Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 21/11/24

Three minutes after midnight, police make arrest under new gang patch law – but the boot camp news is disappointing

The good news on the law-and-order front today came from an ebullient Police Minister Mark Mitchell. Police had made their first arrests under the new gang patch legislation, with two gang members arrested, says Police Minister Mark Mitchell.

Just before 11 this morning, Police in Wairoa apprehended a gang member for wearing a patch to the supermarket. He had been arrested and would face “enforcement action”.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 28/6/24

Tohunga and rongoa get no special treatment under new medicines legislation: let’s see how the Maori Party reacts

ACT’s Brooke van Velden obviously wanted us to know about her beneficent role in a lolly scramble involving the dispersal of hundreds of millions of dollars. As Minister of Internal Affairs she announced that $343.5 million in lottery profits have been allocated to communities across the country – an increase of around $29.8 million from previous years.

Point of Order: Albanese makes it easier for Kiwis to become Aussie citizens....

.....and that looks likely to make emigration even more attractive

Travel has loomed large in Beehive press statements over the past 24 hours or so.

The PM has travelled to Australia, the Minister of Education is off to the US for a teaching conference, kiwis have returned to the Tongariro Forest, and the last live farm animals to travel by sea from this country have been shipped out of New Plymouth.

The PM’s press statement today is the most significant insofar as it tells us we all have been given a strong incentive to make our own travel plans and emigrate to Australia.