Editorial: Bill English's mixed bagCHRIS SKELTON/FAIRFAX NZ New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English gives his State of the Nation speech in Auckland. OPINION: Prime Minister Bill English tried to accomplish a fair bit with his "state of the nation" speech, a calm, confident but also somewhat disjointed statement of priorities. In fact, it doesn't sit easily with all the social investment talk. Improving police attendance rates at burglaries, to take one example from English's speech, is not an especially preventive (or useful) policy. There are certainly still questions about "social investment", including a new sort of technocratic over-confidence it seems to imply.

Source: Stuff February 02, 2017 16:03 UTC