Excellent point
They are doing enough bad things to keep us going for quite some time.
Also Claire Curran's 2 un-diaried meetings and Michael Woods $15k shares, for which both were hounded out, seem very small fish beside Jones, Costello and Nicole McKee's conflicts of interest. Nothing is a step too far for this government.
It's actually not personal. It's directly related to suitability and competence, and the extent to which he either chooses to reject or is not able to absorb the detail and research underpinning good and democratic decision making on his portfolio.
Oddly that church leader/bank worker CV isn't really working in the role.
If you received advice as an associate minister, you damn well should be keeping a record of it, and it should be public info. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Despite a long list of problems identified by officials, Casey Costello claimed she had got her own "independent" advice.
Especially if you RELY on it to inform policy. Otherwise that policy should be considered invalid.
Tim Winton had used the phrase ' vassal govt' and i think i will use it also from now on
rate the yuck out of 10?