Ruth Richardson re-emerging to lecture New Zealand on economic policy – and even manoeuvering to unseat Finance Minister Nicola Willis – is a reminder of how some political ideologues simply cannot let go of the past, no matter how much damage their ideas caused.
Geoff has spent years waging a one-man war on crumbling roads, bureaucratic inertia and the maddening gap between what officials promise and what actually gets fixed.
Erika Whittome filed this matter in an effort to get transparency and accountability for the people of New Zealand because there appears to be a new allegiance to Pfizer’s commercial interests, instead of transparency to the New Zealand people.
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Former Invercargill and Waitematā mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt has died at age 78. Sir Tim, who was awarded the Knight Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2019 New Year's Honours List, served eight terms as Invercargill Mayor between 1993 and 1995, and again between 1998
