Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 8/9/23

How our steel production is being greened (thanks to $140m of greasing from the GIDI fund)

Hello – is anyone home?

We asked, earlier today, because Point of Order visited the Beehive website and, to our bemusement, found no new announcements had been posted in the previous 24 hours or so.

This suggested ministers were out on the hustings, doing their desperate bit to get Labour re-elected and preserve their jobs, rather than getting on with governing.

Point of Order: Govt gives census officials more time to collect data in cyclone-hit areas...

....and goes global with appeal for recovery funds

The cleanup after Cyclone Gabrielle continues to dominate the outflow of announcements from the Beehive.

Today’s news notably includes something that had been anticipated – the Census collection period will be extended in areas impacted by the Cyclone.

Ministers have announced –