Daily review 01/10/2026

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   Many good things in Chris Hipkins’ speech to the Law Association, but this pledge stands out for me!

   Strengthening access to information

   Third, we will modernise the Official Information Act and give it more teeth.

   The Act was written for a world of filing cabinets and paper. It needs to work for the way government operates today.

   We will codify proactive releases, including ministers' diaries, and create an effective penalties regime for breaches of the Act.

   People should be able to see who ministers are meeting and understand how decisions are being made.

   Journalists need that information to test what ministers tell them. Communities need it to challenge decisions that affect them. And the public needs it to judge whether government is doing what it promised.

   Transparency is not a favour ministers grant when it suits them. It is part of being accountable to the public.

   https://www.labour.org.nz/news/speech-trust-in-government-chris-hipkins/

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   The schooling of Mowbray and Son.

   Making toys in China and exporting them is sharp business practice, but it is not really innovation – Apple computers and I phones is it?

   Nor did it create jobs here, or deliver tax revenue.

   The Mowbray's are a little like the latter day oligarchs of the Trump era (though Charles Koch preceded them by decades with his right wing version of philanthropy). They think wealth gives them competence in areas where they have none.

   FACT

   TPM routinely wins more seats than it would get from the party list – unlike ACT it was not given a seat to be in parliament. They have well known internal issues and are now concerned about holding their seats, thus making this their focus.

   Mowbray portrays this as

   “Te Pāti Māori has encouraged voters to split their votes backing its electorate candidates while giving their party vote to your party. Centre-right voters are equally entitled to split their votes within those same rules,” he said.

   Manufacturing an excuse for a right wing-cheat because of the polls more likely. This follows on from the GOP move to gerrymandering

   But it also is indicative of his risible political analysis – and one suspects this is commensurate to the paucity of knowledge about Labour's economic record and the importance to political society as a foundation to a working economy in a democracy. Something he has little experience with – by choice.

   https://www.tickaroo.com/e/GXJetpehzY7Piqok

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