Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 11/11/24

A sop to the hikoi crowd? Govt finds $20m for work at Rātana Pā and Waitangi (where MPs eagerly trek each year)

The headline written by a Beehive scribbler alerted your Point of Order team to the prospect of a geographical shift in the lower North Island, raising questions about the pace of this shift and the political implications.

How profound might those implications be?

The headline said:

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 4/7/24

And when food-producing land makes way for housing, don’t fret – there’s plenty of kina to be harvested

More regulations are being shredded or rewritten as the government steps up development and eases back on environmental concerns.

Paving the way for more houses is likely to be the big headline-grabber among the latest announcements.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 2/5/24

Jones has made plain he isn’t fond of frogs (not the dim-witted ones, at least) – and now we learn he is no kinder to kina

This article was prepared for publication yesterday. More ministerial announcements have been posted on the government’s official website since it was written. We will report on these later today ….now posted above

There we were, thinking the environment is in trouble, when along came Jones.