Today’s crybabies of the week CHOSE to go on strike for one day and to lose one day’s pay. Choices have consequences. Teachers say they have been seeking help from foodbanks and hardship grants after the May 29 mega-strike cost them a day’s pay. […] As a part-time
As you all know I am now the editor of Whaleoil as Cam is working full time on his rehabilitation since the stroke that hit him like a truck more than 8 months ago. It occurred to me today that many readers will be unaware of who inspired Cam to
Housing Minister Phil Twyford’s alleged actions are a reminder of the Clare Curran debacle. When she was the Minister for Broadcasting Clare Curran failed to be both open and transparent. Her meeting with Broadcaster Carol Hirschfeld led to her resignation as she had failed to officially record the meeting.
Our child abuse statistics in New Zealand are shocking, and we all have imprinted into our brains the baby photos of so many innocent children who have been violently abused and killed by those supposed to love and cherish them. When the state steps in and removed a baby from
Winston Peters has always loathed the Green party and, when they recently tried to claim a win for the Green party on the back of the government’s decision to pull Kiwi troops out of Iraq, he was not slow to pour them back into their recycled plastic bottle. After
Last month, the office of the Privacy Commissioner produced a new set of guidelines which would make the task of screening the suitability of tenants that much harder for landlords and property managers. […] Its guidelines grouped requests for information from landlords determining tenant suitability into three categories: “always justified”, “sometimes
Media are divided on whether or not Simon Bridges will remain as the leader of the National party. Tova O’Brien from Newshub says that the rot has set in for Simon Bridges and that Judith Collins is tempering talk of a National leadership coup. On One News Jessica Mutch
Jacinda Ardern has said that the government does not have a position on whether or not to legalise cannabis and that it is up to the public to decide in next year’s referendum. Two of the latest two new polls have revealed that more people would prefer the status
Kiwis might be well known for their laid back attitude, but we are also proponents of giving everyone a ‘fair go’. A government retrospectively making a legal possession illegal and then demanding that it is handed back without compensation has made the majority of previously law-abiding Kiwi gun owners dig
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem but when a person is caught in a downward spiral they cannot see that. They just want the torment to stop. Media in New Zealand like media in America and Australia have been very quick to throw the white supremacist, racist,
Last week, YouTube announced a new “hate speech” policy that will eliminate thousands of videos. Many conservative accounts are being purged as the censorship of conservative voices increases at an alarming rate. YouTube has said that it will ban channels from advertising that “repeatedly brush up against” its hate speech
Yesterday we saw two polls and two different results. If you average across both the National party are on 40.5 Either way, they still can’t win if just the 1News poll is taken into account unless they cut a deal with….wait for it….NZ First AKA Winston
Jacinda Ardern’s Wellbeing budget has made international headlines for all the wrong reasons. One headline reads… ‘Roaming cats, faeces and cockroaches’: Squalid caravan park deemed unsafe for children is charging $500 per week for filthy living conditions in tiny cabins A caravan park which was deemed unsafe for children
Immigration New Zealand has approved more than 20 partnership visas for child brides and grooms married or engaged to people living in or migrating to New Zealand during the past decade. New Zealand is failing to protect child brides and organisations like Shakti are left to pick up the pieces.
Two articles are in the news this week about two cases of starvation. One involved an animal, (a dog) in New Zealand and the other involved a young woman in the Netherlands. One of them was saved from starvation but the other was allowed to starve to death with no
