Everything about politics
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT Andrea Vance (RNZ): New poll delivers hung Parliament, bad news for Christopher Luxon as preferred PM Luke Malpass (Post): The Post/Freshwater Strategy Poll: There was no honeymoon, just high prices and a recession (paywalled) Simon Wilson (Herald): The Government’s year:
The opaque and constrained nature of the commission itself suggests that mistrust is still warranted. Why would a government set such limited terms of reference if there was nothing to conceal?
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards LABOUR Andrea Vance (Post): ‘We aren’t feral’: Just how can Chippy soothe Labour losers? (paywalled) Vernon Small (Post): Can Labour win on tax when it has failed before? (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Chris Hipkins tells Labour NZ needs it to change – can it?
Voters they can put a party into government, but not into power.
KiwiRail are trying to keep a consultancy bill secret: it must be astonishingly huge and embarrassing.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards COVID-19 INQUIRY Russell Palmer (RNZ): Health sector cuts: Michael Baker sounds alarm on job losses after Covid inquiry Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): A Covid inquiry ends and another begins Luke Malpass (Post): The Covid inquiry that did what it was asked (paywalled) ODT Editorial: Measured
With the release of the first part of the Covid Inquiry we can now acknowledge what many of us already knew...that Ardern’s regime was cruel...and wrong.
The video was widely mocked by critics noting the vice president’s tired and somewhat rattled appearance, with some going so far as to question whether she was under the influence of alcohol.
The minister says let this serve as a notice that the government has decided: marriage is defined as being between a male and a female.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT Fox Meyer and Laura Walters (Newsroom): Official concerns about haste and dearth of evidence in Govt’s first year Virginia Fallon (Post): Lost at sea: a curious case of missing consultation (paywalled) Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Poll results: Who does NZ think is in
In Westminster systems, the courts are supposed to act as apolitical arbiters of existing laws. David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill has highlighted a profound tension at the heart of our democracy.
