I’ve included the Anglo countries and most of the countries of western Europe. It
Around this time last year we were delivered a ‘well-being budget’. When introducing the well-being budget Ardern had this to say: It’s a reality because while economic growth is important – and something we will continue to pursue – it alone does not guarantee improvements to our living standards.
PM Jacinda Ardern is very fond of slogans and an unkind person would claim that she is all slogans and no substance. The BFD would like to turn all her slogans into a Bingo card but we need your help. BFD Photoshopper Pixy has made up a few of them
The first thing Simon Bridges should do when Parliament resumes on Tuesday is to propose a vote of no confidence in this disgraceful rabble that calls itself a Government. Things have been building since the start of the lockdown and it all came to a head on Friday with the
It’s taken me a few days to write this post as I was so bloody angry before. If I had written anything when this came out it would have simply been Marama’s favourite word, in plural, written 800 times. Quite how we have come to this point is
