Peter Wilson: Week in Politics: National and Labour go courting at Fieldays

It was Fieldays week and that meant Labour and National courting the farmers with enticing policies.

Opposition leader Christopher Luxon announced National's policy, which pushes back the deadline for pricing agricultural emissions to 2030 and rules out putting the sector under the Emissions Trading Scheme.

The party's agriculture spokesman, Todd McClay, said it was all about giving farmers the tools they needed to cut methane emissions.

Point of Order: Verrall enthuses about the beneficial effects of tax breaks while O’Connor muses on a fertiliser tax

An email from Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta had yet to be posted on the government’s official website, when Point of Order made its morning check on our ministers and what they are (officially) up to.

She was providing us with an account – a somewhat brief one – of her visit to Korea where the highlights included meetings with Korean President Yoon and Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Henry Puna during her recent visit to Korea.

This left just one new press statement on the website, from Ayesha Verrall in her role as Minister of Research, Science and Innovation.

Verrall was enthusing about the benefits being generated by a tax policy generated to drive research and development.