It’s true that you can’t choose your family, but if it includes members of an organisation that unrepentantly peddles misery and violence – and you are neither willing to denounce their behaviour nor distance yourself from them – politics is always going to be a very risky career choice.
Sensible Sentencing Trust put Swarbrick, Davidson and Hipkins under “BACKING THE GANGS”. The Greens complained. JCDecaux paused the ads. Swarbrick called it a “despicable downgrading of democracy”. The billboards rest on the Greens’ own words.
Gavoka speaks of a relationship that he regards as enduring, rooted in belief and independent of political fashion. Labour speaks as though the Pacific’s choice of partners should be filtered through the politics of Wellington.
Hipkins promised five actions at his first cabinet meeting. Labour’s own fiscal plan puts a price on two of them. For the hiring freeze, the ED plan and the price-gouging law, we found no published cost.
Calling this a defining election is a complete understatement – the stakes are far higher.
NZ Media World read a month of 1News and RNZ Midday bulletins. On its count, Opportunity got favourable treatment in 17 of 33 items. NZ First got two of 22. Te Pāti Māori got none. The party the left needs to reach 60 is the one the broadcasters like best.
Jeez, Trevor, check on the website to find out which ones are open near you.
“Greater Wellington” sues Wellington City Council and Tiaki Wai over Moa Point sewage disaster.
Williamson also goes through the marginal electorates where he says the candidate vote will decide the result.
While she fast-tracks her vision to enshrine Māori sovereignty into law, any clear thinking New Zealander can easily discern her radical blueprint would completely dismantle New Zealand’s democracy, replacing equal rights for all citizens with a divided system based on race.
The economic effects of private companies can be measured in jobs, exports, tax paid and private gifts to hospitals and community facilities. The effects of organised gang activity appear in police statistics, hospital presentations, court lists and the documented use of intimidation and extortion.
The centre-right option has many, many faults, but with economic growth finally starting to gather some momentum, we’d be crazy to put the brakes on – the way that Labour, the Greens and Opportunity want to.
A senior officer swore parliament was merely interested in Brian Tamaki. The emails she was shown, and the protests nobody chased, tell a different story.
The Greens promise $3b more for health at each of four budgets, a surplus a year later and $26.6b more debt by 2030/31, paid for with nearly $29b in new taxes. The Taxpayers’ Union says 17 other promises, worth $176.4b, are missing from the plan.
