Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made the extraordinary claim that her government is the most committed to delivering progressive change since the mid-1970s. In other words, she is comparing her government to the Labour government of Norman Kirk and Bill Rowling. Norman Kirk’s Labour government came into power after
Apparently, if a minister fails to make progress on a portfolio the answer is to appoint an entire team of ministers to fail to make progress on the portfolio. A negative times a negative makes a positive in maths but I don’t think that multiplying failure by a large
* Phil Twyford loses his Housing portfolio * Phil Twyford gains the Economic development portfolio * Minister Megan Woods gains a hospital pass…the reset of the KiwiFail KiwiBuild program. ( But has a team of ministers to assist her) * David Parker loses the Economic development portfolio * Kris Faafoi’s gains responsibility for Government
Bob Jones at his blog No Punches Pulled has a rollicking good tale to tell about what happens when a person using the free gym services he provides complains that a poster on the wall is inappropriate… Read this and weep. My company is proud of the reputation it’s
It is official. The pile on by Australian Rugby and the media has now made it to the level of Folau Derangement Syndrome. Some commenters have referred to the Streisand effect but it is much more than just that. The latest development is that those who seek to stop Israel
Israel Folau is not going down quietly or friendless and alone. Despite being deplatformed and refused access to a second fundraising platform he has already raised over 1.8 million Australian dollars as of 4pm yesterday. Ordinary people see his stance as a principled battle for free speech and freedom
Paul Goldsmith is NOT a retail politician. He’s drier than a week’s old toast. He may be smart but his emotional quotient is non-existent. When he was in Auckland Council he would go canvassing and door knocking and would wind up arguing, loudly, with Labour supporters. He is
Crybaby one decided to try to save money with a do it yourself funeral but things went terribly wrong. Instead of accepting that it was a job best left to the professionals the crybaby instead ran to the media to say that the system is broken. […] he wanted a dignified
The revolver which Vincent Van Gogh allegedly used to shoot himself has sold for almost three times more than its anticipated selling price. Sold in Paris last week for 130,000 Euros or $145,700 the revolver was said to be the pistol the troubled Dutch painter used to shoot
What a messy interview. Simon Bridges really needs to go. He dances around a maypole dodging questions about Luxon. His learned lines that he parrots are obvious. It was the same on TVNZ yesterday morning. His arguing with the host is cringeworthy. He fails the no dickheads rule. As for
I highly doubt that National politician Amy Adams is leaving to spend more time with her family. That is a hackneyed old excuse used by almost every politician on the planet when they resign. She was in the leadership race only recently, so she clearly had intended to stay with
GoFundMe has pulled the rug out from under Israel Folau’s fundraising page, taking away the over $700,000 Australian dollars that had been donated to his legal defence. I believe that we all should have the freedom to donate to whatever cause we choose, and so does Martyn Iles
Anneka Carlson is standing for New Plymouth District Council and is using social media to get her message heard. I stumbled across one of her messages and I thought that it would stimulate a debate here on Whaleoil. Let’s Talk Politics The key points that I see are these:
The Euthanasia debate is a complex one. I have gone through the various articles published about it last week and have organised them into two posts to present both sides of the argument. This post contains articles against Euthanasia. Euthanasia bill would be ripe for exploitation by the selfish and
Israel Folau has been smeared repeatedly by the media as homophobic and his tweet has been deliberately mischaracterized as homophobic. They even described his speech in his home church as homophobic when it was anything but. Those two lies, however, are not the biggest lies told by the media. The
Amy Adams is retiring at the 2020 election and Steven Joyce has already left politics. That leaves only two of the previous four contenders for the leadership of the National party.
