Paula Bennett has turned her attention to invalid beneficiaries. In a carefully worded statement, she says:
“This Government will support those that cannot work.
“I just want to be clear that this is not a blanket 85,000 people having to walk through the doors of Work and Income in the first month or something,” Ms Bennett told [...]

I see that question time was filled with references to the UNDP Human Development Report on Human Mobility and Development and a book called The Spirit Level. No Right Turn and FrogBlog are also terribly excited about the report, as if inequality is the only thing that matters. They probably get this idea from the [...]

Predictably, the Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment Bill was decisively exterminated before it even reached select committee. No surprises there, but good on Metiria Turei for taking the time to put the bill forward.
Readers of this blog may now be scratching their heads, because they know that the MacDoctor is not in favour of [...]

Jeanette Fitzsimons has announced she will stand down from the leadership of the Greens in June. With her goes the last vestiges of the environmental wing of the Greens, leaving the watermelon exposed to the pips. And talking of being given the pip, I see Sue Bradford has firmly throw her hat into the ring and Metiria [...]