Anyone who takes the two polls released this week seriously needs to have a rethink. To have a poll on a new PM when all he has done of note is to gaze over a drenched Auckland from a chopper is patently ridiculous. In terms of sorting out the mess
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Monday night’s opinion polls answered the big question of whether a switch of prime minister would really be a gamechanger for election year. The
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Chris Hipkins has announced his cabinet reshuffle. Non-performing ministers have been axed, but the real take away from the re-shuffle is that Labour’s talent pool has proven to be rather shallow. Senior MP Andrew Little has been demoted and lost his health portfolio while Chris Hipkins has
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John Maunder The “weather bomb” which brought widespread destruction and the loss of lives and record rainfalls in the Auckland area of New Zealand during the January 27 -31, 2023 period was in part (together with a third La Nina event in three years, and much warmer sea temperatures), the
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Michael “River of filth” Wood has gone up the rankings from sixteen to seven and has been given a brand new made-up position by PM Chris Hipkins who has anointed him the Minister for Auckland. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access
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David Seymour ACT Party Leader Former Education Minister and now Prime Minister Chris Hipkins must front up and explain the poorly communicated overkill decision to close every Auckland school. Mayor Wayne Brown has been smashed for late decision making and poor communication during the Auckland floods. The Prime Minister is
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Timothy Welch Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning University of Auckland We’ve built our cities to be vulnerable to – and exacerbate – major weather events such as the one we saw in Auckland on Friday. While almost no city in the world could fully escape the effects of four months’ worth
