It’s an interesting tactic, but the National Party of New Zealand clearly believe that renters and workers won’t bother voting in the 2020 election because they are promising that if National become the Government they will remove renter rights and scrap any plan to raise the minimum wage.
When we talk about “The Government ” or “The Crown” or “Local Bodies” or “Local Government” we are actually talking about you and me and all of us – we, the People.
Behind Peters’ masterfully patriotic sales-pitch, it would seem that there has always existed a hidden but unbreakable connection to a very different New Zealand.
While a start, the bill introduced today is about risks around smoking. In the future there will need to be legislation around the risks and possibilities around vaping.
The one constant in national and local body politics is the length to which politicians go to hide the identity of their big donors. They don’t want us to know where their swags of money come from or the nod-nod, wink-wink policy promises that ensure the wealthy get what they want from the political parties they have bought.
Christopher Bishop launches National’s own second tunnel in Wellington.
Locals less than impressed.
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It’s funny how you don’t hear something until it is an outside voice saying it, because the reality is out housing crisis IS a human rights issue…
Bridges may have just found the policy that everyone will get around, handing it back to the bloody Aussies.
On Saturday the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa wrote to the Wellington City mayor and councillors urging them to withdraw a proposed resolution on anti-semitism which is scheduled to be discussed and voted on at this Wednesday’s council meeting.