A more direct approach will be needed to get the sector back on track: trimming the bureaucracy and operations to ensure council rate increases are no greater than the rate of inflation, instigating debt repayment plans and undoing the grip of tribal interests would be a good start.
The Greens’ clown show and circus act staggers on for a few more weeks. Reports show supermarkets are having a run on popcorn.
Chris Bishop and Shane Jones took a good idea and turned it into a dog’s breakfast.
“He’s telling energy companies, ‘don’t come here, don’t invest in exploration, don’t tap into local deposits, because if you do, we’ll shut you down’.”
It’s hard to believe the former Director General of Health again is promoting a harmful substance and threatening those who do not comply.
It’s possibly just a coincidence that the reforms that the new minister has now implemented are the same as the various lobbying documents advocate, but there’s plenty of room to reasonably speculate about the linkages.
Chris Hipkins doesn’t know what a woman is but apparently he DOES know for sure that Māori didn’t cede sovereignty.
Reply to Down to Earth Kiwi from David Parker, former Minister of Environment and Attorney General
There are ongoing attacks on our fundamental rights – be these free speech, freedom of belief, and even freedom of association. Be it in the UK or Australia, the US or NZ, the dynamics are the same.
Findings and recommendations of the Inquiry into Equity and Fairness in Policing.
The power to send applications to the expert panel will now be concentrated in the Office of the Minister of Infrastructure, Chris Bishop. Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and Transport Minister Simeon Brown will lose their power.
Chris Hipkins is chasing passing cars again. Now he looks like a complete fool, because this judge actually is a communist.
Recently published research indicates that such a position is no longer in any way morally defensible. It is time to speak out freely and correct public misperceptions about mRNA vaccine safety and efficacy.
Free speech begins at home. It begins with countless individuals making countless individual choices to speak their minds and allow others to speak theirs – even, if necessary, to defend to the death their right to do it.
