Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson The Rural Communities Minister yesterday showed how fraught the Government’s land grab on Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) is. Private property rights are under threat thanks to the Government’s directive to councils to identify and manage SNAs. At the moment if someone’s
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson The Government is showing arrogance and hypocrisy when it comes to the timeframe for rolling out its so-called ‘Healthy Homes Standards. The Government has set a standard for private landlords to comply by 1 July this year. But when it comes to state
David Tuffley Griffith University Dr. David Tuffley is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity at Griffith University in Australia. David’s expertise is in the ethics of technology, in particular Artificial Intelligence, and managing data breaches in the cybersecurity domain. Australian and US law enforcement officials on Tuesday
Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust. Only lefty gang apologists would be surprised by the latest massive bust of drugs, guns, money, and gang members across New Zealand. In fact, in a hilarious move, the explanation coming from the Waikato Mongrel Mob public relations spokesperson for all of these arrests is
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Private property rights are under threat thanks to the Government’s directive to councils to identify and manage ‘Significant Natural Areas’. Farmers, iwi and many other property owners are concerned that councils can simply rezone and take land. This feeling was evident at a
Rachel Marsden rt.com Rachel Marsden, columnist, political strategist and host of an independently produced French-language program that airs on Sputnik France. Her website can be found at rachelmarsden.com There are now two types of people: Loyalists, who meekly obey all the new rules being brought in under
David Seymour ACT Leader The Climate Commission has run a poor process with its report, with a lack of public consultation and shutting out journalists. It’s imperative we have robust consultation and allow the media to hold the Government accountable, especially at a time where the Government is being
David Seymour ACT Leader The Climate Commission wants the Government to ban and tax its way out of climate change. The report recommends banning vehicles with internal combustion engines, banning new gas connections, reducing herd sizes and increasing taxes through the feebate scheme. If the Government wants to do what’
It is with great concern that I write this but I feel compelled to do so, before the subsequent change in hate speech laws. These laws will basically curtail any and all debate over such issues as a report that will, without any consultation with the majority of the voting
Brooke van Velden ACT’s Housing spokeswoman Housing Minister Megan Woods has today told Parliament she’s written a $30 million cheque for Ihumatao with taxpayers’ money but has absolutely no idea how it will be spent. I asked the Minister at Select Committee how many houses are projected to
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson It’s no wonder organised crime is running amok with new data showing the gangs are recruiting faster than Police. The number of gang members on the National Gang List has exploded since Labour took office, with 2,663 more people on the list since
David Seymour ACT Leader Each crossing of the proposed new Auckland cycle bridge will cost $50. I asked Jacinda Ardern yesterday if she would continue to support the cycleway if it cost $10 a crossing. She said she expects there to be 3000 cyclists a day, which would be $12.
In their training rooms they cry, “Pitch it high watch it die, pitch it low watch it grow.” Why should they control what the market gets told on value, enabling them to create frenzies? An auction in Auckland listed recently in the script stated “priced to Sell CV $1,340,
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In previous articles, we have investigated the brand new app that The Human Rights Commission and The Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand have put together. The first module was an introductory one and contained the usual fallacy of assuming disparities in ethnic outcomes are
David Seymour ACT Leader It is not too late for the Government to dump the Climate Commission’s advice, set a cap to reduce emissions in line with our partners, and let New Zealanders choose how they live, travel, and work within that cap. ACT was the only party to
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