Kate Hawkesby: Good news for hairdressers...not so much for beauty and hospo

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Nov 22, 2021 · 2m

They say half right isn't wrong, so that's me this time yesterday.

I said this time yesterday that they'd open hairdressers and the beauty industry this week. So, half right.

Which is pleasing given the pasting I took after the show right across the spectrum from colleagues to siblings, all telling me I was nuts. But I was basing it on Robertson's visit to Auckland last week when he saw how acute the suffering of businesses was and seemed keen to advocate for them.

There’s increasing tension around the Cabinet table, as we know, between the fear mongers and the realists, so I don’t doubt…