Kevin Stitt National Administrator New Conservative Christmas already! Seems hard to believe. But it is true. It is not fake news. And I hope you are looking forward to a break and some down time with family where possible, enjoying relationships and some summer sun, with slip slop slap of
Your property is safe On Wednesday, Parliament voted to shut itself down until 11 February next year. New Zealanders are temporarily safe from MPs’ ‘solutions’ to our problems. Politics in Full Sentences is also taking a break, but not before we look back on 12 months of freedom fighting. Writing
Press release: National Party Te Papa’s Chair Hon. Dame Fran Wilde has disappointedly failed to apologise for the museum’s misleading water display, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Todd Muller says. “Farmers have been rightfully upset about the museum’s decision to use a bottle of dyed brown water to
Press release: New Zealand Climate Science Coalition The potential credibility and standing of the Climate Change Commission announced by Minister James Shaw has been fatally undermined by the inclusion of four full-time climate change careerists and campaigners, according to the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. “The statutory role of the
NZ First We’ve got some great news. Public submissions are open for Darroch Ball’s Protection for First Responders and Correction Officers Bill. The Bill proposes a mandatory minimum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment for those who assault first responders and corrections officers, and passed its first reading in
Press Release: Mesh Down Under Tangible Concrete Commitments… Where Are They? The use of surgical mesh for medical procedures has come under increasing scrutiny around the world because of high complication rates and problems with patient safety. Consumer advocacy group Mesh Down Under has been lobbying since 2012 for practical
Press release: Hobson’s Pledge There is not the slightest justification for allocating any resource which is the common property of all New Zealanders on the basis of race, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said yesterday. In a deal announced Monday, Telcos will be able to bid for 160MHz
Press Release: ACT Party “National should be congratulated for raising the idea of congestion charging but it must go further and commit to rolling it out in its first term of government”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT has pushed for road pricing for several years, but both major
Press release: National Party National will remedy Labour’s neglect of New Zealand’s highways by reigniting our Roads of National Significance build programme and introducing a new category of funding for Roads of Regional Significance, Transport spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “National is the Party that builds roads. The previous
ACT Party Politics in Full Sentences, We’re Number One The left love to say we are lightly taxed compared with European welfare states. But what about the countries that we do business with most? Well, New Zealand is the most heavily-taxed country in the Asia-Pacific. Central and local government
Press release: New Conservatives Brexit is taking its toll on the people of Britain as the politicians charged with representing them have continually failed to honour the referendum and the expressed desire of the voting population. In New Zealand, we know how that feels as no government in New Zealand
Don Brash Co-spokeperson for the Hobson’s Pledge Trust On the 8th of December, in commenting on the decision by New Zealand First to vote against his Bill to entrench the Maori electorates, Te Tai Tonga MP Tino Tirikatene accused that party of pandering to anti-treaty rights group Hobson’s
Press release: NZ First Darroch Ball’s Protection for First Responders and Prison Officers Bill, which toughens penalties for assaults on first responders and corrections officers, passed its first reading in Parliament this week. Every year, thousands of police, ambulance and corrections officers are assaulted. And it’s increasing. In
Press release: NZ First Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Civil Defence Minister Peeni Henare on Wednesday announced the deployment of a network of DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) buoys. “New Zealand and the Pacific region are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters. It is vital we have adequate
Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition With the Prime Minister confirming that hate speech legislation will be put forward to Parliament before next year’s election, it is easy to feel pessimistic about the fight for free speech rights. But there are glimmers of hope in the political market.
Press release: ACT Party “The Finance and Expenditure Committee’s interim report on the Arms Legislation Bill is a small victory for common sense”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “While ACT continues to oppose the bill, the fact that the committee is now listening to firearms owners and proposing
