Nicole McKee ACT Conservation spokesperson A Government programme to carry out pest control of wallabies is costing taxpayers $685,000 per person hired. Budget documents released this week say the “cost is approximately $685,000 per job and considered low-value economic stimulus. Associated natural capital benefits should be investigated
It’s taken four years for Health Minister Andrew Little to recognise there needs to be some measuring and reporting on the performance of the health system, but indicators aren’t targets and will do little to improve health outcomes, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Holding DHBs
News that Refining New Zealand shareholders have voted to shift Marsden Point to an import only terminal adds further uncertainty to New Zealand’s energy future, National’s Energy and Resources spokesperson Barbara Kuriger says. “In four short years, Labour has upended New Zealand’s energy security and created an
David Seymour ACT Leader ACT will not stand by while the Government tries to criminalise New Zealanders for free speech. The Government’s proposed Hate Speech Laws will create a divided society and will put an already growing cancel culture on steroids. ACT has had more than 31,000 people
While the rest of the world orders hundreds of millions of extra Pfizer doses for 2022 and 2023 to be used as ‘booster’ shots, New Zealand hasn’t bothered, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. Answers to written questions reveal that ‘decisions are yet to be made’ regarding
Documents released to National reveal Treasury unambiguously told the Finance Minister the Car Tax shouldn’t be implemented, but the Government ploughed ahead with the policy anyway, National’s Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse. The documents outline a long list of concerns the Government’s lead economic and fiscal advisor had
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Comments from Health Minister Andrew Little about throwing billions at the health system with no results show he’s completely out of his depth. In a Newsroom article today Little says “So, what I’m saying is how can we possibly
As with ethics, so with principles, of which Groucho famously quipped: “If you don’t like them, I have others.” Whereas our betters at ‘Red Radio’ have none, it seems, their moral compass all awry as they happily engorge themselves, salivating over stolen information last week, mountains of it. Personal,
From a MOE e-mail sent to all staff yesterday by the Secretary for Education. […] [redacted] exemplified the importance and the strength of leadership when asked by the Committee, what stops other schools from not achieving for its Maori students, he said “they just need to make Maori achievement the
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Submission on Natural & Built Environments Act (Exposure Draft) August 2021 Overview 1. I would have liked to help refine a Bill that would comprehensively puncture our catastrophic
It is amazing the things that Jacinda Ardern claims she never knew anything about. Yesterday saw yet another unbelievable claim, that she didn’t know about a special exemption being made for a billionaire Google mogul and his child to come to New Zealand: Billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page
Labour Campaigns Team In 1937, Labour built the first state house, and since then our Party has worked tirelessly to provide more public housing, so more New Zealand families have a place to call home. Today, we hit another massive milestone in our public housing programme, and we wanted to
Wednesday, Government Labour Party members, the Green Party and the Maori Party voted down my motion in the Maori Affairs Select Committee that the Committee receive a briefing on the He Puapua report from its authors, National’s Treaty Negotiations spokesperson Joseph Mooney says. “A Declaration Working Group (DWG) was
The Labour Government’s interest deductibility change is another broken tax promise that will cost mum and dad property investors $800 million, says National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. Budget documents released today show that Treasury estimates the revenue gain would be $800 million. “The Government claimed that removing the
