Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards RMA Anneke Smith (RNZ): RMA overhaul: Government seeks common ground with opposition Thomas Coughlan (Herald): RMA reform: Government promises overhaul of zoning rules, end to councils’ tight control of development with $14.8b in benefit (paywalled) RNZ: Christopher Luxon reveals Resource Management Act reform
Winston Peters pours cold water on immigration changes and highlights key points.
We have a God-given duty to protect children. Not just your own kids but all kids. They need a childhood. They need to grow and mature. They need to be safe and protected.
No wonder 31 per cent of women in New Zealand are struggling with their mental health.
The reaction of many in legacy media and politics to efforts by Jim Grenon and others to change the board of NZME is rather telling, hypocritical even.
Why challenging Donald Trump’s executive authority in the courts is unlikely to end happily.
Labour’s Hipkins and Otago VC Robertson must be held to account.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards NZ FIRST Tim Murphy (Newsroom): The State of Winston Peters Thomas Coughlan (Herald): NZ First: Winston Peters has a lot of thoughts about Labour (paywalled) Giles Dexter (RNZ): No love lost as Peters and Hipkins trade barbs Richard Harman (Politik): Winston Peters – political contortionist
There was all the appearance of a real catastrophe surrounding the school lunches issue but it was all just a manufactured crisis by the media, the teacher unions and the Labour Party. The stats prove it.
Perhaps his boss might like to take a leaf out Simeon Brown’s playbook, starting with growing a spine.
NASA’s return to Wānaka marks the sixth super pressure balloon campaign held in New Zealand since the agency began balloon operations there in 2015.
There has been much hand wringing out of the false premise that rail can only succeed with rail-enabled ferries. This is not the case.
Someone needs to do something big and bold and they need to do it right now, because current polling suggests that, if they don’t, they will be New Zealand’s first one-term government in 51 years.
