Israel-Hamas war: New Zealand is calling for a pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas to create safe areas for civilians and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.įossil-fuel ban: Officials have questioned why the outgoing Government is bothering with a ban on new baseload fossil-fuel electricity generation. Gang crackdown: National’s police spokesman says the party may outlaw gang facial tattoos if its planned ban on gang patches doesn’t work. Government spending: The incoming Government has been warned by ratings agency Fitch it must stick to its spending promises.Ĭoalition talks: Act’s David Seymour has publicly questioned National’s tax commitment as coalition negotiations drag on. Opinion: Winston Peters has now gone too far for any decent person to want him serving in government, writes Matthew Hooton.Īct v RBNZ: Act leader David Seymour, who could become Associate Finance Minister once the new Government is formed, is talking tough on making the Reserve Bank operate similarly to the way it did in the 1990s. Peters tweetstorm: NZ First leader Winston Peters is continuing to defend his misleading tweets about the 2019 Christchurch terror attack. And let’s not forget, Luxon mentioned the possibility of Sir Fozzie during the campaign. To Christopher Luxon for approving outgoing Sports Minister Grant Robertson going to Paris as the Government representative at the RWC final. It’s not forgetting something he once knew it’s refusing to put it right.Ĭhristopher Luxon has given the green light for outgoing Sports Minister Grant Robertson to go to Paris as the Government's representative at the Rugby World Cup final. Who was National’s most recent agriculture spokesman? (Answer below.) Brickbat “Gang members have to wake up in the morning and they have to apply foundation to cover offensive tattoos that they have put on their faces” - National’s Mark Mitchell explains that what happens in Australia could happen in New Zealand too after the incoming Government moves to ban gang patches in public (RNZ). “You’ve got to read very carefully what National have said on their pledge card, that the average earner will receive $100 per household per fortnight without specifying the time - so that could be in the 2026-27 financial year” - Act’s David Seymour talking tax this week ( The Working Group podcast). No doubt he will be on hand on Sunday to celebrate success if the All Blacks win the Rugby World Cup final. Luxon himself is not making public appearances every day, but often enough to remind people he is preparing to take office. This has never been the case.īut doing his relationship-building and pre-coalition maneuvers in Auckland is different and not a bad idea. There has been a certain degree of grumpiness in the media for Luxon misrepresenting previous coalition talks as having included regular updates on the state of the negotiations. Willis has been an able deputy to Luxon in Opposition and could certainly make a seamless shift to Deputy PM in Government. But Seymour and Peters could benefit from the freedom of being support partners outside of Cabinet where their individualism would be less problematic. Incidentally, Peters’ tweet was posted about 7pm on Wednesday night, just a short time before Luxon and his wife, Amanda, arrived at the home of Peters and his partner, Jan Trotman, for dinner, and the follow-up tweet came just after 11pm.īefore the election, Luxon talked about National’s preferred governing arrangement as being a two-way coalition with Act. That is the big worry - less the error itself, but the inability and unwillingness to recover from it. And instead of accepting he was wrong when presented with the evidence, he became more inventive in his conspiracy. His tweet on Wednesday night suggesting the inquest into the 2019 mosque massacre had revealed secrets previously withheld by Jacinda Ardern was pure conspiracy. Peters, who showed relative constraint, discipline and good humour throughout his election campaign, has snapped. NZ First leader Winston Peters and Act leader David Seymour might both have a claim to the position after the final results are released in a week, but both would be problematic for quite different reasons. Events of the past week show why Christopher Luxon should strongly press the case for his National Party deputy, Nicola Willis, to become his Deputy Prime Minister. To sign up, click on your profile at .nz and select ‘Newsletters’. This is a transcript of Audrey Young’s subscriber-only Premium Politics newsletter.
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