ACT Party “Labour blamed the housing crisis on foreigners and the tax system, but its excuses are evaporating, and now it has no idea how to solve the problem,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “According to Labour, people with Chinese sounding names were to blame, but experts have found the
Housing Liam Dann (Herald): House price surge just getting started – Westpac Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Social pressure from renters may force Govt to implement wealth tax: Westpac Michael Cullen (Stuff): Time for a monetary policy rethink Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Reserve Bank fuelling housing boom with printed money says former Finance Minister
Chris Hipkins Masks will need to be worn on all public transport in Auckland and in and out of Auckland and on domestic flights throughout the country from this Thursday, Minister for COVID-19 Response Chris Hipkins said today. “I will be issuing an Order under the COVID-19 Response
She who must be obeyed, ‘The Covid Queen’, has spoken again from the podium of truth and given commuters another reason to not use public transport. A Government order compelling people to wear face masks on public transport in Auckland and planes nationwide will come into effect on Thursday. Prime
covidplanb.co.nz Covid Plan B has welcomed the Government’s decision not to over-react to cases of people testing positive to COVID-19 by starting another lockdown. Simon Thornley, spokesperson for the group, says the Government appears to finally be adapting its strategy to new information about ineffectiveness
In 2007 Hamilton City Council began public consultation on a new subdivision, known after the local farming family who owned large tracts of the land as the Peacocke Growth Cell. The process begins with a “structure plan” to show the general development zones and principal infrastructure. My feedback at the
It is interesting to reflect on the changing philosophy of Jacinda Ardern. I guess a good place to start is early 2008 when she was elected as the President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. This is the organisation Ardern was addressing when the managed to utter the infamous
Call me cynical, but it seems to me that our political history has shown us that referendums are nothing more than a tool in a government’s toolbox. If the will of the people matches the intentions of the government then they can claim they are giving the public what
Housing Henry Cooke (Stuff): If it wants to fix housing, Labour needs to get out of its defensive crouch Bernard Hickey (Stuff): Millennials suffer as old generals fight the previous war Tracy Watkins (Stuff): What happens when the only way for housing seems to be up? Steven Joyce (Herald): It’
Now that they are not an actual coalition partner in the new government, the Greens are using this opportunity to become unmuzzled. They have decided to go back to the idea of wealth taxes. Perhaps James Shaw is blowing his wealth tax horn because of his massive gaffe over the
Having an absolute mandate comes with a price. This article from RNZ illustrates why. The Labour Party has just swept to the most convincing election victory New Zealand has seen in a generation. But with many of the party’s own preferences now lying dead in the water after failed
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last year Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was the guest speaker at a private gathering in New York hosted by Bill and Melinda Gates. She told the audience that under her administration New Zealand had taken a lead and embedded the United Nations Agenda 2030 into
ACT Party “The latest Covid community case is more evidence that the Government runs on smiles and slogans,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “How is it that a financially struggling media which operates on the smell of an oily rag was able to alert people at The Vincent Residences there
The National government set up the Rules Reduction Taskforce which received over 2,000 submissions from across the country. Their findings were released in the Loopy Rules Report in 2015. “New Zealanders are fed up wasting time and money trying to work with loopy rules” it begins. “Everyone we heard
We are told the latest coronavirus case is linked to the Defence Force cluster. That’s as may be but the real cluster in all of this appears to be the Government itself. From the ‘hard and early’ joke, its handling of the virus has been hopeless. This latest case
