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Police Minister Must Intervene to Back Police Dogs

Police Minister Must Intervene to Back Police Dogs

Labour have stated that they will not be supporting my straightforward member’s bill to increase the maximum prison term for killing a police dog from 2 years to 5 years in a move that will baffle most New Zealanders, National MP Matt Doocey says. The Ministry of Justice has

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New Police Pursuit Policy a Get Out of Jail Free Card

New Police Pursuit Policy a Get Out of Jail Free Card

The new pursuit policy for Police is a get out of jail free card for offenders, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Since the new policy came into effect Police have only laid charges in 42 per cent of cases where someone has failed to stop, this is down

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Troughers Gotta Trough

Troughers Gotta Trough

It comes as no surprise that the artist in the middle of the rich-lister’s indecent assault case was burying his snout in the arts trough, even while on serious charges: While on bail and accused of imprisonable crimes, Mika X and organisations linked to him were granted thousands

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Wellbeing

Wellbeing

The Guardian has devoted its little corner reserved for New Zealand this week to a review of the government’s ‘Wellbeing Budget’ and how it has transformed the lives of so many New Zealanders. Or not. You can read the article here, but it got me thinking. What happened to

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The Infantilising Myth of Black Deaths in Custody

The Infantilising Myth of Black Deaths in Custody

As I’ve written many times, Black Lives Matter is nothing more than a barking-mad conspiracy theory. Leaving aside its unabashed racism and lunatic Marxist ideology, practically none of its claims of “systemic racism” stand up to serious scrutiny. The Australian left, sheep-like as ever, have naturally flocked

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Systemic Racism Rooted in Maori Victimisation Report

Systemic Racism Rooted in Maori Victimisation Report

Green Party Green Party spokesperson for Maori Development Dr Elizabeth Kerekere Green Party spokesperson for Justice Golriz Ghahraman The Ministry of Justice Maori victimisation report, released yesterday, reinforces what we already know about the impact of systemic racism in Aotearoa and that urgent action is needed.  “Whether it is climate

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The Faces of Anti-Asian Hate

The Faces of Anti-Asian Hate

Remember #StopAsianHate? The hashtag trended on Twitter for days, in concert with a frenzied campaign by the mainstream media. It all reached a crescendo when a satisfactorily white shooter killed eight people, six of whom were Asian, at “massage parlors” in Atlanta. Never mind that the shooter’s stated motive

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Belgian Euthanasia Is Broken, Says Academic Study

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Every once in a while, a bioethics article appears which is so powerful an indictment of injustice that it sends shivers up the spines of its readers. In 1949 Leo Alexander published “Medical Science under Dictatorship” in the New England Journal of Medicine, about the atrocities

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Lock Him Up: Convicted Nonce Ron Brierley Still Strolling the Streets

Lock Him Up: Convicted Nonce Ron Brierley Still Strolling the Streets

There are calls for Sir Ron Brierley to be stripped of his knighthood after he pleaded guilty to possession of child sexual abuse material at a Sydney court hearing. When he was arrested it was reported that detectives seized his carry-on bags, laptop and electronic-storage units and allegedly

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Another Broken Promise

Another Broken Promise

What happened to Stuart Nash’s 2018 promise to prioritise disrupting gangs and organised crime? Instead, under his watch, the opposite has happened. Either the government failed to prioritise gangs or their strategy was another dismal failure. A recent surge in gang membership means New Zealand is not as safe

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In Canberra, No One Can Hear Aboriginal Women Scream

In Canberra, No One Can Hear Aboriginal Women Scream

While the Canberra bubble has spent the last few weeks whipping itself into a self-righteous feminist fury about a bunch of gay men jacking off at work and a dodgy, decades-old rape allegation, a group of Aboriginal women travelled to Parliament to campaign for justice for a raped

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