Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 5/3/24

Be cheered by the govt’s $20bn transport programme – but then you should ask how much (and how) you will be contributing

Announcing the return of “boot camps” for delinquent Kiwi youths was sure to win headlines for Children’s Minister Karen Chhour.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 6/9/23

Young recidivists who have slipped through the cracks won’t have to break through the bars under youth-crime initiative

The trade news from Damien O’Connor was unambiguously positive – although outfits like Greenpeace might find cause for complaint.

It was that New Zealand has won its trade dispute with Canada over access for dairy products under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) free trade agreement.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: It might be worth hearing National out on the boot camp idea

 

I don’t blame you if your first reaction to National’s boot camp idea was to roll your eyes because, well, this is hardly a new idea from National is it? 

They ran it out at the 2008 election, then closed the camps.

They tried it at the 2017 election, but never got a chance to do it because Winston chose Jacinda.

And frankly, it is a pretty old fashioned idea that gets trotted out by conservative parties pretty frequently.