David Farrar: Verrall vs Hipkins

Radio NZ reports:

Labour has confirmed it will keep the coalition government’s health targets if elected, while admitting some of its “three free GP visits” could be with a nurse practitioner rather than a GP. …

Verrall confirmed Labour’s approach to the targets while discussing its plan for emergency departments, released on Tuesday.

David Farrar: TPM rorting charities again

The Herald reports:

MP Takutai Kemp was under investigation at the time of her death last year for funnelling thousands of dollars of charity money into Te Pāti Māori electoral campaigns, official documents show.

Details of the investigation by the Department of Internal Affairs into support provided in 2023 to Te Pāti Māori (TPM) by registered charity Manurewa Marae, for which Kemp served as chief executive at the time, were obtained by the Herald under the Official Information Act.

Rodney Hide: The Future

Somewhere this week a team of consultants are finishing a business case for Council for a car park building. It will rest on careful traffic modelling and solid historical data. And in fifteen years it will be empty while the cars that should have filled it are out working.

That's the problem with all government. It drives by the rear-vision mirror.

Mike's Minute: One week to go, and the winner is...

So, the winner in week... what is it, five or six?

The winner in week five of the election campaign was the polls. Not the pollsters. The polls.

They were far from winners. The spread, the margin of error in some, is now so absurd they're writing articles about it.

 Saturday October 31, 2026 

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