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New Zealand · New ZealandIt is hard to see what Melissa Lee might have done to “save” the media. National went into the election with no public media policy and appears not to have developed one subsequently. Lee claimed that she had prepared a policy paper before the election but it had been decided not to release it. Beyond that, her few public utterances as broadcasters began to shed jobs and news programmes closed were restricted to implying that the market would so…See the Story
What did Melissa Lee do?
Infrastructure · New ZealandThe infrastructure industry yesterday issued a “hurry up” message to the Government, telling it to get cracking on developing a pipeline of infrastructure projects.The hiatus around the change of Government has seen some major projects cancelled and others delayed, and there is uncertainty about what will happen with the new local body-driven three-water projects.In a comprehensive survey of its members, InfrastructureNZ found that the hiatus an…See the Story
What is really holding up infrastructure
Winston Peters · New ZealandForeign Minister Winston Peters is understood to be planning a major speech within the next fortnight to clear up the confusion over whether or not New Zealand might join the AUKUS submarine project. So far, there have been conflicting signals from the Government. RNZ reported the Prime Minister yesterday in Bangkok as saying only that the Government was open to exploring what entry into Pillar Two of AUKUS might involve. “We’ll work our way thr…See the Story
Clearing up confusion (or trying to)
Poverty · WhangareiTurning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) has produced a study of the impact of an expressway for a consortium of Northland businesses. Its says a four lane…See the Story
Fighting poverty on the holiday highway
New Zealand · New ZealandWhile commentators, including former Prime Minister Helen Clark, are noting a subtle shift in New Zealand’s foreign policy, which now places more emphasis on the United States, many have missed a key element of the shift. What National said before the election is not what the government is doing now. It would seem that the harder foreign policy line long preferred by NZ First Leader Winston Peters has prevailed over National’s traditional suppor…See the Story
Who is running New Zealand’s foreign policy?
Conservation · New ZealandAs the public sector redundancies rolled on, with the Department of Conservation saying yesterday it was cutting 130 positions, a Select Committee got an insight into the complexities and challenges of cutting the Government’s workforce. Immigration New Zealand chiefs along with their Minister, Erica Stanford, appeared before Parliament’s Education and Workforce Committee to provide a briefing on their performance and strategic intentions. The C…See the Story
A government department that can’t cut
Farming · New ZealandThe future of farming went on the line yesterday when the Climate Change Commission presented its first review of New Zealand’s target of net zero emissions by 2050. The Commission said New Zealand’s target was unlikely to be consistent with the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of holding temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. If everyone in the world contributed the same level of warming per capita as New Zealand, total warming would peak with a temperature…See the Story
Why Rod Carr is optimistic farmers can beat climate change
Secretary of State · GazaForeign Minister Winston Peters is now going to Washington next week for talks with US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. He is currently in Brussels at a NATO summit. The visit, with programmes in New York and Washington D.C., will focus on major global and regional security challenges and includes meetings with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UN Secretary General António Guterres. “Our travel this week to Egypt, Poland, Belgium and S…See the Story