Former Act Party MP Heather Roy and political analyst John AZ Moore join the Democracy Project’s Geoffrey Miller to review the 2020 New Zealand election campaign – and to give their predictions for election night
Former Act MP and Associate Minister of Defence Heather Roy joins the Democracy Project’s Geoffrey Miller to discuss the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the new Defence Capability Plan and the current direction of New Zealand’s foreign policy.
By Geoffrey Miller A former MP and Associate Minister of Defence says that New Zealand’s Covid-19 border and quarantine issues illustrate why a new dedicated national security agency is needed. Heather Roy, a former deputy leader of the Act Party who held the associate defence portfolio from 2008-10, told the Democracy Project podcast that a …
Without so much as a bang or even a whimper, New Zealand essentially became a socialist state at 11.59pm on Wednesday 25 March 2020. We’d been primed, given time to plan and get back home in time for the lockdown we all hope will win the war against COVID-19. People are confined to their homes, …
