Annette King Archive

  • Metiria Turei

    Inequality in Aotearoa: Life expectancy - by Metiria Turei



    In the pursuit of happiness there is one essential thing you need: good health. There are many contributing factors to good health and there are also many indicators to measure if you are healthy. Over the next few posts I’ll explore a few of these indicators. This post is focussed on life expectancy. Terminal problem [...] read more
    April 12, 2010 4:55 pm - 33 Comments
  • frog

    King’s new road may be illegal - by frog



    With its announcement that it will use the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax to fund 80 percent of a new road in northern Auckland the government has just earned two more black marks against it’s records on issues that are plaguing it during the campaign; trustworthiness and illegality. The road, Penlink, which will cost $183 million [...] read more
    October 8, 2008 10:03 am - 6 Comments
  • frog

    Trading away Pharmac and GE free to the USA - by frog



    Following on from No Right Turn’s analysis of what we stand to lose from a trade deal with the USA, Russel asked a couple of questions of the Acting Minister of Trade in Parliament today: Dr Russel Norman: Will the Minister publicly guarantee that he will not sign any trade deal with the United States [...] read more
    September 23, 2008 7:58 pm - 4 Comments
  • frog

    The answer to Russel’s first question - by frog



    Appropriately Russel asked his first ever parliamentary question in the house today of Minister of Transport, Annette King.  The two of them both live in Rongotai electorate in south and east Wellington. They virtually share the same bus service. After his primary question, and King’s standard Government answer where she underfunding on a National Government [...] read more
    July 1, 2008 8:38 pm - 82 Comments
  • frog

    Russel’s first Oral Question in the House today… - by frog



    To: Annette King, Minister of Transport Can she confirm that yesterday the Government announced in this year’s National Land Transport Program a public transport budget of $325 million and a roading budget of $1.94 billion, in other words six times more for roads than for public transport? I’ll report on the answer later today. Photo [...] read more
    July 1, 2008 10:48 am - 20 Comments
  • frog

    Land transport funding - by frog



    Earlier this week Russel noted that the government spends 6 or 7 dollars on roads for every 1 dollar on public transport.  Subsequently there was some debate about where Dr Cullen’s buy back of the Rail network fits in this calculation, so I thought it would be useful to go to the Green’s parliamentary advisory [...] read more
    May 28, 2008 2:49 pm - 3 Comments