Everything about politics
Questions to Ministers Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: What steps, if any, has he taken to ensure the integrity of ministerial decisions in the major spending programmes announced in the previous two Budgets? CHLÖE SWARBRICK to the Minister of Finance: Will he issue a direction to ACC
Questions to Ministers WILLOW-JEAN PRIME to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy? Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in all of her Ministers? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by
The government has announced its latest raft of regulations for private landlords. Rents will only be increased once a year (instead of every 6 months, at present), and landlords will be unable to end tenancies for no reason. Yes, that’s right. You will not be able to evict a
Simon Bridges was on MagicTalk with Peter Williams yesterday and had a little bit to say about Maureen Pugh and the West Coast. Apparently the comments he made to Jami-lee Ross weren’t an accurate reflection of his feelings about her. Say what? And, that he has always had
Questions to Ministers Hon PAULA BENNETT to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in all of her Ministers? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Is he currently involved in negotiations with Auckland Council to end the land occupation at Ihum?tao? KIRITAPU ALLAN to the Minister of
You may have noticed that I occasionally republish an article on The BFD from a NZ Blog called Redline. It is a Marxist blog and it can be very interesting to see how the other side of the political divide thinks. The latest article to catch my eye caught my
The problem with oppositions is they tend to chase every passing car in the hope it gains some traction. Labour, the Greens and NZ First attacked National in 2014 for what they called ‘cash for access’ events where punters were charged hefty fees for dinners or lunches with cabinet ministers.
The ACT party is fast becoming the Free Speech party of New Zealand politics. David Seymour has withdrawn a Free Speech Bill in order to strength it further by making tertiary institutions’ funding dependant on them taking “ all reasonable steps to protect academic freedom and free speech”. No doubt this
Talk is cheap but ACT leader David Seymour has put his words into action. An organised group of Trans activists has bullied and twice now, deplatformed a feminist women’s rights group, preventing them from holding a feminist event with an overseas speaker. Initially the feminist event was going to
Leighton Baker New Conservative Party leader Leighton Baker is leading New Conservative to be the solution for New Zealanders that want personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, strong national identity and want family values to be protected. Those of us that call New Zealand home generally appreciate not
A Senior Advisor at the NZ Human Rights Commission with a political history of activism behind him…hmm
IINZ A recent petition from Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) demanded an end to small annual university prizes funded by the Israeli Embassy. The Israeli Ambassador funds two annual prizes, worth a total of $750 NZD, at Victoria University of Wellington. These are the only New Zealand scholarships funded
