Labour Supports NZ/India FTA
National's decision to ‘dribble’ information about the NZ/India to Labour contributed to the delay in it deciding to supported the FTA.
A mate of the Hound’s wonders just how Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor is getting along with his 2IC in the agriculture portfolio Meka Whaitiri.
Remembering O’Connor’s infamous comment about the Labour Party list selection process, a few years back, in which the West Coast MP described it as controlled by ‘’self-serving unionists and a gaggle of gays’’, the Hound’s mate suggests it could make for an ‘interesting’ working relationship between O’Connor and Whaitiri.
That’s because the associate ag minister’s whanau are “staunch union members’’ and she is also a proud member of the Labour Party’s rainbow caucus.
Mind you, your old mate suggests if O’Connor does get out of line, Whaitiri should avoid giving him a bit of a slap – like she was accused of in her first term as a minister and subsequently lost her job!
Applications for Silver Fern Farms Co-operative's next board-appointed farmer director are open.
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New Zealand needs to have "a really mature conversation" around modern gene editing technologies and synthetic biology, says the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor, Dr John Roche.
A booming agriculture sector and sold-out exhibition sites are pointing to a bumper 2026 National Fieldays at Mystery Creek, Hamilton.
Wilding pines are the wrong tree in the wrong place, and they need to go, says Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard.
According to new research, industry leaders have ranked world-class biodiversity as the number one priority for the 16th year in a row.