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OPINION: The election run-up is on and things are getting nasty.
Operatives from both sides of the political centre are airing out the ‘dirt files’ they have been sitting on to ankle-tap political opponents.
The self-appointed morality police that are NZ’s political reporters happily play along, largely ignoring policy-based stories (hard work) in favour of ‘gotcha’ character judgement stories (not hard work).
So far, voters have heard that NZ First harbours at least one candidate so far down the rabbit hole that they believe Covid vaccines continue to emit signals from the grave; an Act MP thinks (or once thought) that vaccines caused drownings; Te Pati Māori have had to apologise for their assertion that Māori are genetically superior, and that indigenous people should get housing priority over migrants.
PM Chippy has also demonstrated Labour will run a negative campaign, so the gloves are off and we’ll see more of the mud-slinging before polling day. Grab your popcorn and settle in!
OPINION: After all the criticism that Winston Peters leveled at the India/NZ FTA, it seemed just a trifle ironic to the Hound that the first NZ politician to visit India after Prime Minister Modi's visit was a member of the Ewe Zealand First party.
OPINION: The Green Party’s rivers and oceans policy may have a new name but nothing else has changed.
OPINION: Staying on Plan Change 1, NZ First deputy leader Shane Jones took to social media to gain some political points.
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson says his party – NZ First - isn’t opposed to the “trade element” of a free trade deal with India.
OPINION: NZ First knows its market and feeds it a constant diet of how ‘good’ the good old days were, promising to resurrect policies and icons of a bygone era.
Potatoes New Zealand has congratulated Peter Reynolds of TA Reynolds Ltd in Pukekohe on being awarded the Horticulture New Zealand Bledisloe Cup, recognising a lifetime of service and contribution to New Zealand horticulture.
Signing up to a benchmarking tool is not about competition, but about improving collectively, says Ximena Puig and Alvaro Luzardo who are 50-50 sharemilkers at a 164-hectare (effective) dairy farm in Eketāhuna in the Lower North Island.
A leading British farming politician says he's impressed with the positive attitude of New Zealand farmers that he met during his recent trip here.
OPINION: With 10,500 dairy farms, New Zealand continues to punch above its weight around the world.
The Southern Dairy Hub (SDH), which runs a demonstration farm for South Island farmers, has a new general manager.
Esther Guy-Meakin has been announced as the new chief executive of the New Zealand Meat Board (NZMB).
