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National leader Christopher Luxon and NZ First leader Winston Peters just can\u2019t seem to get on. Image: Joel MacManus\n<\/p>\n
It was a bad week for\u2026 the relationship between National and NZ First. After Winston Peters said Christopher Luxon was wrong to not warn him of Tuesday\u2019s motion of confidence, Luxon attacked NZ First saying they \u201cput Jacinda Ardern into power<\/a>\u201d. He seemed unaware of the fact that NZ First also put him into power. It was a bad week for\u2026 the National Party, which is still languishing below 30% in the polls and now doesn\u2019t even have the hopes of leadership change to turn things around.\u00a0 It was a bad week for\u2026 Sail GP fans. The government confirmed that it will not fund a race in Auckland in 2027<\/a>. Now how will people see expensive boats on the Auckland waterfront?\u00a0
\nIt was a good week for\u2026 Christopher Luxon, who managed to hold on as National Party leader by winning a confidence vote<\/a> in the party caucus. Afterwards, he held a two-minute press conference, lectured the media for every doubting him, and ran away without answering questions. The very epitome of strong and stable leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nIt was a bad week for\u2026 National\u2019s chief whip Stuart Smith<\/a>, who was suspected of leaking to the press. He missed Tuesday\u2019s pivotal caucus confidence vote due to what he described as a \u201clongstanding personal appointment\u201d. He would not specify the nature of the appointment, a rare piece of information Smith has declined to share with the media.\u00a0
\nIt was a good week for\u2026 butter chicken. NZ First MP Shane Jones, while railing against the India free trade agreement, said it would lead to a \u201ctsunami of butter chicken<\/a>\u201d. Some New Zealanders criticised him for race baiting, while others invited the idea, requesting that he add a volcano of rice and a landslide of cheesy garlic naan.\u00a0
\nIt was a bad week for\u2026 women in politics. Finance minister Nicola Willis received some inappropriate comments about her body from Shane Jones, who suggested she was \u201closing too much weight\u201d. When Willis mentioned a downgrade by Moody\u2019s<\/a>, he presumably thought she was talking about her time of the month.
\nIt was a good week for\u2026 wool. French fashion house Chanel invested in Otago\u2019s Lammermoor Station<\/a> to secure high-quality merino wool. Local farmers are excited that Swandri and stubbies now count as haute couture.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nIt was a bad week for\u2026 New Zealand Police, after a performance review found \u201cserious integrity and conduct failing<\/a>s\u201d and a perceived culture that holds senior officers to a \u201clesser standard than juniors\u201d. Senior officers are quietly considering whether to charge the reviewers with harassment.\u00a0
\nIt was a bad week for\u2026 Wellington, which was hit by yet another flood. The Spinoff\u2019s Hayden Donnell suggested it would be more efficient for New Zealand to just keep a state of emergency in place all the time. The government did not respond, presumably because they were dealing with another emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National leader Christopher Luxon and NZ First leader Winston Peters just can\u2019t seem to get on. Image: Joel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[139531,42,43,153291,135,12243,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-395528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-good-week-bad-week","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-news-of-the-week","tag-politics","tag-shane-jones","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}