Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson It is grotesque political theatre to make people wait for the budget to get their medicines funded each year. A more mature Government would have included funding in the PHARMAC review so that we have a policy to compare options of non-pharmaceutical interventions,
Budget: Benefits increase Audrey Young (Herald): If not now, then when for beneficiaries? (paywalled) Max Rashbrooke (Stuff): Labour’s years of caution are finally paying off Stuff: Editorial – Revenge on the ‘mother of all Budgets’ Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Ruth Richardson calls Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson’s budget attack a
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I move, That all the words after “That” be omitted and the following substituted: “this House has no confidence in anything this Government promises, because after just four years, its track record of failing to deliver, of broken promises, of spin over substance, and of announcements
There are several pieces of recent news that should have you worried about the government’s ability to keep a gun register safe and secure. Firstly there is the massive hack and ransom demands of the Waikato District Health Board: Clinical services across all Waikato public hospitals have been seriously
THOUSANDS of rockets have been fired into Israel at civilian targets by Palestinian terrorists, and this ‘Hamas Hugger’ – Labour MP Duncan Webb – calls Israeli retaliation (which is surgical, is aimed at military targets and warns civilians so that they have time to leave the buildings), disproportionate! Most of the women
Today’s Budget is an indictment on the Labour Government’s ability to deliver for New Zealanders, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “We are staring down losses for the next five years. We need a plan to grow the economy, to get us back in surplus sooner so
David Seymour ACT Leader David Seymour. The Government had an opportunity today to get New Zealand back on track following COVID-19, instead, its Budget makes Fawlty Towers look like a hotel with a sound management plan. This Budget does nothing for middle New Zealand, the battlers who work hard
Today’s Budget lacks the plan and ambition this country needs to grow our economy and reduce the debt burden on future generations, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “This Budget is confirmation of Labour’s inability to deliver. There is nothing in it for middle New Zealand. “It
Dear Editor I am absolutely appalled and disgusted by Te Hurihanganui and the clear aim of the Ministry of Education to instil apartheid in New Zealand. I have seen how the playbook of favouring one race over all others (at the expense of democracy) has played out in many other
Kate C. Prickett Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Kate is the Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children and a senior lecturer in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s promise of
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has been quietly moving some prisoners up the list to receive the COVID-19 vaccination without any consultation. Prisoners were all part Group 3 along with most of the general population, but a new document shows that some have been moved into group two.
Major Maori leaders have thrown in their lot with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Anti-Zionist (‘I’m not an Anti-Semite’) political and social activists who apparently have a very strong following amongst New Zealand journalists and mainstream media news sites, as well as within the Greens and NZ
Michael Bassett hbassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments The recent political poll announced at the weekend told us that Jacinda Ardern’s support, and that of
How can a polity have separate military and political wings when the political wing signs the cheques, signs off on military strategies, appoints and pays the military leaders and gives the orders to open fire or cease fire? If Israeli political leaders – as the ultimate authority that sends the Israeli
