Bishop’s mullet-wearing days symbolise a genuine Kiwi identity: authentic, relatable and approachable, versus Luxon, who is often perceived as a career politician lacking that essential Kiwi connection.
She is asking for the bill to be withdrawn and rewritten or amendments put into existing legislation: the Hazardous Substance and New Organisms Act 1996.
They are planning to take you on ‘a journey’ into a society with more surveillance and more taxes. The select committee is receiving feedback on the current bill until 27 April 2025. This is an opportunity to let central government know your concerns and show the determination of the opposition.
If parents actually had to choose – if they weren’t forced to fund schools pushing values they don’t believe in – many of these secular approaches would die a quiet death in the free marketplace of ideas. They don’t work. That’s why they need to be forcibly subsidised.
So for the sake of an implement used for stirring, I fear I could become the stirred rather than the stirrer.
Voters who find themselves disappointed in the current government should realise that these parties are actually delivering what they promised – for all the talk of efficiency, they never promised real change. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Next time you hear people scoff at Trump and his knowledge (or lack of it) on Europe just reflect on how different the outcome may have been if Britain had stayed aloof and watched Hitler and Stalin bash each other to death.
Porirua’s leaders must ask themselves if their community really wants to immortalise a man who traded in human lives?
NIWA says January 2025 was the coolest January since 2017 and the coldest January on record for six locations.
