Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 11/1/24

Happy New Year – and a happy holiday (we trust) for Luxon’s ministers and their press secretaries, too

If the Government’s official website serves as a measure of ministerial activity, the Government is still on holiday.

Kerre Woodham: Good riddance to the Clean Car Discount

So, the clean car discount, aka the Ute Tax, has been repealed as Parliament continues to sit in urgency in the lead-up to the Christmas break. Some of those politicians won't know what's hit them, working past the 15th of December!

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 11/10/23

Why Nats and ACT shouldn’t pull the plug: EV registration data electrifies govt into championing its Clean Car rebates

Fresh data on the electrification of the nation’s car fleet gave the PM and his Transport Minister something to trumpet as a policy triumph in the last few days before General Election votes are counted.

Or maybe their press statement was the product of last-gasp politicking, because the fresh data related to the uptake of the Clean Car Discount, which National and Act have said they will scrap if they make it into government.