Bob Edlin: PM’s turbocharging plan...

Science sector is overhauled and overseas investment fostered as part of the PM’s turbocharging plan (but is hot air involved?)

Hot air – by the sounds of things – is, or will be, making a vital contribution to the country’s economic recovery.

The PoO team (we acknowledge) is not strong on the intricacies of turbocharging. But we determined to learn more after the PM proclaimed:

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 - 6/9/24

While Luxon was observing the flight of a North Korean trash balloon, his ministers were … well, but for Seymour, it’s hard to say

The dearth of media statements from the Beehive today prompted Point of Order’s ministerial monitors to engage in a quick check.

Yep. There are 30 potential sources of statements, speeches and what-have-you, when we count Chris Luxon’s executive team. Twenty are ministers, eight are ministers outside of cabinet, and two are Parliamentary under-secretaries.

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

Govt is aiming to get things done faster – including the sales of Kiwi land to foreign investors

Our government has been busy shaping new initiatives to ensure the improvement of our general wellbeing. Essentially it’s a matter of buying more of this and that and having things done faster, including the selling of land to foreigners.

It is gratifying to find that in two cases of getting more and/or having things done faster, no dollar signs can be found in the press statements. This suggests taxpayers will not be called on to do whatever is being done to improve our wellbeing in those cases.