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Auckland, New Zealand · AucklandIt had rained all day in Auckland, and the Metro Theatre in Mangere was steamed up inside as more and more people arrived to celebrate what had once seemed impossible. Sir Robert Muldoon had lost the 1984 election. “Piggy” Muldoon was no more. Such was the desire to get rid of him that turnout that day had been 93.7%, the highest ever recorded in a New Zealand election. As the night wore on and the extent of Labour’s landslide victory became evi…See the Story
40 years ago, inside the crisis that made modern NZ
New Zealand · New ZealandThe fundamental weakness of the waka jumping legislation is once again on display, as the Greens seem reluctant to trigger it to remove Darleen Tana from Parliament altogether. Tana has been suspended from the Greens Caucus while it had barrister Rachel Burt investigate allegations that she had been involved in migrant exploitation at her husband’s bike company. She has now resigned from the party, and in a formal statement, co-leaders Chloe Swa…See the Story
Breaking up is so hard to do
New Zealand · New ZealandA study of the 2020 election has found that though the swing to Labour was the biggest vote shift in New Zealand for more than a century, it was not structural. Indeed, the fundamental electoral forces that drove the result were not dissimilar to those that had emerged in the 2017 election. What made 2020 different was a much higher turnout, particularly among younger voters, and the widespread support and trust of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.…See the Story
How the team of 5 million lost the game
Wellington, New Zealand · WellingtonIn a move of breathtaking audacity, the Government agreed yesterday to have a Cabinet Minister preside over a media subsidy scheme. The Minister will decide which media entities will be eligible to receive the proceeds of a levy the Government proposes to impose on Facebook and Google. Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith said he expected the levy to raise between $30 and $50 million a year. The decision to have the Cabinet Minister decide whi…See the Story
Goldsmith’s media move; “unprincipled” “sop”
Greenpeace · New ZealandThe Government may have attracted criticism from Greenpeace over its inquiry into farm methane emissions, but its proposal may have outwitted the Groundswell farmer protest movement. The inquiry panel includes some of the more high-profile critics of the blanket reduction approach to farming greenhouse gas emissions. But those critics are not climate change deniers, and they do not support the idea that farmers should not be responsible for thei…See the Story
Outwitting the rural climate change deniers
New Zealand · New ZealandThe anti Three Waters campaign which seemed so simple during the election campaign is now bogged down in a Select Committee as submitter after submitter raises issues with the replacement legislation. The so-called “Local Water Done Well” has now morphed into the Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill, which is currently before the Finance and Expenditure Committee. But the Bill says nothing about how the new water entit…See the Story
The real reasons why Councils opposed Three Waters
New Zealand · New ZealandThe problems at KiwiRail go further and deeper than the maintenance issue, which caused the inter-island ferry Aratere to run aground on Saturday. The company is also the subject of a damning report published last week about the way it runs its rail operations from the Transport Accident Investigation Commission. Meanwhile, there is confusion—or obscurity—about whether the Government has actually cancelled the two mega ferries that KiwiRail prop…See the Story
KiwiRail aground while Government obfuscates
Environment · WellingtonA persistent theme has been weaving between the Committee rooms at Parliament all this so-called “Scrutiny” week as MPs have probed Ministers and agencies about their work and plans. The question has been simply what the environmental price might be if the country begins to accelerate its infrastructure building to try to stimulate economic growth. That question has been accompanied by another: Are there times when we might have to prioritise de…See the Story