Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 14/9/23

Govt contributes $1m for humanitarian work in Morocco – it will invest much more in buttressing its West Coast vote

All three new ministerial announcements on the government’s official website today provide information which shows us how some of our taxes are being spent (or misspent).

In one case, the money involved is a modest $1 million, to be spent on providing humanitarian support to the people affected by last week’s earthquake in Morocco.

Chris Trotter: The Message From Messenger Park.

Coasters Turn Out In Droves: It’s precisely the widening gulf between those with actual experience of things like guns, chainsaws and drilling machines, and those who regulate their use, that accounts for the angry crowd at Greymouth’s Messenger Park on Sunday, 17 November 2019. In the rarefied atmosphere where decisions to shut down whole industries are made, hands-on experience is not only rare – it’s despised. What do workers know about anything?

THE NUMBERS WERE IMPRESSIVE. Indeed, it looked as is half the Coast had turned out to give this government a piece of its mind.