William Terite

1 week ago | pmn.co.nz | William Terite

Wellington's mayoralty election is heating up and honestly I'm here for it - much more exciting. Andrew Little has entered the chat, fresh from national politics promising to fix things eventually. Emphasis on eventually, because he's come out saying that he wants to perhaps delay the golden mile. I don't know about that. He also acknowledges rates are too high but hasn't said what he'd cut. It's kind of like complaining about the bill but disappearing when it's time to split it.

1 week ago | pmn.co.nz | William Terite

Kiwis are getting creamed! Let me explain that further. New Zealand is a land of rolling green hills, millions of cows, and somehow extremely expensive butter. Statistics NZ just dropped the latest food price figures and it's honestly pretty damn offensiveButter is up 64 per cent in the last year. Milk? You'd be like, ‘surely not’ - that's up 16 per cent buddy. Chocolate? Almost $6 and mince, which is supposed to be the cheapest cut of meat apparently, is nearly $20 a kilo. What on earth?

1 week ago | pmn.co.nz | William Terite

Let's turn our attention to a scheme that is just that, a scheme. The Kāhui Ako Scheme launched in 2014 sounded like a good idea. It was to get schools to work together, share resources, and improve teaching - that sounds cool, I'd argue though, it's been a total flop. Over 2000 schools are involved and somehow it's costing us a ridiculous $118 million a year, for arguably little to no return. So what do we get for all that cash, you might ask?

2 weeks ago | pmn.co.nz | William Terite

David Parker is calling it a day and with him arguably goes one of Labour's last actual Labour MPs.The man held many portfolios in his time, Attorney General twice, Trade, Environment, Revenue, Climate Change, Transport. He even served as Deputy Leader during the David Cunliffe era, which if you're a regular listener of Pacific Mornings, I often say was Labour's messiest era.

2 weeks ago | pmn.co.nz | William Terite

So the government's decided to pump 12 billion dollars into our New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and honestly it's long overdue. For too damn long we've been reliant on the idea that we're at the bottom of the world away from harm and problems - but the world has changed. From China expanding its influence in the Pacific to Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine, it's clear now more than ever that we live in a far more volatile and unpredictable world, right?