Here is the replay of The Crunch from this week. My guests this week were Danny Simms, Kathryn Ennis-Carter and, of course, we have the Buddies. Enjoy! DANNY SIMMS: Farmer And Company Director: On Fijian Politics, Coups, And Parallels With NZ Farmer, company director and enthusiastic RCR listener Danny
Nicola Willis has delivered and saved her job after promising tax cuts during the election or she would resign. For the first time in a decade, we finally have a government that is going to take less from our pockets. Tax cuts are locked in. Budget 2024 has set aside
The latest Roy Morgan Poll should sound a warning to the Government, particularly the National Party. It is unpleasant reading but is not at all surprising given the constant media attacks on this Government. Roy Morgan’s New Zealand Poll for May 2024 shows support for the National-led Government
The Maori Party and their proxies are upping the ante in their racist rage, promising to block motorways and roads and go on strike as part of a protest against the democratically elected Government’s policies. Te Pati Maori co-leaders have pushed back on suggestions calls for people to
The political rhetoric coming from Maori is increasingly violent in tone and attitude. Te Pati Maori are using words like revolution and images of guns, along with the beating of war drums in their online advertising. They are promoting an organisation called Toitu Te Tiriti, and this is what they
You’d think that democratically elected mayors would respect democracy but it appears that they actually don’t. Fifty mayors have decided to write to the Government to tell them off for making sure that Maori wards on councils are utu to the people who are going to have to
Here is the replay of The Crunch from this week. My guests this week were Sandra Goudie, Dr. Michael Bassett and, of course, we have the Buddies. Enjoy! SANDRA GOUDIE: Former MP And Mayor Of Thames: On The Waitangi Tribunal’s Attempt To Expand Their Remit And Power DR MICHAEL
The Greens seem to be lurching from one crisis to the next. Golriz Ghahraman was nailed for pinching designer clothes, James Shaw quit in shame, Chloe Swarbrick chants racist and genocidal slogans, Marama Davidson is a racist misandrist, Ricardo ‘El Woko Loco’ Menandez-March has been swearing in parliament and
Kiri Allan told us all that she’d defend her charges, that there was a ‘technical point of law’ that needed to be explored in a trial, that she was innocent and that her case would prove that out. And then on the morning of the trial after months of
You have to give it to the opposition, not only are they trying to gaslight us all into believing they were sound economic managers but now they are hypocritically talking about smoke and mirrors for the up-coming budget. Labour finance spokeswoman Barbara Edmonds says she isn’t convinced the
The review of Kainga Ora has been released and it shows without a shadow of doubt that Labour and anyone from Labour, couldn’t run a bath or anything else for that matter. The report is damning and finds that the social housing system is not socially or financially sustainable.
Chloe Swarbrick went on Jack Tame’s show on Sunday as the Greens seek to influence, by their handmaidens in the media, the outcome of the looming Privileges Committee hearing into Julie Anne Genter’s misbehaviour both inside and outside the House. The matter of privilege arose when she crossed
Here is the replay of The Crunch from this week. My guests this week were Rachel Stewart, Shane Jones and Simon O’Connor and, of course, we have the Buddies. Enjoy! Rachel Stewart: Social Commentator And Blogger: On Protecting Women’s Spaces, J.K. Rowling And The Need For Men
One of the reasons I support charter schools, but not the only reason, is that they put the fear of God in to the teachers’ unions. And so, it is with some pleasure that I see that, right on cue, the teachers’ unions are saying they are afraid of the
On Tuesday I wrote about Winston’s no weirdos in women’s bathrooms bill. The Labour Party are all in on opposing this and I suggested that they should go for it, that Winston had the right of it. It turns out Winston and I were right. Family First commissioned
Christopher Luxon is really bad at reading the room, and so it is with his announcement regarding the changes to the Christchurch Call: Jacinda Ardern’s vanity project that seeks to censor and tightly control social media. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and French President Emmanuel Macron have announced
