Bob Edlin: Jones enthuses about “holistic” strategies.....

Jones enthuses about “holistic” strategies – and has a whole lot of money ($60m) for Taupo geothermal project

This report was triggered by a ministerial press statement which our Beehive watchdogs last week filed in the “what the hell does that mean?” category.

The statement came from the Coalition Government’s master of verbosity, Shane Jones, but it contained an expression which we expect will be employed by politicians disposed to “wokeness”.

He said:

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 30/9/24

Corporate welfare? The Luxon government has yet to put a cork in it – and the wine industry has become a beneficiary

Eradicating corporate welfare was the rationale applied by the PM when he set about delivering National’s campaign promise to end the Government Decarbonising Industry Fund (GIDI).

Before the election, Christopher Luxon said he would use the Emissions Trading Scheme to give companies an incentive to install clean energy without taxpayer grants. He criticised Labour for handing out grants to “in many cases profitable” companies.