The Government should be feeling the pressure to lock in a Free Trade Agreement with the United Kingdom after Australia announced their deal today, National’s Trade and Export Growth spokesperson Todd Muller says. “Australia and New Zealand started negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the UK at the
Catch up on the latest in politics with our Week in Review below. * Labour’s Car tax will unfairly punish New Zealanders * National will reverse interest deductibility changes * No more excuses for the Govt’s vaccine shambles * Labour lacking action on Firearm Prohibition Orders Labour’s Car Tax Will Unfairly
New Zealand has topped the OECD in relation to housing in the worst way possible coming in at number one for Bloomberg’s real estate risk rankings, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “As if the Government hasn’t had enough wake up calls to the crisis we are
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government is showing complete hypocrisy when it comes to electric vehicles by converting less than two per cent of the Government’s fleet. The new ‘feebate’ policy punishes farmers, tradies and large families with a tax on new vehicles to subside EVs. In answer to
Graham Adams democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom Despite widespread cynicism about the Government’s ability to fulfil its promises — whether it is KiwiBuild, light
The National Party won’t sit idly by while the violence in our prisons and the number of assaults on corrections officers continues to increase, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. National has today launched a five point plan to help reduce the violence experienced in our prisons. “Under
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson and Deputy Leader Four years in, the Ardern Government couldn’t be failing harder at ‘fixing’ housing. The Real Estate Institute of NZ’s (REINZ) House Price Index (HPI) figures out today show 29.8 per cent growth in the House Price Index nationwide
Information Satire Labour Thinking Explainer Editor Minister of Finance Grant Robertson announced today that all taxation will be abolished. Speaking to the world via a group conference call through Jacinda Ardern’s monopoly media empire he laid out an historic change to government revenue gathering. “This is another world first,
Bryan Leyland Bryan Leyland MSc, DistFEngNZ, FIMechE, FIEE(rtd) is a Power Systems engineer with 60 years of experience in the industry in New Zealand and overseas. He and his wife are majority owners of a small hydropower station. Up until May 2020 wholesale prices for electricity on the spot
The latest hoo-ha attaching to our current Prime Minister is the story that there is a film to be made about the Muslim massacre in Christchurch on 15 March 2019, under the title, “They Are Us”. We know who the “They” are. And the “Us” presumably covers the rest
Eliora The National Party need to shift their ‘Tech Sector and Opportunities’ policy from fifth and make it their Number One Policy. Smart people should communicate with this huge group of tech-savvy young people who have grown up in the digital world to encourage votes for National. Last year
A victim of the dawn raids has likened the policies instituted by Norm Kirk and Labour, and the treatment of Pasifika people in New Zealand in the 1970s, as similar to what happened with the ghettoisation of “Jewish people in the Nazi era”. But the apology comes after years of
Crown and Ngai Tahu hold first post-settlement hui to discuss partnership A cohort of ministers – including Nanaia Mahuta, Megan Woods, Kelvin Davis, and Peeni Henare – were welcomed onto Ngai Tuahuriri marae in Tuahiwi, north of Christchurch, for the first post-settlement hui between Crown and Ngai Tahu to discuss
Dear Editor Can we show a little forethought and practicality? Please? Has anyone thought about it? If all cars were electric and were caught up in a three-hour traffic jam they would all have dead batteries! Then what? Not to mention that there is virtually no heating in an
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
The government has quietly broken yet another election promise, resulting in thousands of critical workers being unable to enter New Zealand and migrant families separated, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Labour campaigned at the election on establishing a 10 percent quota for critical workers in MIQ,
