Immigration Biometrics Project Waste

Quite like the jams in the background. Um I am fascinated. I cannot tell you how fascinated I am by the Pauline Hansen phenomenon. Because Pauline's been around. I mean, Paul Lee's been around since before you and I were here. Do you know what I mean? She she remembers when Jesus was a baby. She'd been around that long. And so we remember what Pauline has been like this whole time, and how everybody, Pauline gave everybody the yick. And now all of a sudden everybody wants to vote for Pauline. And that's quite a big turnaround. That's quite that. And I I haven't seen any kind of massive rebranding that's gone on. Pauline's not got herself a new frock and a new haircut, you know what I mean? Still Pauline selling the same old wares. I'm fascinated by how you get people to change their minds about you. Anyway, we'll see how that plays out of the next few years. Um, four away from five. Here, the baby scans are already free at most places for community service goal uh cardholders. Midwives also give out vouchers if you can't afford it. And if a midwife or a doctor requests a scan, it's also free. Now, I'm not sure about the last point. That's from Ben. I don't know that I've had I've I've never had it free, so and it's been requested by them. But it is it is absolutely true. If you have a community services card, which basically says you are, you know, you need you need some help financially, you do get it free. And in certain parts, or like certain of the DHBs air quotes, you are able to get your community, you are able to ask for assistance if you need it. In which case, I'm just wondering if we're getting into the same same territory here with Labour as the public's the public transport stuff. Because I don't know if you've worked this out, but it affects about 50,000 people, right? The public transport policy of 20 cap affects 50,000 people. That's one percent of the population. Entire press gallery thinks it's wonderful. They're like, oh, that's a great people are gonna love it. Well, no, probably not, because it's only one percent of the population who are actually affected by this. And I wonder if we're getting into the same territory here, where this sounds really great. Oh, look at how kind you are. You're helping pregnant ladies, but then it works out like five people get affected by it. It's a really small small cohort. Anyway, we've got Aisha Veryl with us um shortly just after five o'clock. But first up, the uh immigration minister Erica Stanford on what her officials have been up to, trying to fudge the numbers and mislead her. News talk ZB.