New BMW fleet value for taxpayer, says Key

The Government should have known about the purchase of 34 new BMW limousines for ministers, but Prime Minister John Key learned of the multimillion-dollar deal from his chauffeur last week.

Read more here
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10706832

Outrage-as-Key-signals-national-park-mining

It is expected that the Government will seek consultation this month on removing land in Coromandel and the Mt Aspiring, Kahurangi, Fiordland and Paparoa national parks from Schedule 4.

Read more
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/3309721/Outrage-as-Key-signals-national-park-mining

Outrage at Key's pro-whaling plan

Now, the Key Government has, without public consultation or mandate, thrown decades of political consensus in the trash. They are proposing the reintroduction commercial whaling.

Read more here
http://thestandard.org.nz/outrage-at-keys-pro-whaling-plan/

National Government responsible for mass unemployment, not unemployed Kiwis

John Key and Paula Bennett today announced plans to make life harder for the unemployed –at the same time that unemployment is at its highest since the dark days of the last National Government in the 1990s.
Maritime Union General Secretary Joe Fleetwood says many things are responsible for high unemployment in New Zealand, including the global recession, the instability of a deregulated economy, and a National Government with no ideas

Read more here
http://www.munz.org.nz/2010/03/23/national-government-responsible-for-mass-unemployment-not-unemployed-kiwis/

"Anti-war" Green calls for war on Libya

Federal Greens MP Adam Bandt likes to parade himself as a peacenik, with his fanatical opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but today the "Anti-War" Bandt has called for immediate military action against the Islamic country of Libya.

Read more here
http://www.la.org.au/news/160311/antiwar-green-calls-war-libya