The spokesperson said police relied on commercial helicopters in situations where aerial support was needed and police aircraft were unavailable or unsuitable and said each deployment was assessed on operational need.
If the billions that Australia devoted to bans and buybacks had instead been used to understand and treat mental health, including phobias, perhaps we would have something other countries would be interested in.
Sewage, after all, is brutally egalitarian: it does not care about your values, your slogans, or your intentions. It simply goes where neglect sends it – and Wellington is swimming in it, some say, deservedly.
The coalition, in spite of claiming they are committed to equal rights and opposed to race-based law, is not doing nearly enough to protect New Zealand from the threat of tribal rule.
We did not find America: we willed it into being and the fates lacked the nerve to say no.
The underground pipeline into America is a vicious machine leaving stacks of bodies in its wake.
We need to reclaim our freedoms: free to speak, free to believe, and free to work.
We are rubber stamping low-quality drug trials held overseas without adequate testing for serious side effects and long term outcomes.
Politicians mirror our preferences. Even non-participation, such as apathy or failing to vote, allows extreme adherents to dictate outcomes. This is the hard truth of representative government: change is slow because the system reflects us, as a people.
As election year is upon us, we must all demand real reform of both the RMA and Local Government.
In election year it is time to wake up lazy political aspirants. Quiz them. Do they know what they are signing up to if they talk about “Te Tiriti”?
The thought of all the other motorists on the street competing to get to that lamppost first every night and the aggro which will undoubtedly follow is frightening.
