Tax relief is included in the next stage of Government Action Plan – but hospital staff could do with greater security
Uh, oh. Maybe we are in the PM’s Naughty Book.
We received a press statement from Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick to tell us the Government’s ‘36 point’ plan for the next three months “is as pointless as it is hollow”.
She was more than somewhat sniffy:
“Christopher Luxon is not in the boardroom anymore. The irony is these bullet points wouldn’t even hold up in the corporate world: vague, immeasurable and untethered from reality and evidence as they are.”
We had anticipated statements from the Opposition side of the House. The PM – fresh off completing the Coalition’s 100-day plan – had told RNZ’s Morning Report about the next stage of the Government’s action plan to get the country “back on track”.
“Every one of these 36 actions ladders up to that”.
His priority list for the next three months includes the delivery of long-promised tax relief (in stubborn defiance of heaps of advice from reputable economists).
RNZ reported:
The new “action plan” – published on Tuesday – includes 36 bullet points to be achieved by 30 June, and, like its predecessor, contains a mix of concrete tasks and more ambiguous easily-achievable objectives.
Having heard the PM discuss this action plan, Point of Order staffers headed to the email for details.
Nope. Nothing from the PM today and nor was the plan immediately to be found on the Government’s official website, although it had been posted there when we checked later in the morning.
Or rather, a media statement which provided a link to the action plan had been posted.
The statement can be found alongside announcements from the PM’s hard-working ministers (two of them from the New Zealand First component of his coalition government) –
We had anticipated statements from the Opposition side of the House. The PM – fresh off completing the Coalition’s 100-day plan – had told RNZ’s Morning Report about the next stage of the Government’s action plan to get the country “back on track”.
“Every one of these 36 actions ladders up to that”.
His priority list for the next three months includes the delivery of long-promised tax relief (in stubborn defiance of heaps of advice from reputable economists).
RNZ reported:
The new “action plan” – published on Tuesday – includes 36 bullet points to be achieved by 30 June, and, like its predecessor, contains a mix of concrete tasks and more ambiguous easily-achievable objectives.
Having heard the PM discuss this action plan, Point of Order staffers headed to the email for details.
Nope. Nothing from the PM today and nor was the plan immediately to be found on the Government’s official website, although it had been posted there when we checked later in the morning.
Or rather, a media statement which provided a link to the action plan had been posted.
The statement can be found alongside announcements from the PM’s hard-working ministers (two of them from the New Zealand First component of his coalition government) –
Health Minister Reti said the start of this year’s flu campaign reinforces the importance of vaccination in keeping New Zealanders healthy during the winter months ahead and protecting the health frontline.
Protecting the health frontline?
An incident at Wairarapa Hospital at the weekend suggests more is needed than flu shots. According to the NZ Herald, the hospital did not have security guards on hand when a man attacked a visitor in the emergency department with a machete just before midnight yesterday.
A 62-year-old man was taken into custody at the scene and is now facing a charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters made the announcement “during his ongoing visit to Egypt”.
His ongoing visit?
Does this mean he won’t be coming home?
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones got to holler the good news about a project to breed ‘super’ snapper that are more resistant to disease, grow faster, and can thrive in warmer water
In the wild, snapper can take many years to grow to catch size Jones pointed out.
“The ability to grow them faster, getting them from farm to plate in a shorter time, could open up a new export market and reduce pressure on wild snapper stock.”
Under the Fisheries Act, fish caught for research purposes are not able to be used in aquaculture.
But rules are there to be bent or broken and an exemption has been granted to Plant and Food Research, a crown research institute, which will allows it to move its brood snapper stock to a pilot-scale aquaculture farm being developed in Marlborough.
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2 APRIL 2024
Minister of Health Dr Shane Reti says the start of this year’s flu campaign reinforces the importance of vaccination in keeping New Zealanders healthy during the winter months ahead and protecting the health frontline.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has launched the Government’s next action plan to deliver for New Zealand – setting out key steps to be taken by June 30 to rebuild the economy, restore law and order and improve public services.
1 APRIL 2024
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced $6 million in humanitarian assistance to those affected by conflict in Gaza and Sudan during his ongoing visit to Egypt.
31 MARCH 2024
A new project to breed ‘super’ snapper that are more resistant to disease, grow faster, and can thrive in warmer water could help drive more economic growth through aquaculture.
Prime Minister Luxon said the government’s next action plan, like its 100-Day Plan, is focused on three key areas to make life better for Kiwis:
- Rebuilding the economy and easing the cost of living
- Restoring law and order, and
- Delivering better public services.
Commitments in the Government’s action plan for New Zealand include:
- Deliver a budget that reduces wasteful spending while investing in frontline services.
- Deliver tax relief to hardworking New Zealanders.
- Set targets for improving public services, like education and health.
- Launch an Attendance Action Plan to get kids back to school.
- Restore Three Strikes to hold serious, repeat offenders to account.
- Establish a Regional Infrastructure Fund to boost economic growth in our regions.
- Reform the CCCFA regime to make it easier for home-buyers to access credit, and introduce legislation to improve the rental market.
The Greens’ Chlöe Swarbrick huffed that the government had shown in the past six months that
“… its focus is squarely on gutting environmental, climate and social gains in order to line the pockets of a few at the top.”
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson noted that climate change is barely mentioned across this plan.
And even then, it is to state that the Government will be initiating a review of its methane targets that excludes farming related methane, and that it will keep farming out of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
Point of Order is a blog focused on politics and the economy run by veteran newspaper reporters Bob Edlin and Ian Templeton
2 comments:
I trust better public servives means scrapping the Marine - Coastal - Foreshore legislation and replacing it with a moratorium to eliminate the Maori coastline land grab .
Secondly to remove all maori language from Government ministeries , buildings , documents communications and placenames.
Maori language should be only available on Maori TV and radio as the humiliation to tourists and residents trying to decipher the madeup gabble on NZ public media is unreasonable.
Not enough in the Plan to rein in Maorification.
Ms Swarbrick's only known plan is the Marxist plan to destroy society.
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