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Heather du Plessis-Allan: 'If the National Party is hard right, I’m the tooth fairy' (opens the original)
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Dirty Work author Nicky Hager and Jordan Williams, leader of the NZ Taxpayers' Union on which the book focused. Heather du Plessis-Allan is the Drive host for Newstalk ZB. For someone who has written so much about politics, it is remarkable how naive Nicky Hager seems to be. He claims his latest book Dirty Work exposes how the Taxpayers’ Union has dragged “the National Party to hard right”. If that’s what he thinks he’s proved, he shouldn’t have bothered going to the printers with the manuscript
Heather du Plessis-Allan: No, it wasn't a rogue poll. Hipkins and Labour's trend is down (opens the original)
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Chris Hipkins faces Labour poll slump after party falls to 25.9%. Photo / Anna Heath Even when he plastered on a smile, it was hollow. There was no twinkle in his eye. It was especially noticeable the day after the Taxpayers’ Union Curia poll landed. That poll put Labour on 25.9%. That is a full percentage point lower than the already-low result the party recorded at the last election. Labour insists the poll is wrong. Its internal polling puts it in the early 30s. But even that is down on the h
Heather du Plessis-Allan: Moa Point shows we live in a world where inadequacy is accepted, what happened to accountability? (opens the original)
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Contractors at work at the Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant, Wellington, New Zealand. Photo / Mark Mitchell We have had a run of recent cases where the public has been badly let down but no one’s owned the blame for it. In February, after a night of heavy rain, the wastewater treatment plant at Moa Point in Wellington overflowed. Fourteen billion litres of raw sewage ran into the sea on the capital’s south coast. This week a report traced that disaster all the way back to 1998 when the plant
MBIE boss Nic Blakeley can still lose his job and he should (opens the original)
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It is astonishing that Nic Blakeley has been allowed to keep his job. The man lied to MPs. He isn’t denying it. He’s offered to resign over it. And yet, he’s been told he doesn’t need to. Let me remind you of the background. For years the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment knew that a data project it was working on was botched. It hid the extent of the problem and instead kept delaying the launch date, looking for more money to rescue the situation. Staff who raised concerns were mo
What Te Pāti Māori is doing is actually just bloody clever (opens the original)
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Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi appears on Ryan Bridge TODAY with host Ryan Bridge. Photo / Michael Craig Commentators are overreacting to the Māori Party’s plan to game MMP. Some have said it risks public backlash. Others have said it risks our whole electoral system. Actually, it’s just bloody clever. It could win the election for Labour and the left. People have debated this plan for months. No one actually thought the Māori Party would do it. And then, on Sunday, it did. At its campai
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