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Is this the same Phil Goff who served in both the Lange and Clark neoliberal governments?

Yesterday’s cabinet reshuffle in which Phil Twyford was moved sideways is at least some recognition by the Ardern government that their housing policy is failing. So if they’re looking around for some fresh ideas here’s my quick and busy Facebook Fix for Friday suggestions .

David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill passed it’s second reading yesterday. It now goes to the Committee of the Whole House where all members of Parliament consider it part by part and have the chance to debate it in detail.

I heard Finance Minister Grant Robertson say on Morning Report today that he ” wasn’t expecting another financial crisis any time soon”.

Well, he and his advisors may not be expecting it, but surely one of the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis was that being so locked into maintaining ‘business as usual’ means we often fail to ask whether the usual way of doing business is the BEST way of doing it.

Deciding whether or not to step into the character changing booth is another one of those questions that can peel back the layers of your attitudes, opinions and beliefs once you start to unpack it.

I’m really not a fan of the American Army, however there is one thing about it I do quite like. The top General is paid about 10 times the salary of a Private.

Whatever machinations went on behind the closed doors of the ANZ last week that has led to the departure of David Hisco ( the highest paid CEO of any bank in our country) it seems the Bank boss’s inflated sense of entitement played a role in his downfall.

Key said an internal investigation begun three months ago in Australia by group chief executive Shayne Elliot in Australia covering multiple senior executives had revealed “anomalies”, which the ANZ New Zealand board were told about three months ago.