Domestic Focus
OPINION: After hogging the media limelight for telling a NZ Chinese MP to "go back home", Winston Peters has decided to focus on a domestic issue - oil and gas drilling.
Last week the Government left it to officials to announce, late one evening, that MIQ room release has been postponed due to the "unprecedented number of Omicron cases".
The Government says pausing the next allocation of managed isolation rooms for those entering the country is a "temporary position" while MIQ was under "extreme pressure" from those returning with the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
With no MIQ spots available in the near future, overseas workers with visas can only wait, leaving farmers without much-needed help.
