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Date published: 10:13 am, September 12th, 2024 - 14 comments
Categories: david seymour, Judith Collins, law, Politics
Tags: attorney-general, constitutional law, royal assent, Treaty of waitangi
David Seymour finally released some hard information about Act’s coalition bone – Treaty Principles bill. The regulatory impact statement is damning and points to the status quo as being preferable. It will provide an interesting scope for Judith Collins in her non-partisan role as Attorney-General.
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Date published: 1:00 pm, September 12th, 2024 - 7 comments
It seems clear that the Government refused to do anything to stop Winston Pulp from closing its mills. And the Government’s plans to address price volatility by the use of LPG is counterproductive, especially when the cost of renewable energy is considered.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 12th, 2024 - 44 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 11th, 2024 - 4 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 11th, 2024 - 97 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 10th, 2024 - 5 comments
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Date published: 12:34 pm, September 10th, 2024 - 37 comments
Yesterday it was confirmed that Act’s Treaty Principles Bill had been approved by Cabinet for drafting and introduction into Parliament in November this year. Get ready for the circus to start.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 10th, 2024 - 49 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 9th, 2024 - 11 comments
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Date published: 10:19 am, September 9th, 2024 - 61 comments
Proposed policy for the Labour Party. New Zealand’s power system should empower the people in their lives and systems, secure electricity use and production for New Zealand in perpetuity, and make the electricity system serve New Zealand not the other way round. How do we achieve this?
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 9th, 2024 - 13 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 8th, 2024 - 25 comments
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Date published: 5:50 pm, September 7th, 2024 - 26 comments
Unions have fought for the rights of employees in the past, present, and future.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 7th, 2024 - 48 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 6th, 2024 - 7 comments
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Date published: 9:30 am, September 6th, 2024 - 31 comments
The Government has mistakenly released confidential legal advice confirming that the Charter School legislation breaches ILO conventions, free trade agreements and potentially the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 6th, 2024 - 48 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 5th, 2024 - 7 comments
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Date published: 10:37 am, September 5th, 2024 - 76 comments
Remember when Christopher Luxon told the National Party that we had a maths teaching crisis? Experts have concluded that the statement is misleading. And an OIA dump suggests that behind the scenes there is an attempt to radically rewrite the existing curriculum.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 5th, 2024 - 51 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 4th, 2024 - 17 comments
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Date published: 1:50 pm, September 4th, 2024 - 20 comments
Shane Jones has been getting into the news recently after his comment that High Court Judge Cheryl Gwyn was a communist made at a private meeting was revealed in the media. He has been called out by Judith Collins and Winston Peters but surprisingly not by Christopher Luxon.
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Date published: 9:23 am, September 4th, 2024 - 26 comments
Nicola Willis’s bungling of the Kiwirail Interislander project cancellation has so far cost Kiwis $1bn, but that’s not all. Today RNZ’s reporting reveals the government may have also undermined NZ’s relationship with South Korea.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 4th, 2024 - 69 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 3rd, 2024 - 2 comments
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Date published: 8:58 am, September 3rd, 2024 - 39 comments
The year is 2035 and after the McAnaulty-Sepuloni Government is removed from power new National Prime Minister Simeon Brown makes his first new announcement. Guess what it is?
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 3rd, 2024 - 43 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 2nd, 2024 - 12 comments
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Date published: 4:08 pm, September 2nd, 2024 - 44 comments
Yes, Labour can restore its woeful tax position.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 2nd, 2024 - 15 comments
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Date published: 9:53 am, September 1st, 2024 - 16 comments
This is going to take some explaining. The police have decided to take no action against National MP David MacLeod for failing to declare $178,394 in electoral donations. No this is not an Onion headline.
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