Labour is using Covid-19 as the justification for imposing new costs on employers in the form of an extra week of paid sick leave for each employee, but the real reason is because their union mates have been applying the pressure, National’s Workplace Relations spokesperson Scott Simpson says.
There’s no question that the Police Minister’s appearance on the programme yesterday was an epic fail. And the fallout has been immense, with calls for the Minister to be sacked. I really wanted to know why she was so dead against those Armed Response Teams. What had stiffened
John Rofe Information Opinion Dear politicians, law enforcement agencies and members of the media, In my advice of 17 July 2021 I attached a 2018 letter from the Minister for Climate Change which reads like a draft mens rea defence against my then supposed allegations of fraud. My letter of
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern needs to clarify just how she measured the success of her Government’s Kahukura Mongrel Mob rehab pilot, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “Labour have been quick to claim that the pilot programme of the Mongrel Mob meth rehab programme had a ‘100 per
Bryce Edwards Political Roundup Writing in Stuff newspapers yesterday, centre-right political commentator Ben Thomas asks how much impact the protests will have on the Labour Government: “The demonstrations, in themselves, will not cause the Beehive undue worry. The makeup of the protests (however well attended) suggested few disgruntled Labour
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson The ACT Party is calling on teachers and Ministry of Education staff who feel uncomfortable being forced into Critical Race Theory training to reject it. ACT revealed yesterday that more than half of Education Ministry staff have been through a course called ‘Courageous Conversations about
The Ministry of Social Development has only just begun ‘scoping’ an information-sharing arrangement with Police to improve outcomes for Kiwis in emergency housing, despite already having the information it needs, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “For months we’ve heard police report incidents of
Both the Police Minister and the Commissioner appear either to have lost touch with reality or to be in denial. In fact this accusation could be made across the whole of government. They have lost touch because of their inability to deal with reality. Both the Minister and the Commissioner
Bryce Edwards Political Roundup It’s nearly a week since the “Howl of a Protest” took place throughout the country, and we’re still talking about the rural revolt. What are the farmers’ concerns? Are they legitimate? Has the rural-urban divide become too deep, and will any of this
When we were talking about Capital Gains Tax a few years ago, I was told by a tax specialist that there would never be enough tax revenue from the sale of only non-owner-occupied property, and that, at some point, after CGT had been introduced, it would be extended
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. Today’s multi-country condemnation of cyber-attacks by Chinese state-sponsored agencies was a sign of increasing frustration at recent behaviour. But it also
Labour was elected in 2017 and returned to power in 2020 off the back of a massive set of promises that they would solve the housing crisis that they claimed had beset the country under National. They tinkered and clucked their tongues disapprovingly and their solutions involved piling on costs
David Seymour ACT Leader Labour MP Tamati Coffey has told media a second motel is being purchased for emergency accommodation in Rotorua. $8.1 million was spent on the Boulevard Motel. That’s about double the CV, real estate agents have said it’s far more than market value. Tamati
