Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 18/8/23

As global dairy prices plunge, O’Connor steps up with final plan to bring down farm emissions, too

Two burning questions to be asked of ministers – how are they spending (or misspending) our money and how are they further regulating us? – are answered in a batch of press statement from the Beehive over the past 24 hours or so.

The sum mentioned by Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor made him the biggest of the spenders in the latest announcements.

Point of Order: Greenpeace attacks government on tardiness to cut farm emissions.......

.......but doesn’t NZ need all the income it can get?

At a time when the nation is reeling from the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle, climate change campaigner Greenpeace is demanding answers on why the government has yet to come up with an effective plan to cut emissions from the country’s biggest polluter.

Where’s the long-awaited plan to cut agricultural emissions? Greenpeace climate campaigner Christine Rose demands.

Point of Order: Govt curries favour with farmers with climate change investments....

.....but a collaborative strategy (don’t forget) led to Five Waters

Governmental news for the farm and forestry sectors flowed too fast from the Beehive for your Point of Order team to quickly grasp all the implications.

At first blush, we are tempted to wonder if something that looks like good news for farmers has been deftly released to camouflage the not-so-good news buried in these announcements or in some yet to be released.