April, again a busy month with quite a few things happening at all fronts;

• A number of decisions from the RRA and RRB with the majority disallowed due to not meeting exceptional circumstances
• Criticism on the new INZ policy
• ANZAC commemorations overshadowed by helicopter crash prompting the PM to come home earlier
• One in five people in the insurance industry is leaving the profession due to regulation (does that sound similar?)
• Fags and booze, i.e. the liquor report and the possible outfall and increases in tobacco prices
• Possible new rules around student and work permits
• Student loans
• More trouble for Telecom
• Volcanic ashes stopping air travel costing well over 200Milion per day and resulting in delayed deliveries of exports
• UN declaration for indigenous people signed by NZ
• John Key visiting the USA for talks on trade and nukes with many reactions from the opposition
• Recognition of migrant workers
• The Whanau Ora seen to attack social inequalities under Maori
• NZ's apple victory over Australia
• Visitor numbers to NZ are up
• Liverpool (and Arsenal) soccerclubs up for sale
• Strong views on privately run prisons
• Discussions that the economy still in the dolldrums
• Ex-ministers facing charges
• Increase in the driving age
• Seabed and foreshore issue raising its head again
• Former immigration boss sentenced
• Start of the tablet computer wars
• Licencing of the financial industry (hope they have less issues with their controlling authority)
• Increase in violent crimes

Wishing you all a blessed Easter with some time to reflect on what Easter all means for you and your loved ones. See you again next month.