Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s first major reshuffle since forming the government in December 2023 is set to shift focus to health and economic challenges, with Shane Reti expected to lose the health portfolio to Simeon Brown.
While Reti will remain in Cabinet with reduced ranking and new portfolios, Brown is poised to take over the demanding health ministerial post, shedding some of his current roles, says a report in legacy media today.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis is likely to gain a broader economic growth portfolio, while Judith Collins may inherit her public service role.
Two to three “significant changes” are anticipated, including one new minister outside Cabinet.
The reshuffle will not affect coalition partners NZ First and Act but aims to refine National’s leadership team to address major deficits and governance issues in health and the economy.
Reti is a c***** moron obviously, and good riddance.
With all due respect to Christopher Luxon, he really needs to fire himself.
Luxon is simply a desperately stupid incapable feeble-minded woke cretin.
NZ has an economically blind government.
Builders and other trades have little or no work.
Retail has crashed.
There is an overwhelming number of vacant properties throughout the nation.
Bankruptcy closing down and forced property sale is widely prevalent.
The food distribution cartel seems to be doing well. People are not. People are skipping meals and surviving on noodles.
People have left for Australia.
This is the tipping point where Luxton and his team realise their own employment is now on the cards.
My suggestion is cut taxes to stimulate the economy and to legislate Audi to take over at least 70 key retail food distribution supermarkets.
We are taxed when we receive pay.
We are taxed when we spend money.
We are taxed when own land.
We are taxed with road user charges.
Mum and dad property investors are taxed on money they did not receive. i.e. Still can’t deduct 50% of interest costs.
We still have far too much nonsense compliance for business.
The Wellington city council needs to be dismissed and new elections held.
When government was cut, those jobs were replaced with nothing.
Economies can not perform when they are overtaxed, overregulated and food distribution is restricted to 2.
Get suitable immigration moving.
Let’s identify taxes shall we?
Income tax
GST
ACC
Excise on petrol or road user charges plus, car registration (boat/trailer/caravan). Toll road fees. Bear in mind that these taxes also include GST, so tax upon tax here.
Council rates
Building contribution
Dog registration
School fees
Excise on alcohol
Customs fees…………….
What did I miss??? I am sure there are plenty.
With all these taxes we should be living on streets paved in gold. Except the mining rites for this gold has been given to off shore entities. NZ resources should belong to all New Zealanders, right?
No construction work because anything homeowners want done needs permission from the councils. Cut the regulations and put the control back in the private industry. I don’t want to pay people to police us. Over-reach of our government and local councils must stop.
Its not just the building industry. There are authorities in every industry full of junior inexperienced unemployable unqualified dickheads. The authorities need to end and allow self-regulation with a practical workable and quick resolution system rather than a forever court based persecution that blocks up the courts, and makes lawyers and insurance companies multimillionaires. All that is bureaucracy and creates nothing for the nation.
The other knock on is people move away from risk and overheads and pass on these costs to the end user.
The ministry of regulation is up and running but I am yet to hear of their achievements.
With you on everything but that last point.
The “we desperately need immigration” nonsense is another big government/big media lie. It’s precisely what is driving rents up and wages down, fueling tax increases and inflation and making it so nice and cosy for the politicians that they get to indulge themselves in pet projects like carbon taxes and selling us off to Blackrock instead of properly managing the country.
NO MORE IMMIGRATION. We can’t build houses fast enough, we are full. There are enough of us here to do any and all work required. And if we require training, then spend the money to train people up instead of pissing it away on light rail, climate friendly windmills and flying half of cabinet to Davos for caviar once a year.
The government needs to learn to work better with less money, to “tighten their belts” as they keep telling US to do. They need to calm their hard on for censorship and accept that openly BS’ing us to our faces just doesn’t work the way it used to anymore. They need to get used to being accountable to their constituents once more instead of just laughing and waving us off while they systematically replace us with low IQ imports who don’t ask pesky questions like “where’s my tax money going?”
If you want to address all the issues you listed above, the establishment’s staunchly defended immigration racket first has to go.
I agree no more immigration, none of us wanted it. It’s all part of the plan by the globalists to ruin New Zealand culture and destroy everything that was created by our ancestors. Now successive governments have let the kiwi no hopers sit around and do nothing and flood our country with low rent low skilled people from 3rd world countries. National and labour as bad as each other.
In Rotorua we have over 2000 empty homes yet they claim we have a housing problem. The only problem is that we have become the dumping ground for the human detritus created by the welfare system from the rest of the country. We have homeless in motels and visitors in air bnb houses. It’s wrecked our tourism industry, empty homes should be taxed. Homes are for living in. There is a house a few doors down from me, no one has been in it for 3 years. Some landlord in Auckland.
We should never have allowed foreigners to buy property and we should not be importing people for retail jobs or fruit picking etc. make the lazy kiwis work.
As for Luxon, pathetic weak little Humpty Dumpty. Put there just like a key was by the globalists. He needs to go. He can take that skinny wife with the shoulder revealing tops with him. She reminds me of Megan markle wearing inappropriate clothing and a strained look on her face. Hideous.
I won’t be ever giving national my vote ever again. They have become completely detached from their founding principles one of which is self responsibility.
Are we meant to be impressed that our current corporate state government CEO has played musical chairs with current board members?
Where is New Zealand’s Javier Milei?
Lawmakers and especially the minister have a responsibility to act for the vulnerable in our society.
Reshuffle the NZ family court and its vasalles!
It is a secret mafia, including lawyers, womens refuge, Orangi Tamariki, ‘experts’, etc., operating under the veil of privacy, oppressing and victimizing 100s of children and their fathers.
How that mafia EXACTLY works? (this is UK and three years ago; the NZ system here has advanced and is even more subversive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDXvVrQeLt4
and some advice from a fighter
https://youtu.be/U8trrecXAF0
Winston, where the hell are you? Could get some mana tackling that injustice swamp.
They truly are an underwhelming lot of Corporate hacks aren’t they? At least Labour stood for apartheid, racism and the ethnostate – the sickos stood clearly for social breakdown. Their replacements wear different suits and sing different songs but the end game is the same. Ohhhhhhh what bas+-&$s they are…