Economic Development Minister Stuart Nash has fumbled negotiations with Amazon and now the billions of dollars that would’ve been spent in New Zealand will now go to the UK economy, National’s Economic Development spokesperson Todd McClay says. The extra 5 per cent rebate paid to production companies is
New Police statistics show the Auckland CBD is becoming more dangerous, with a sharp rise in serious assaults and gang violence – while the Government fails to keep up with the challenges frontline Police face, says National Party Police spokesperson Simeon Brown. “Serious assaults have more than doubled across New Zealand
Eddie Clark Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Eddie Clark joined the Law Faculty of Victoria University of Wellington in February 2015. A VUW alumnus, he graduated in 2005 with a BA/LLB(Hons). After graduation, he worked for a number of years at a leading commercial firm, specialising
Neil Miller taxpayers.org.nz Andrew Little is frustrated at the health system – again, that’s hardly news these days – but this time he has a very good point. Facing an incredibly hostile crowd of GPs at their conference, the Minister of Health said he was struggling to get his
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern likes to witter about “kindness” and New Zealand’s “team of five million”. Ardern also likes to pontificate about New Zealand’s “international responsibility”, no matter its relative size. The international chattering classes love to heap praise on Ardern for her supposed “Covid leadership”
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a fluent speaker of German and Arabic.
The Labour Party was elected in 2017 after promising to solve the housing crisis. They prated on about how only they had solutions and that housing was simply unaffordable and locking thousands out from owning their own home. The latest house price statistics show, yet again, just how hollow their
The Government must reverse its opposition to creating a new offence to apply to people who throw ‘coward punches’, says National’s Maureen Pugh. National’s Crimes (Coward Punch Causing Death) Amendment Bill would create a new offence of Assault Causing Death and would apply to those who throw cowardly
StatsNZ’s latest rental and food price index data is further proof of New Zealand’s rapidly overheating economy and the skyrocketing cost of living, National Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “The rising cost of living was made abundantly clear when StatsNZ recently released data showing inflation was now at
Yesterday Member of Parliament for Southland Joseph Mooney submitted his petition seeking allocated MIQ capacity to bring more skilled dairy farm workers into the country as the pressure of staff shortages continues to mount on farms across New Zealand. Mr Mooney launched his petition to allocate 500 MIQ spaces each
Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says the announcements from the Government around reconnecting New Zealand to the world are a step in the right direction, but speeding up and effectively rolling out the Covid-19 vaccination programme is the most important thing to do right now. “As we’ve
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s announcement about New Zealand’s post-COVID future is a step in the right direction, but New Zealanders will be asking why it has taken so long. It has taken a series of damaging polls to spur the Government into action. The Government’
