Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Do we need to panic about fuel supplies?

Now look, I don’t think there’s any reason to panic, but if you’ve been reading the news closely - and especially if you’ve been reading more widely than just the New Zealand news - you’re probably starting to feel a little nervous about what might happen to fuel supplies here and the possibility that we may have to start rationing.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 6/6/24

Govt is aiming to get things done faster – including the sales of Kiwi land to foreign investors

Our government has been busy shaping new initiatives to ensure the improvement of our general wellbeing. Essentially it’s a matter of buying more of this and that and having things done faster, including the selling of land to foreigners.

It is gratifying to find that in two cases of getting more and/or having things done faster, no dollar signs can be found in the press statements. This suggests taxpayers will not be called on to do whatever is being done to improve our wellbeing in those cases.

Point of Order: Code of conduct for school board members is announced.....

.....by a minister whose grasp of Parliament’s rules is in question

Education Minister Jan Tinetti brings news of a book of rules for school board members at the same time as her own grasp of Parliament’s rule book has been brought into question.

Tinetti has announced a compulsory code of conduct to “ensure school board members are crystal clear on their responsibilities and expected standard of behaviour”.

How crystal clear she might be on her responsibilities as a minister and the standard of behaviour expected of her is questionable.