Press Release: Lindsay Mitchell, Welfare commentator and researcher The number of people on benefits has shot up 5 percent in the last year. According to welfare commentator Lindsay Mitchell latest benefit fact sheets, just released by MSD, show over 15,000 more people receiving a benefit than a year ago.
Press Release: New Conservative Helen Clark has reported that the UN is under threat as the US has cut some funding. We need to ask why it has cut funding, and if that is because the UN has moved on from its initial function, which was to promote world peace.
Press release: Embassy of Israel The Embassy of Israel in New Zealand condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent acts of antisemitism that were carried out in Wellington, where a synagogue and other locations in the city were defaced with swastikas. These vile anti-Semitic acts took place as the
Press Release: ACT Party “Labour appears to have given in to a group of radical activists occupying private land at Ihumatao with a deal for a third party to purchase the land to be announced imminently”, says ACT Leader David Seymour “Ihumatao has turned into a political tragicomedy. Instead of
Press Release: ACT Party “The annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey shows the housing crisis has spread to provincial New Zealand and Labour’s policies have failed to improve affordability”, ACT Leader David Seymour says. “Every housing market in the country now rated ‘severely unaffordable’ meaning that the median house
Press Release: National Party Two violent incidents in two days have provided a graphic illustration of why the Government needs to get tougher on gang activity, National’s Police spokesperson Brett Hudson says. “The latest reports of gunshots being fired during a gang altercation near a Napier shopping centre are
Press Release: New Conservative We are less than 3 weeks into the 2020 new year and exactly a full month after the end of the Government’s amnesty for Prohibited Firearms. Already, New Zealanders are seeing an escalation in illegal firearms violence alongside the persecution of licensed owners. The number
Press Release: New Conservative Training children about a climate emergency under the current format will be a disaster as the government is giving false hope to our children that they can control the climate – when they can’t. Teach pollution reduction, teach care of the environment, teach waste pathways, but
Robin Grieve farmcarbon.co.nz “The resource material in the schools’ climate change resource attributes agriculture with producing 48.1% of our greenhouse gas emissions which is simply not scientifically true.” Robin Grieve, Chairman of Pastural Farming Climate Research said today. ‘Agriculture produces 48.1% of carbon emissions based on
Press Release: Medianet Myeloma New Zealand is today calling on Pharmac to make good on their proposal to widen access to blood cancer treatment lenalidomide (Revlimid) from April this year, allowing eligible patients access the subsidised drug earlier in their course of treatment. As one of several groups that marched
Press Release: ACT party “More than a year after new vaping legislation was promised, and with the school year rapidly approaching, there’s still no sign of Labour’s vaping legislation”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour announced plans to regulate vaping way back in November 2018. More than a
Press Release: New Conservative Last night twelve armed police officers raided the home of a young family with a newborn child. No police record and no criminal convictions. The reason for going to the trouble of getting a search warrant and sending twelve officers? A photo from a year ago
Press Release: Sporting Hunters Outdoor Advocacy The right to own a firearm, subject to safety checks, is part of the New Zealand heritage – no different from gaining the right to drive a motor vehicle – says a sporting hunters advocacy group. West Coaster Laurie Collins, a spokesman for the Sporting Hunters
