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ACT party The government has banned something that makes negligible difference to pollution at massive cost of inconvenience, while the real problem remains unsolved. There is a real problem with plastic in the oceans but it is not caused by New Zealand. New Zealand’s contribution to plastic bags getting
*The rumours about the 757 were not true Something weird is going on. Politicians take holidays all the time, and no one bats an eyelid. Everyone is entitled to take time out with their families. July is a common time for politicians to take a break. It is the middle
No amount of subsidy is going to make an electric vehicle able tow a boat, caravan or a horse float, but penalising ute owners in order to subsidise latte-sipping elites to buy expensive electric vehicles is a surefire way to lose the provinces. The government’s proposed new feebate
A National party press release about the government’s plans to make some vehicles up to $3000 more expensive started off well by pointing out the flaws in the proposed legislation but then lost me completely when it said: National supports greening the country’s vehicle fleet. The previous Government
ACT Party ACT’s opposition to April’s rushed firearm ban is vindicated every day as the fallout of this folly continues and, sadly, our police are bearing the brunt of it. Days before the buyback is scheduled to begin with what Police Minister Stuart Nash calls ‘large public events,
The single-use government’s latest neuron-free generational moment proposal is a tax on internal combustion engines to bribe the gullible into buying un-green electric vehicles. What happened in the UK when they tried this? Did no one think to fly over to London on a fact-finding
… courtesy of the military… Jacinda, Clarke and Neve took off on holiday together on Monday, heading away for a well-earned break from all the stresses and struggles of running a country and visiting schools and kindergartens. They arrived in Rarotonga, where Clarke will use the time to film some
Rumours are flying about the current location of Wally Jacinda Ardern. Rumours have it that she has flown overseas on an Air Force 757 with friends, family and women’s magazine reporters to an undisclosed location. Someone needs to tell the woman that our air force is NOT her personal
Environment Southland who recently voted against declaring a ‘climate emergency’. The only other council to do so in New Zealand so far is Thames-Coromandel. […] It’s a relief to see some common sense after so many councils have jumped on the climate emergency bandwagon. The trend doesn’t seem
By Straight arrow The Claim: Lee said the preferred trackless tram solution for Wellington could be 10 years away. In Shenzhen, China they accomplished a fully-electric bus fleet of 20,000 buses in just two months. “In the west we tend to be quite sluggish because money is a
After the cabinet reshuffle, we learned that the waiting list for state homes had risen to 11,655 which is the highest it has been for at least a decade. The record highest number was reached back in 2004 when it went to 12,195. !function(e,t,s,i)
Tommy Robinson has asked for political asylum in the United States as he believes that he will be murdered inside prison. “In desperation, I’m making the appeal to President Trump urging him to get his lawyers and his team to look into my case. I’ve already been unlawfully
This week, Ruwan, David and Beth discuss the government’s ban on plastic bags. What will the unintended consequences be? What is ACT’s alternative? And Amazon, run by the richest man in the world, is set to film the Lord of the Rings TV show in New Zealand. But
Green candidates have said that they want Wellington to become a “plastic-free” city, and like most Green party ideas, it is big on virtue and small on joined together thinking. Retailers are the ones who are going to gain from a so-called plastic-free Wellington. Let’s just
