Luxon cuts tourism promotion funding to give Brown his Bed Tax
A major funding shift will see local councils pocket tens of millions of dollars previously destined for nature and tourism promotion.
Instead of introducing a...
Bringing back Muldoon
As the full implications of the Government's resource management changes sink in, it is becoming clear that they mark a return to Muldoon-era-like central...
Report contradicts Government denials
The Climate Change Commission yesterday confirmed what farming leaders and the Agriculture Minister have been denying for some time.
On current settings, farming will not...
Not quite a panic, but close
All the evidence suggests that the decision yesterday to withdraw the proposal to sell Department of Conservation land was a last-minute decision led by...
Sellout or saviour? Potaka’s controversial DOC plans
Forest and Bird, the Labour Party and luminaries like Helen Clark have mounted a full-on campaign against the Government over its proposals to revamp...
Why the Nats are putting the boot into NZ 1st
Finance Minister Nicola Willis wasted no time yesterday putting the boot into New Zealand First Minister Shane Jones over his travel expenses.
Willis was responding...
Down on the farm; a new Christopher Luxon
In what may well have been a foretaste of the election campaign, a relaxed and confident Prime Minister turned up at the Farm Field...
How DOC could bring the country together
Conservation Minister Tama Potaka believes that one-third of the country, which is the Department of Conservation (DOC) estate, can bring Maori and Pakeha together.
He...
The risk Bishop is taking
In what may prove to be one of the most difficult issues the Government faces over its resource management reforms, the Select Committee considering...
Another Clyde Dam
In a remarkable testament to how quickly people forget political stuff-ups, Energy Minister Simon Watts has invoked Sir Robert Muldoon and the Clyde Dam...
National points a greener face to Auckland
RMA reform Minister Chris Bishop, fresh from his housing intensification backdown last week, is now backing off some of his hardline rhetoric on his...
Committee calls in Upton to challenge Bishop
As Parliament's Environment Committee begins what is likely to be a big job, hearing submissions on the two new resource management bills, it has...
Committee ignores submissions and gives Bishop draconian powers
A Parliamentary Committee has ignored 95 per cent of the submissions it received on a Bill and voted to restore the type of draconian...
Bishop channels Muldoon
The Government is going back on moves it made less than a year ago to distance Ministers from fast-track planning approvals.
Using the pretext of...
Seymour’s political games
ACT’s much-publicised announcement of its climate change policy last week looks like a political stunt that has angered its two coalition partners, National and...
