Willie Jackson is a motor mouth with a poor memory. Just a few weeks ago he was attacking Melissa Lee and calling her ‘useless’, ‘stupid’ and ‘incompetent’, and yesterday he was waxing lyrical about her skill set after Christopher Luxon sacked her as Broadcasting Minister. Make your mind up Willie!
Chris Hipkins has the worst job in politics, Opposition Leader. But he has made the worst job even more unbearable with his often hysterical hyperbole as he seeks to convince everyone that the Government is on the rocks. Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the demotion of two ministers today shows
By Cameron Slater ( *republished) I made this video some time ago for Skippy, my father-in-law. Some of the photos in the video were taken by him at Nui Dat. He was an Aussie serving with the NZ Army…he trained at Puckapunyal, Canungra and Singleton…many of the
My father-in-law Skippy fought in the Battle of Long Tan. This is the documentary made by Martin Walsh of that battle.
In 2015 Dad and I were at the dawn ceremony at ANZAC Cove and then the service at Chunuk Bair. I carried the medals of my great-grandfather Harry Crozier with me. It was 100 years since ANZAC troops set foot on the Gallipoli peninsula in that ill-fated campaign.
This is my ANZAC Day tribute posting. ANZAC Day means a great deal for me and my family. I suppose it is because we have a connection to the original ANZACS in 1915 and Gallipoli, and to a veteran of a war much fresher in our minds, Vietnam. Firstly, I
While the Government moves to honour an election promise by introducing legislation to bring back the Three Strikes laws, Labour is hell-bent on proving that they are the party for the criminal classes in New Zealand. The opposition has laid into the government’s plan to reintroduce a “three
Peter Dunne writes at Newsroom about the problems facing Labour. They are plentiful but can be summed up into two main categories: nastiness and incompetence. Dunne starts with Chris Hipkins; after all, the buck is supposed to stop at the top. Labour leader Chris Hipkins looks mostly at sea in
If you ever wanted proof of the disconnect of the elites, look no further than the blaming of the public for the ongoing failure of the legacy media, rather than being introspective about seeking whom to blame. Then there is the empirical evidence of the IPSOS research company that carries
Most Kiwis prefer their past Prime Ministers to either be dead or silent, but since Helen Clark shuffled off in ignominy in 2008 after being trounced in the election by John Key, neither she nor Key have managed to put a cork in it. Bill English thankfully has barely uttered
The media luvvies are all exercised about the pending job losses in the state sector. It’s a shame that they weren’t similarly exercised about job losses in the private sector as a result of ill-considered Labour Government actions, like the oil and gas exploration ban. Liam Hehir
The Government is swinging the axe hard, cutting more than 1000 state sector jobs in a single day yesterday. Even with these cuts, the state sector will still be larger than in 2017 when Labour took office. The Government should, and indeed must, cut more: The Ministry of Education has
Apparently, Stuff has come riding to the rescue of Newshub, inking a deal to produce news for the failing network. Presumably, Sinead Boucher came riding in on a dead horse: The 6pm TV3 news has been saved – but it will have a totally new look and will be provided by
Yesterday the Government announced a vitally important policy…a policy that is needed before any other policies or law changes…a policy to allow renters to have pets. Seriously, that’s exactly what Chris Bishop and David Seymour think is vitally important legislation, right now! The Government says it is
The NZ Herald had an editorial over the weekend that read like a desperate plea for Labour to come and assist them in opposing the Government. It really is quite strange but then again, after the Trust Survey revealed that no one trusts them anymore mainly because they’ve become
Willie Jackson, who regularly engages his mouth before his brain, has called Broadcasting Minister Melissa Lee “stupid”. He is making out that Melissa Lee has no idea of how to save the media, while he has all the answers. Willie Jackson, the Labour Party MP who was in charge of
