Housing 1News: Jacinda Ardern says public bears some responsibility for housing crisis after failed taxation attempts Scott Palmer (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern partly blames New Zealand public for housing crisis, Chlöe Swarbrick reacts with scathing emoji Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): If we can’t change the supply or demand for housing,
Kieran Madden maxim.org.nz Prime Minister Ardern is sitting on a shiny mountain of political capital that would, as one editorial pointed out, make Disney’s Scrooge McDuck jealous. The problem for Ardern and her Government is that those arguing for a big spend to tackle child poverty are
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As we await the Royal Commission report into the unfortunate massacre at Christchurch, some others have been digging into why, precisely, the massacre occurred. Those in the firearms community have known for a very long time that the massacre could have been avoided if Police had done even the most
Housing Bernard Hickey (Stuff): Here’s why you shouldn’t believe what you’re told about the housing market Rob Stock (Stuff): Which prime ministers oversaw the biggest house price increases? Luke Malpass (Stuff): Why this Government must finally grasp the nettle on housing Miriam Bell (Stuff): House price expectations
In these “modern times”, there is hell to pay if someone puts on black face, wears an American Indian headdress, adorns themselves with facial tattoos (if not of indigenous origin), or plays the part of someone who is not of the same ethnicity in a movie. But if you dress
It ain’t easy getting both the Left and the Right to despise you, but Oranga Tamariki boss Grainne Moss has managed to do it. Newshub understands Children’s Minister Kelvin Davis is furious with Oranga Tamariki after it failed to inform him of another damaging story about uplifting Maori
ACT Party “It is disturbing to learn that evidence from senior public servants to the Royal Commission into the Christchurch mosque attacks will be withheld in full,” says ACT Justice and Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Firstly, this was not the impression given in statements from the Commission in
As a vehicle for global transformation, and from the viewpoint of ‘progressives’, COVID is the gift that keeps on giving. We are constantly being reminded that we are on a ‘war footing’, and so have entered a political form of ‘long COVID’, set to last for years, in which the
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There is something exceedingly whiffy about all this. The Royal Commission has decided to hide all the evidence, particularly that given by ministers and civil servants: The Royal Commission into the March 15 terror attack has stamped 30-year-long suppressions on evidence given by ministers and senior public servants
The country is in massive debt and then we get this… Transport Minister commits to bilingual signs by the end of term: ‘It’s a priority’ hamp.rnz.co.nz Photoshopped image credit The BFD. Random impertinent question: So if something already has a Maori name will they put an
