National party MP Nick Smith has accused the government of rushing changes in electoral law to advantage the coalition’s re-election. He called the move “sneaky” and pointed out that it was being done in an unprecedented way and against convention.
In the past, changes to the electoral law only happened after extensive cross-party consultation. Smith said that the government are “riding roughshod” over the process and that cabinet has pre-empted the decision.
We believe the review by the Ministry of Health is designed to expand euthanasia/PAS in New Zealand. You have until 5pm Thursday, 26 September 2024, to submit your view, so please find 10 minutes and complete it today.
Why did they waste millions of taxpayer dollars on a doomed ‘murder’ trial? And should they be sued for defamation?
If iwi keep inventing new privileges under Article Two of the Treaty, then the Crown should use Article Three which says that Māori rights and duties are the same as those of everyone else.
A jury at the Auckland High Court has found Dr Philip Polkinghorne not guilty of killing his wife, Pauline Hanna, in their Remuera home in April 2021.
We believe the review by the Ministry of Health is designed to expand euthanasia/PAS in New Zealand. You have until 5pm Thursday, 26 September 2024, to submit your view, so please find 10 minutes and complete it today.
Tocqueville was generous, both with his biting criticisms and his reverent praises, whereby as a matter of necessity due to one social system springing out of the other – like Athena from the head of Zeus – the democratic experiment was compared most obviously with its aristocratic parent.
