Nanny State National getting worse, thanks Nanny State Nikki
National is becoming more and more like the last days of the Helen Clark government.
They are focussing on silly regulatory issues, like kitchen facilities at child care centres.
Early childhood centre managers are questioning a new law that means they will have to pay thousands of dollars to be allowed to cook and serve food on their premises.
Under the Food Act 2014 and Food Regulations 2015, Early childhood education (ECE) centres that serve food prepared by staff had until March 31 to register with their local council or the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). Read more »

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
To read Cam’s previous articles click on his name in blue.