\u201cI think \u2018social innovation\u2019 is the key to our future. Not protection of the vested interests of the past. We have to be brave,\u201d he said in his remarks, which were also posted on his Substack.<\/p>\n
Then he quoted from Shakespeare\u2019s play Measure for Measure.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what we need to do in our economy today and these two are about as good as you\u2019ll get in leading us in that direction: Marama and Chl\u00f6e.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campbell is a top-shelf director but lost his job chairing Health New Zealand under the last Labour Government after airing personal opinions on Three Waters, his action being deemed to have breached neutrality requirements.<\/p>\n
Chris Hipkins and Max Harris campaigning in T\u0101maki. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n
National targets Labour brain-box candidate<\/p>\n
Just when you thought the tax wars had died down, National campaign manager Simeon Brown targeted prominent Labour activist and T\u0101maki candidate Max Harris, suggesting he would press for more taxes if elected.<\/p>\n
In a press statement, Brown quoted from an old Spinoff article Harris wrote in 2018: \u201cIf tax is love then New Zealand needs to show a lot more affection.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris, a lawyer, author and former Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from Oxford University, responded: \u201cThis is just desperation. The people here are focusing on the cost of living. That\u2019s what we heard today. That\u2019s what we should be focusing on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Labour campaign chairman Kieran McAnulty has claimed National policies over the past three years have led to Kiwi households being $6000 a year worse off<\/a>, although the figure does not account for income rises, from tax cuts for example, or lower interest rates. Labour dismissed suggestions of adopting National\u2019s tactics. <\/p>\n New Zealand\u2019s interest or NZ First\u2019s interest?<\/p>\n Foreign Minister and NZ First leader Winston Peters has been slammed for requiring New Zealand to join a tiny minority of countries abstaining on a UN vote on pandemic preparedness.<\/p>\n Labour leader Chris Hipkins called it embarrassing, showing cowardice and an example of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon embracing conspiracy theories as New Zealand Government positions.<\/p>\n Luxon, no doubt mindful of coalition cracks, washed his hands of it, insisting it was the prerogative of the Foreign Minister alone. Herald political editor Thomas Coughlan suggested in a press conference it was a weak position for a Prime Minister to take. <\/p>\n Campaign quiz<\/p>\n Name the four MPs standing in the Epsom electorate.<\/p>\n Looking ahead<\/p>\n Wednesday: Luxon and Hipkins will be campaigning in Auckland ahead of the NZ Herald Leaders\u2019 Debate hosted by Ryan Bridge at 7pm on the Herald website, Three and Three Now.<\/p>\n Thursday: Shane Jones has public meetings in Queenstown in the morning and Gore in the afternoon. David Seymour will be campaigning in Queenstown, Cromwell and W\u0101naka.<\/p>\n Quiz Answer: Act\u2019s David Seymour, National\u2019s Paul Goldsmith, Labour\u2019s Camilla Belich and the Greens\u2019 Lawrence Xu-Nan.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss these stories <\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to know more about National\u2019s fiscal plan released on Monday, read this smart analysis<\/a> <\/a>by political editor Thomas Coughlan. And if you\u2019d like to know how Hipkins answered the question \u201cIs David Seymour an arrogant prick\u201d, you can read all about it here<\/a> from Adam Pearse, who spent a day campaigning with Hipkins in Manawat\u016b. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think \u2018social innovation\u2019 is the key to our future. Not protection of the vested interests of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,1738,5981,72765,40671,51691,5903,74833,3011,2518,100809,5511,700,26477,111,43,139,69,4762,8238,698,4518,1845,102],"class_list":["post-629453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2246","tag-campaign","tag-daily","tag-diary","tag-draw","tag-edition","tag-election","tag-endorsement","tag-four","tag-green","tag-highlevel","tag-just","tag-latest","tag-leaders","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-party","tag-under","tag-until","tag-weeks","tag-welcome","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629453","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=629453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}New Zealand First leader and Foreign Minister Winston Peters. Photo \/ George Heard<\/p>\n