After questioning in Parliament today it’s clear Revenue Minister David Parker has no idea how his interest deductibility policy will work, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “Minister Parker was asked some basic questions such as how many people will be affected by his new policy and how
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has done nothing to prioritise the wellbeing of frontline corrections officers facing an increasing number of assaults from prisoners, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Under Mr Davis’ watch prisoner assaults on corrections officers have increased by 92 per cent. The Minister’s response to
The Taxpayers’ Union have noticed that the only way to get the Prime Minister to do anything is to get a child to write to her. We agree and have taken on a new volunteer to help our readers to get their concerns read by the Prime Minister. Send your
A parliamentary inquiry would finally give a voice to the desperate migrants who feel unheard and ignored by Jacinda Ardern and her Government, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. National is calling for Parliament’s Education and Workforce Select Committee to open an inquiry into the migrant issues created
Free Press ACT Party There’s something blowing in the wind, and it’s not friendly to the Government. Two weeks ago they were in trouble over Australian travel. There’s just no way to explain why quarantine-free travel has been one-way for so long. Why are we
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today the Government will try its usual trope that ‘we’ve all worked really hard, and Australian travel is a reward for our sacrifice,’ but the public should look right through them,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “A Government that treated New Zealanders like
Last Thursday, April 1st, Dr Bryce Edwards, political analyst in residence at Victoria University of Wellington, ruffled the very considerable plumage of species Iratum dominae – better known to us as Megan Woods, Minister of Housing, earning him a personal rebuke: Arousing Woods’s ire was Dr Edwards’s column for
Mental health crisis Kyle MacDonald (Herald): Jacinda Ardern has failed us on mental health – and it’s only going to get worse (paywalled) Henry Cooke (Stuff): ‘A lot of data and negative statistics’: Inside the battle behind dramatic edits and huge delays to a Government mental health report Tess McClure
The National Party wants to see the law changed so that Kiwis can have their unfunded chemotherapy drugs administered in DHBs and cover the cost of this, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “At the moment cancer medicines unfunded by PHARMAC can only be administered in expensive private
Lawmaker effectiveness is something that never seems to be measured in New Zealand although I’m not sure why. It certainly is something that is measured regularly in the USA. The Center for Effective Lawmaking, based at the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University, is a non-partisan group tasked
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com The story on Thursday’s front page of the Herald (our Nervous Chihuahua) about a revival of the project to build light rail from central Auckland to the airport encapsulates much that is wrong with this government. Yesterday, the two MPs for Mt Roskill, one former
A letter from Billy: We’ve set up an email address so you too can submit letters to the Prime Minister. We will format your letter in a suitable child-like font, perhaps make it look like crayon, so she will read it, then we will publish it and send
It is extremely troubling when you feel that April Fool’s is no longer relevant, as things that happen on a daily basis make the average April Fool’s joke look fairly bland. The biggest April Fool’s joke of course was Siouxsie Wiles winning New Zealander of the Year.
