Paying tolls is a fair and easy way to help pay off recently built roads, bridges, and tunnels. Last week Judith Collins announced a four-lane roading infrastructure plan. She indicated that these roads may be tolled. The Transport Agency currently has three toll roads: The Northern Gateway Toll Road
NZ Initiative nzinitiative.org.nz Wellington, 23 July 2020 – New Zealand needs to ‘raft up’ with other COVID-free countries while building stronger border capabilities, according to a new report by The New Zealand Initiative. And a voucher programme for helping returning Kiwis cover the cost of managed isolation could
Recently bygeorge wrote a piece with the headline “Middle New Zealand Has Stirred from Its Slumber”. It expressed optimism that middle New Zealand was waking up to the socialist zealotry and ineptitude of the present Government. Like many, I hope that is true and the increasingly socialist nightmare of this
COVID Plan B covidplanb.co.nz In a stunning interview, Professor Carl Heneghan from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford says: “If you follow the New Zealand policy of suppressing it to zero and locking down the country forever, then you’re going to have a problem… This
The Associate Minister of Transport, Green MP Julie Anne Genter, wants to keep spending taxpayers’ money in inappropriate ways. While the country suffers the worst economic crisis for 100 years, she wants to spend money on non-essentials. At present, New Zealand needs government spending that is conducive to growing
Leighton Baker Leader New Conservative It may already be a little bit too late, but New Zealand has a big decision to make in regards to the future of our nation. Long term freedom or short term finance? With tensions in the South Pacific growing daily and the US sending
Geoff Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays
Rick Giles ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz The History of New Zealand through a Libertarian Anarchist lens. On 24 October, 1992, The Mt Cavendish Gondola was open for business and is still running today under the name Christchurch Gondola. You can be seated in a gondola basket on a return trip
We face an economic disaster, the likes of which most have never experienced in their lifetime. The financial blowout is the result of Jacinda Ardern’s decision to lock down healthy people and businesses, as well as the policies of her socialist Labour Government’s out-of-control spending and
Ryszard Piotrowicz Aberystwyth University Uighur women in China’s Xinjiang province who have more than the approved number of children are being forcibly sterilised, forced to have abortions or having intra-uterine contraceptive devices (IUDs) inserted without their consent, according to reports that have emerged in recent weeks. The birth
Michael Plank, University of Canterbury Alex James, University of Canterbury Audrey Lustig, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Nicholas Steyn; Rachelle Binny, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research and Shaun Hendy Stringent border controls and mandatory quarantine give New Zealand a good chance to remain free of COVID-19 for months to come, according
Changes in the National Party leadership have brought to the fore, in the media at least, some important questions: * To what extent should one’s standing in a political party be based on merit? * To what extent on gender? * To what extent on indigenousness? (race being too broad a term)
Graham Hill MA (Hons) LLB (Hons) Victor Klemperer was a Jewish Professor of Literature at a Dresden University in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1947, having survived the Nazi regime, he published a book titled Lingua Tertii Imperii: Notizbuch eines Philologen (The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist’s
Terry Dunleavy Hon Secretary, New Zealand Climate Science Coalition I have just finished reading Five Things Judith Collins has said on Climate Change on Stuff, and my message for its new CEO Sinead Boucher is that if this is an example of journalistic standards of accuracy, enlightenment and fairness, then
Information Satire Dhuni Early Tuesday morning an empty car pulled up to Parliament and Ted Mullet got out to announce that he never really existed #IfALeftistNationalMPFallsInTheForest #DoesAnybodyCare. By late evening the vacuum in space left by the man who never existed was filled when the National Party selected Jude “Crusher
tutere44 pointofordernz.wordpress.com Back from the dead? National backbenchers, particularly those down the party list, might be breathing again— now that Judith Collins has taken control, after the political trauma of the past few weeks. Party stalwarts, some of whom had been drifting off to the ACT party, are
