Labour has had the Maori seats for most of the last 90 years. Do you reckon they have delivered for Maori?
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Agreed.
The foreign affairs minister presents a face & image of NZ to the world.
For all of Winston’s faults, he represented NZ well whenever he was foreign minister - well spoken, suave and knowledgeable.
Nanaia’s appointment shows the lack of depth in the team of incompetents. What did she achieve in the last 3 years as a minister?
Beggars belief to have someone like her represents NZ’s overseas.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-in...urprise-or-two
Restocking the Cabinet: Ardern spring clean packs surprise or two
But to those who have not fared so well.
Jenny Salesa is out as a minister altogether.
RNZ understands a combination of underperformance and the political risk of a very high staff turnover in her office were the deciding factors.
Phil Twyford is the other demotion - while still a minister he's out of Cabinet and loses transport. It looks like he's very much on the way out, with no signal from Ardern he has a potential path back to Cabinet.
Overall the structure of the Covid ministers makes sense, to have details man Chris Hipkins oversee the nuts and bolts of the response without having to become enmired in the broader Health portfolio; that's been taken up by Andrew Little with back up from infectious disease specialist Verrall.
One person who did not make it as a minister was Keiran McAnulty; he'll become senior whip and with 64 MPs (before specials are counted) keeping everything under control with such a big caucus will almost be worthy of a ministerial position in itself.
Newly appointed minister hits the world stage via CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/02/a...hnk/index.html
The appointment underlines a visual determination to step out from the shadow of post-colonialism. Removal of the union flag and a post-Elizabethan republic next?
Maybe it will take the attention away from the fact that they have left taxation reform in the too hard bin.
Good points, Bjauck.
The cabinet is certainly more representative of the NZ of today and it is a good thing to move the country towards a republic. Question is - have the right people been picked for the ministerial positions or is it diversity for its own sake?
Not just taxation return but notice how quiet Cindy has been about the housing market amd how prices there are galloping way out of reach of the average family & first home buyers?
moka she has admitted Davis told her BEFORE the election that he did not want to be Deputy PM. He has never changed this view. Why was she telling media last week that the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party would be the Deputy PM ? That is a straight out lie, like her pre-election rubbishing of National's plans for a "COVID ministry" that she has now implemented and her rubbishing of National's plan to offer state houses for sale to tenants, something she has been doing secretly for the last 3 years. She simply just continuously lies to us and gets away with.
Apart from Mahuta, Clark and Twyford, I think the PM has come up with a reasonably strong team and I am very pleased she has given infrastructure to Robertson. We may finally see something happen in that field after the disaster 3 years under Twyford.