Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: How will RUCs change our driving behaviours?

So the Government just announced what they’re calling the biggest change to road funding in 50 years. Once these changes kick in, petrol taxes are out and RUCs - road user charges - are in, for everyone.

Not just truckies, not just EV drivers, not just diesel users, every single one of us.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 19/3/24

Bishop scores headlines with crackdown on unwelcome tenants – but Peters scores, too, as tub-thumper and diplomat

Housing Minister Chris Bishop delivered news – packed with the ingredients to enflame political passions – worthy of supplanting Winston Peters in headline writers’ priorities.

He popped up at the post-Cabinet press conference to promise a crackdown on unruly and antisocial state housing tenants.

Ele Ludemann: User pays fairer

Tradies, farmers and every other buyer of a new utility vehicle were subsidising buyers of electric vehicles until the ute tax was axed at the end of last year.

All road users have been subsidising EV drivers who were paying neither fuel tax nor road user charges as every other vehicle owner must. That subsidy will soon stop:

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 17/1/24

Govt kicks in $3.9m to help prop a women’s rugby tour in 2027 – and score for the economy – but Lee sounds like a social engineer

The government has announced it will be spending $3.9 million (to prop up the inaugural Women’s British and Irish Lions Tour) and, more immediately, collecting an unspecified sum (from the owners of light electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids).