Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 20/6/24

Shane Jones and Tama Potaka invite Maori troughers to slurp into a $20m swill and Jones tells us his focus is on … guess what?

Three of the latest posts on the government’s official website result from the Prime Minister’s trip to Japan, aided and abetted by Air New Zealand stepping in to provide transport for him and his entourage after their Defence Force aircraft got them no further than Papua New Guinea.

Mike Hosking: Politics should be about the best person for the job

Here's another of our theory vs reality lessons.

This one is on gender diversity.

Read Thomas Coughlan's piece in the NZ Herald yesterday. It is a textbook example of how you can get wound up in a never-ending spiral, or maybe even boondoggle, of do-gooding.

Gender balance, allegedly, has been an issue for the National Party.