With the latest labour market statistics confirming wages have only increased 2.1 per cent compared to 3.3 per cent annual inflation, New Zealanders’ pay packets are being eaten up by the rising cost of living, says National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. “The improving employment figures are welcome
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Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson Treasury’s fantasy forecast of flatlining house prices are already out of date. In fact, house prices reached levels Treasury predicted in three years after just three months. The CoreLogic House Price Index shows house prices have outstripped Treasury’s forecasts. “At Budget 2021,
Labour is set to break yet another of its housing promises with the number of first-home buyers getting First Home Grants on track for a record low, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. In April his year the Prime Minister New Zealanders more than 12,000 additional first-
Newly-released DHB plans show the Labour Government is planning to break its promise that everyone eligible in New Zealand will be offered a Covid-19 vaccine by the end of the year, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Last night, the Ministry of Health quietly uploaded
Brooke van Velden ACT Trade spokesperson Comments this morning from Building and Construction Minister Poto Williams that the Government is considering limiting wood exports to keep construction materials from going offshore, will send a shiver down the spine of many businesses. Why would you invest in your business, if the
Free Speech Union The Kiwi public has responded loud and clear to the Government’s questions raised in the consultation document on proposed hate speech changes: they don’t want the Government policing their speech, says Jonathan Ayling, Campaign Manager for the Free Speech Union. “More than 10,000 kiwis
“The devil is in the detail” is an idiom that is believed to be derived from “God is in the details”, attributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The original connotation was that whatever one does should be done thoroughly, and truth (if any) is in the details. So turn
Information Satire Labour Government Explainer Editor – Exclusive During the weekly conference call to media news editors, the Minister of Groceries and Bicycle Clips, David Clark, revealed that the two ‘competing’ supermarkets would be rolled into one and nationalised under a new ministry, Kaihoho Aotearoa. “The two supermarkets are a duopoly,
The two most recent polls are good news for the right of centre parties in the sense that both show the gloss is coming off Ardern and Labour. The slide is on and, like Mallard’s one in Parliament’s grounds, it could prove to be expensive. In further good
It pains me to say this, but someone has to: while it’s good that the National Party has unveiled a billboard campaign aimed at the public headed “DEMAND THE DEBATE”, this coming weekend I will be at our Annual Conference and General Meeting, where at the time of writing
In recent months former National Party cabinet minister Chris Finlayson has taken an increasingly hostile and acerbic attitude in public towards the National Party. Now we know why. Hon Chris Finlayson QC and Claire Szabo have been appointed as new members of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Te Tira Puoro
David Seymour ACT Leader The Australian Prime Minister has called the Delta variant a game-changer. Chris Hipkins agrees and told Parliament yesterday that contact tracing wouldn’t be able to contain it. But what sort of rethink has the Government done in light of the Delta variant? It appears
National is on board with the core intent of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill, however, we would need to see an amendment in order to support it, National’s Justice spokesperson Simon Bridges says. “Minister Kris Faafoi’s interview with Heather du Plessis-Allan in which he was unable to
Grant Robertson seems to have performed a reverse ferret on the announced bike bridge that Michael Wood was pushing so hard. He won’t commit to the bridge moving forward, using weasel words to signal that Michael Wood’s legacy project is goosed: Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson wants the
The Government’s tinkering with monetary and financial stability policy is doing nothing to address rampant house price inflation, says National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. Instead, the Finance Minister Grant Robertson is using the Reserve Bank as a scapegoat for the Government’s failure to break down the barriers
