Housing Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): D-day for the Government’s plan to fix housing, with few easy options Rachel Sadler (Newshub): ‘Radical’ change needed to tackle New Zealand’s severe housing deprivation – political commentator David Hargreaves (Interest): Govt housing changes ‘won’t address the central problem in the housing crisis’
ACT Party What to make of the Government’s announcement of an announcement? After Cabinet yesterday, the Prime Minister told us when the much-anticipated Aussie Bubble will be announced, in nearly three weeks’ time on April 6th. It is what you’d expect from a leader whose main expertise
The Taxpayers’ Union has made a video of the Rod Stewart performance Tourism NZ spent the best part of a million dollars making. Judge for yourself if it was worth the money:
National Party National Leader Judith Collins Yesterday, the Prime Minister had a chance to do the right thing and announce a date when the trans-Tasman safe travel bubble will be open. She chose not to. Instead, she announced that she will soon announce an announcement of a date. You
You really have to hand it to Jacinda Ardern: she’s brilliant at announcing things. Yesterday she announced that she will announce the date of the start of a trans-Tasman bubble on April 6. I kid you not. Watching Stuff‘s commentary tells a story in itself. Waffle, prevarication,
There are all kinds of political rumours, but they don’t get much bigger than: “The PM is about to resign.” […] What would happen, I asked myself, if the PM made it clear to her Cabinet colleagues that she was no longer willing to play it safe; that, having made
New Zealanders are being let down by a Government that talks a lot about delivering a trans-Tasman bubble but keeps falling short, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “The time for excuses and delays is over. It’s time for action on the trans-Tasman bubble. “Our tourism
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s simply not good enough for the Prime Minister to treat the media like five-year-olds and tell them there are ‘layers of complexity’ ‘which I won’t bore you with now’ behind why she can’t say more about a trans-
With Skypath looking dead in the water, some of the $240 million set aside for it in ATAP should be redirected towards detailed design, planning and other preparatory work for a second harbour crossing. “It’s been clear for a while that Skypath wasn’t going to get off the
More than 42,000 people are backing National’s call for a safe trans-Tasman travel bubble to open, National’s Covid-19 response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Government can’t delay this any longer. Anything less than an announcement today on a hard-and-fast April start date
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “For some reason the Prime Minister is trying to talk down expectations of substantive movement on quarantine free trans-Tasman travel at Cabinet today, when she’s got every reason to be talking it up,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “First, the Prime Minister
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Senior Labour Government Minister Damien O’Connor’s comments about the tourism sector are appalling and offensive, National’s Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay says. “Mr O’Connor said Covid-19 had taught the tourism sector to ‘not be so cocky’. “His comments are tone deaf and out of touch with
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
Last week it was revealed that Labour have spent an unbelievable 86 million dollars in the year to December 2020 on emergency housing, creating the best financial year in decades for the fleapit motels that have thrown away their reputations and dignity to suck on the government’s teat. Worse
