NZ Transport Agency, now called Waka Kotahi, has released a report that proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the SkyPath proposal is essentially a dead duck. The Auckland Harbour Bridge is so stuffed that they are now talking about reducing traffic on it. Auckland’s ageing Harbour Bridge can’
Bethan Greener Massey University My research lies in the area of international security. Books include The New International Policing (2009), Internal Security and Statebuilding: Aligning Agencies and Functions (with W.J. Fish in 2015) and an edited collection Army Fundamentals: From Making Soldiers to the Limits of the Military Instrument
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In a show of shrewish squawking that seems strangely at odds with her endless prattle about “kindness”, Jacinda Ardern has repeatedly publicly berated her Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, on policy differences ranging from climate change to deporting NZ-born crims from Australia. It is the latter that has inspired Ardern’
Nicola Willis had a good day in Parliament yesterday exposing Megan Woods‘s diabolical community housing claims. Nicola also had this to say on Facebook. “The Government is continuing its habit of fudging housing numbers and to quote Scott Figenshow, Community Housing Aotearoa chief executive Scott Figenshow, “The Government had
Chris Sellars Just because it sounds ugly and depressing, doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Once only the domain of cowards and fools the obviously false ‘choose your own truth’ paradigm has gone mainstream and is now even sanctioned in Acts and Statutes. My goal though is at odds
Housing Luke Malpass (Stuff): Government’s slow crawl on housing continues Jason Walls (Herald): ‘Kiwis can’t outbid K?inga Ora:’ Government grilled over $750 million house-buying bill Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): Auditor-General investigates MSD scheme which paid landlords $3k per week for ‘uninhabitable’ houses Stuff Editorial: A clue
The future of Auckland’s light rail looks bleak after the new Transport Minister confirmed the Government has basically gone back to the drawing board on a project that was supposed to be delivered this year, National’s Transport Spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. The only progress Michael Wood could confirm
National is welcoming the Finance Minister’s realisation that he needs to take action to address the housing shortage, but is worried about how long it took him to have this revelation, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “Directing the Reserve Bank to factor the impact on housing into
The entitlement attitude of “El Woko Loco” aka Ricardo Menendez-March gets worse as more details come out. I suspect there is loads more to come on this rather stinky story: Green MP Ricardo Menendez-March’s emergency application for an MIQ room was one of “only a couple” that
Dhuni Information Satire (Trigger warning: this is satire) So much has happened in the last few weeks. First there is the renewed game of Sindy Says. #EveryoneLovesPlaygroundGames #There’sOnlyOneSindy #ThereIsNoOptingOut #TeamOfFiveMillion At 9am Queen-Sindy said the parade must go on. #QueenSongsAreTheBest #Don’tStopMeNow #OpticsAreQueen At 8 pm Kind-Sindy
Questions to Ministers 1. DAVID SEYMOUR to the Minister for COVID-19 Response: What advice, if any, has he received this year on the policy of varying quarantine arrangements for travellers arriving into New Zealand depending on the risks associated with their country of origin, such as has been put
Ashley Church israelinstitute.nz In March 1947, US President Harry Truman enacted an Executive Order which required all federal employees to be screened for ‘loyalty’ as a way of rooting out those who would seek to ‘alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means’. The move
Dear Ashley Bloomfield and PM Jacinda Ardern, Whenever we, as the New Zealand public, receive information from the Beehive or the Ministry of Health or from scholars, it is always touted that our authorities or esteemed scholars are following the science to keep us safe, and obviously we would like
