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Questions to Ministers 1.Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements, policies, and actions? 2.Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements, policies, and actions? 3.WILLOW-JEAN PRIME to the Minister
**The sole member of the Orakei Local Board to vote against the allocation of these grants was Carmel Claridge. From the Mayor’s office right down to local boards, wasteful spending is rife at Auckland Council. The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance has revealed that the council are now paying for Remuera
I’ve written many times about the sense of déjà vu I frequently get when observing New Zealand politics. It might be some comfort to readers to consider the parallels between Jacinda Ardern and Kevin Rudd (remember that guy?), but there is another depressingly familiar narrative emerging. Despite the fact
The Green Party published an advert mocking Simon Bridges and his accent. The Green Party has deleted an ad attacking Simon Bridges because its members were not happy. The ad paints National Party leader Bridges as a used car salesmen at “Simon’s Imports”, using old footage of the National
By John The piece from Chris Trotter on Incite Politics, It’s Winston ‘The Tool Man’ Peters was an interesting but somewhat confusing read. I got the logic of where he was coming from but in my view, the narrative was not supportive of it in terms of the reality.
I always thought that Heather du Plessis Allan was a bit of a Jacindaphile, but she has been known to criticise our dear leader on occasions. Her recent Australian trip was one such occasion, and Heather has pointed out something that most of us probably would not have picked up.
In response to criticism from law-abiding gun owners of the CoL’s latest brain fart of creating a National Gun register, the PM has changed tack. “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says a proposed gun register isn’t about law-abiding firearms owners, but rather the people who steal them.
We have been saying it on the blog for some time. This government is crashing what was, only a short time ago, a very well managed economy. The signs have been there for a while, but one of the most worrying aspects of recent times is that interest rates are
The ‘Collins threshold’ has now been reached. The ‘Collins threshold’ is the number to trigger a leadership spill if National dropped below 40% in the polls. UMR’s latest polling has National slipping two percentage points from June’s 40% to 38%. Worse still is the left-right gap, which
Part Four: Why does good government matter? New purpose in the public service But let’s be honest, our wellbeing challenges cannot be solved in one Budget – or even ten. Public investment is a powerful lever for change, but it’s only one. We also need to embed the idea
Jacinda Ardern’s brief visit to Australia might have steamed up the knickers of the media-elite, but she had rather less success in winning over either side of Australian politics. Ardern’s self-righteous parroting of right-on open borders nonsense plays well to the media peanut gallery, but
Part three: Why does good government matter? The broader view: wellbeing economics This year, in New Zealand, we introduced our first Wellbeing Budget. We didn’t abandon the previous approach to public finance. We widened it. We said not only “What will be most conducive to economic growth?” but also,
Why does good government matter? Part Two: Inequalities past and present We can start with the state of many developed economies. While they continue to grow in overall economic terms (if not as quickly as they once did), they have too often failed to share the benefits of that growth.
