Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 16/4/24

Seymour is chuffed about cutting early-learning red tape – but we hear, too, that Jones has loosened our coal-mining rules

David Seymour and Winston Peters today signaled that at least two ministers of the Crown might be in Wellington today.

Seymour (as Associate Minister of Education) announced the removal of more red tape, this time to make it easier for new early learning services to be established and for existing services to operate.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 1/9/23

Govt takes a punt on the game development industry while nobbling supermarkets with a code to encourage fair play

Favours are being bestowed on the business sector – some businesses, at least – in the latest bunch of Beehive announcements.

First, the government has decided it must do something to buttress the winning chances of the game development industry, which – we must suppose – is deemed to be in no condition to survive without a dollop of corporate welfare.