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ACT’s Parliamentary Leader John Boscawen said the Government had failed to make sufficient cuts to make a difference and it lacked vision.
Bill English had been given an opportunity to make radical change and had not taken it.
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The only spectre haunting Anthony Albanese’s government going into Election Day tomorrow will be the way the polls got wrong the likely 2019 election outcome. Back then, the Scott Morrison government got re-elected in an upset result. Opposition leader Peter Dutton is clinging to that precedent, in hope of a miracle. This time, all of the prevailing signs – including the consistent theme of the polls for the past month – indicate that Albanese’s Labor government will trounce Dutton’s conservative coalition. What’s different from 2019? Albanese, like Morrison before him, is a known quantity.
The new standard requires public service agencies to conduct a risk assessment whenever personal information is to be shared and includes robust safeguards to protect individual privacy and directs agencies to apply best practices when granting access to personal information.
“Matapihi ki te Ao is more than a name, it’s a promise. A window to the world for our rangatahi and whānau,” says Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. “We won’t sit back while this Government shuts the door on Māori futures. Our commitment is clear—we would invest more in regional tertiary education, not less.”
Unless your workplace is already utopia – and we haven’t come across one yet – there is a good reason for all union members to come to this hui. Whatever your union and whatever matters most to you and your workmates, please join us at the union meeting this May Day so that we can keep building our relationships and strength as a movement for workers’ rights.
The right to vote is the basis of democratic government. Legitimate governments cannot arbitrarily remove people from the pool that elects them. If the Government strips New Zealanders of the right to vote, it is attacking the democratic principles it claims to be founded on.
Led by the seven-metre-long Taxpayers' Union Karaka Nama (Debt Clock), the hīkoi highlights the Government's borrowing from our tamariki and mokopuna. It calls for the Govt to balance the books & stop borrowing billions from future generations.
Greenpeace spokesperson Will Appelbe says, "Everyone, no matter where they live, should be able to drink the water from their kitchen tap without getting sick. But this basic right is under threat by an already oversized intensive dairy industry that’s set to expand further."
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