David Seymour: Implementing ONE LAW for ALL in the public service

Below is a video of ACT's One Law for All in the Public Service policy announcement - and following questions from the media - it is well worth watching and listening to. Also a text summary of the speech.

Bob Edlin: Govt fails to lick the cone problem

Govt fails to lick the cone problem – but van Velden says the hotline (despite uncollected data) have helped to inform her

Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden had many motorists cheering, back in March, when she banged out a press statement to boast (according to the headline) Going for growth: cutting health & safety red tape

She proceeded to proclaim that the Government

Ryan Bridge: Have we lost the plot on Health and Safety rules?

Brooke van Velden's anti-health and safety crusade's taken a rather bizarre twist - it's the plot twist nobody saw coming.

She's consulting the public on safe activities kids are allowed to do on farms, like watering plants and collecting chicken eggs.

It's a bit of an odd strategy, but the strategy seems to be that there's a potential problem with the law.

Bob Edlin: Accident report calls for tougher rules from a govt....

Sailing against the tide – accident report calls for tougher rules from a govt which has given the “full steam ahead” command

The Transport Accident Investigation Commission is sailing into a strong head wind with its recommendation that substandard ships should be banned from New Zealand, under “appropriate criteria”.

The recommendation is included in the commission’s final report into the container ship Shiling, which twice had to be rescued and towed back to port in 2023.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 14/10/24

Polls dip for Nats but govt sticks to its guns on growth – and the restoration of “mauri” (but how is it measured?) plays a part

The phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid” was coined by James Carville, a strategist involved in Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential election campaign against George H W Bush.

It worked for Clinton, whose team used it successfully to unseat Bush the elder, despite the fact that 90 per cent of the country approved of the job that the incumbent had been doing just a year before the election.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 19/6/24

More money flows through the infrastructure pipeline – and Public Works Act changes aim to hasten the flow

Infrastructure is big deal in the Beehive news agenda today.

The government is making it easier to build infrastructure by modernising the Public Works Act.

And it is braying about the billions of dollars being pumped through something called the National Infrastructure Pipeline, which provides a national “view” of current or planned infrastructure projects, from roads, to water infrastructure, to schools

Point of Order: Govt reports on how millions of our money are being used to improve our wellbeing

But the disarmament news is grim

Our improved wellbeing – hurrah – has been high among ministerial considerations as they spend our money over the past 24 hours.

We are being safeguarded against falling into debt traps, funded to improve the quality of rural water supplies, provided with more mental-health support, and protected from bosses who would do our health and safety a mischief.