Tim Dower: Don't be fooled by government's Three Waters backdown

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Dec 4, 2022 · 2m

The Government's backdown on entrenching that part of the Three Waters legislation was about as well orchestrated as it could have been.

We got the release about 8am yesterday — unusual to be honest — and Chris Hipkins was available to speak to it on ZB just after 9 with Francesca. What a stroke of luck!

That opens the door to the Opposition parties to have their say and I suspect that on a bad day for them, the Government's spin team would have been willing to see it play out in the 6pm telly news.

So how fortuitous that Pharmac's announcement on the drug for Cystic Fibrosis was embargoed…