Kate Hawkesby: What Luxon did right in his State of the Nation, was to remind us of all the wastefulness of this government

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Mar 5, 2023 · 3m

I think what Luxon did right in his State of the Nation, was to remind us of all the wastefulness of this government.

One of the things I worry about is that we have short memories; you know come October 14th do we still remember MIQ, inaccessibility to RAT tests, multiple lockdowns, or thousands of cancelled surgeries? Do people still care – or will they have they moved on by then?

It’s a fine line of course for an opposition party. On the one hand you don’t want to be seen as too negative or whiney, you have to be seen to offer up new policies and new ideas but it is still important to…