Taxpayers’ Union Grant Robertson’s “no new taxes” promise is well and truly out the window. First, it was new taxes on landlords, then it was a levy on wages to fund unemployment insurance, and now there’s a new tax on petrol vehicles: The car tax unfairly hits tradies,
Taxpayers’ Union Our petition to withdraw taxpayer funding for the proposed $685 million cycle and pedestrian bridge has now reached 56,000 signatures. That’s incredible, and it shows the depth of public opposition to such a brazenly wasteful vanity project. Our “Stop SkyPath” billboards are currently hammering the message
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz The government has announced that six transport projects from the NZ Upgrade Programme announced in January 2020, will not go ahead. Mill Road four lane widening has been cancelled. This project was progressed under a National government so that it should have broken
Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister This week, we announced the next steps in our COVID-19 vaccination rollout. In case you missed the news, I wanted to send you a quick update on what it means for you and your family. The COVID vaccine rollout is the largest and most complex vaccination
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Catch up on the latest in politics with our Week in Review below. * Labour’s Car tax will unfairly punish New Zealanders * National will reverse interest deductibility changes * No more excuses for the Govt’s vaccine shambles * Labour lacking action on Firearm Prohibition Orders Labour’s Car Tax Will Unfairly
Hobson’s Pledge Trust Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little’s coastal give-away fast-track looks like yet another step in the progress of the He Puapua plan to set up two governments under a tribal monitoring committee. The other steps are: 1. The abolition of the right of local communities to
Hobson’s Pledge Trust The expected time to transfer the entire coast of New Zealand to small groups of people with Maori ancestry will reduce from 100 years to 30 years after Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little caved in to pressure from the Waitangi Tribunal. The Tribunal criticised insufficient funding
Hobson’s Pledge Trust When National Party MP Paul Goldsmith unfashionably remarked, last Tuesday, that colonisation benefited Maori, the howls of outrage from some Maori MPs were hysterical, and quaint, considering their generous salaries and perks courtesy of the coloniser system are proof of advantage. Former Labour Cabinet Minister Michael
School Strike 4 Climate Auckland Discussion of Racism School Strike 4 Climate Auckland is disbanding as an organisation. This is under the suggestion and guidance of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) members of our group, as well as individual BIPOC activists and organisations. We are not holding
Free Press ACT Party The Haps The Climate Change Commission recommends carbon emissions reduce 63 per cent in 14 years, while the economy and population continue to grow, regardless of what happens to emissions in other countries. Meanwhile, in the real world, the lights are kept on by the largest
Israel Institute of New Zealand As you know, we’ve been drawing attention to the issue of New Zealand funding hate for years – see a timeline at israelinstitute.nz/2021/01/a-timeline-of-new-zealand-funding-hate/ Despite decades of evidence we put to them, in November 2020, MFAT officials told us they were waiting
speakupforwomen.nz Dear School Counsellors, We represent a group of women, including parents, grandparents, educators, social workers, and other professionals, who are very concerned about the effects of social and medical gender transition on young people. A powerful and fashionable narrative is increasingly convincing our youth, particularly young girls, that
Perry Trotter Israel Institute of New Zealand The war is over. And yet it isn’t. For now, there is quiet, but few things are more predictable than that there will be another salvo issuing from the Gaza Strip. As I write, civilians on both sides are likely grateful for
ACT Party Free Press The Haps The CCP’s outlook is deteriorating. The Wuhan lab leak investigation seems pointless, but it will cast them as a global pariah. Sinovac has failed. Chinese fertility is 1.3 but the CCP is pointlessly allowing a third child. Our government has hosed money
Daniel McAdams Executive Director Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity A little over a week ago I honestly was not sure whether my Fauci-as-Icarus metaphor would bear itself out. The attention-seeking bureaucrat, lionized and canonized by what has become essentially a religious cult centred around a new virus that
