Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 18/7/24

Simon Watts is chuffed with emissions reduction plan – but climate experts have hastened to expose the shortcomings

Long before it was posted on the government’s official website today, the ministerial press statement with the greatest implications for the nation’s wellbeing no longer was news.

This is Climate Change Minister Simon Watts’ claim (it is a matter open to argument) that the Government’s draft Emissions Reduction Plan shows we can stay within the limits of the first two emissions budgets while growing the economy.

Lindsay Mitchell: Am I the only person who reads MSD's annual reports?

Am I the only person who has read MSD's latest annual report?

It's a tedious business but surely a few checkers cast their eyes over it prior to publication.

I was casting my own over the benefit statistics by region when I stopped in my tracks.