TPU puts a red price tag on $880k from the Major Events Fund for a World of WearableArt exhibition. Upston sells visitors and Kiwi creativity. Major Events Fund. Minor accountability. Eight hundred and 80 thousand costumes. One line on the invoice.
Hundreds packed Unity for Hager’s Dirty Work. Election-week damp squib. The poll charts still say noise, and the day-after receipts say fiction – plus their best unpaid fundraiser.
Our children deserve an education system focused on knowledge, excellence, and opportunity – not cultural politics.
When you connect the dots between the Tamihere, Davidson, and Maipi families, a deeply troubling picture of modern Māori politics emerges.
The country is sorely in need of a leader who will grab these problems by the scruff of the neck and sort them without fear or favour. That person needs to come forward but he or she probably won’t, because no sane person would want to waste time in the bear pit of parliament.
Taxpayers’ Union Bribe-O-Meter puts Opportunity at $201 billion over four years. Another $407m Industry Energy Resilience this week. Hope has an invoice. $201 billion. Still other people’s money.
What the political rush to punish supermarkets reveals about modern campaigning.
Hipkins spent three years calling interest deductibility a tax cut for landlords. Now he keeps it and sells a capital gains tax instead. The slogan was the policy. The policy just left the room.
A well-connected new education interest group is ready to make an impact.
A response to an OIA request for a breakdown of applicants for Auckland Med School’s 2024’s intake showed the median Grade Point Average GPA for successful graduate students under general admission was 8.5; for MAPAS applicants it was 6.25.
NZ First Make NZ Healthy: prevention over medicines that manage decline and sell another Pharmac cheque. Nutrition curriculum, metabolic health, written consent, GP autonomy, Medsafe/Pharmac barriers, Vit D and IV C trials are selling a different destination.
National doesn’t need complex market interventions for a political resurgence – it needs clear, foundational principles. The party could trigger an immediate surge in the polls by drawing a permanent line under race-based funding.
