Yesterday Chris Trotter’s Insight: Politics article, ‘Why Aren’t Those People Being Arrested?’ looked at iwi checkpoints, the reaction to them by the public and the context of the actions of the iwi who set them up. THE CLAMOUR for the Government and the Police to “do something” about
Today’s face of the day, former Green MP Catherine Delahunty, is tone-deaf to her own racism. She happily diagnoses it in others but fails to see the log in her own eye. 1. She promotes a petition asking the PM to continue to allow illegal checkpoints run by
Press Release: New Conservatives In 2017, the coalition of Labour, NZF and the Greens took control of New Zealand thus becoming the start of a journey that originally claimed transparency, openness and kindness but has failed to deliver except in the area of removing freedoms and disempowered democracy. New Conservative
Update: I have been told this morning that Police do now have the power to stop people to ensure compliance with lockdown under s71A(2)(c) of the Health Act 1956 However, anyone who isn’t Police has no power to stop a vehicle (except some limited other govt departments
It’s an old saying that “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on”. But when it comes to the mainstream media and President Donald Trump, the lies circle the globe with hypersonic speed while the truth is forbidden a
Ferals in cars were a contentious subject on The BFD’s predecessor, but, rest assured, we have them in Australia, too. In spades. And not all ferals are welfare-hoovers in clapped-out Commodores, either. Some of them are very rich and drive very expensive cars. They’re not any
Years ago, when I was just a wee fella, I lived with my family up in the jewel of the North, Kaikohe. I remember one day running to my poor long suffering Mum whining bitterly about something my evil older brother had done. I don’t recall exactly what it
The Government has been very quick to adopt a snitch culture in the past few weeks. They have a snitch line to Police to dob in lockdown breachers and another for people to snitch on price gougers. Then yesterday, they released the details of every company that has taken the
Aussie import, coward and scumbag, Brenton Tarrant, has plead guilty to 51 charges of murder, 40 charges of attempted murder and one charge engaging in a terrorist act. Stuff reports: The man accused of the Christchurch mosque attacks has entered shock guilty pleas. Amid extraordinary coronavirus lockdown restrictions, Brenton Tarrant,
Amid all the Beer Virus chat it is easy to miss some of the other important stuff that is going on. You may recall last year fires ravaged the Nelson area, putting hundreds of homes and lives at risk, not to mention the destruction of more than a few pine
Now that our lawmakers are wanting to pass a law to allow doctors to kill a baby right up till birth and even after birth (if they survive an abortion) by leaving them to die (by denying them medical assistance) they are having to make changes to prevent them being
Information Satirical content Honky Donky As part of the ongoing efforts by the New Zealand government to reduce gang crime and the workload it puts on the NZ police they have recommended decriminalizing crime. The Coalition government has recommended rushing this through parliament, stating: “It will free up more police
Covid-19 is wreaking fear and havoc around the globe but very little is said about its colourful history, which includes the suspected murder of a Canadian scientist and its alleged theft in Canada by Chinese scientists. The new Coronavirus first appeared in 2012 in Saudi Arabia when an unknown
Operation Paperclip was the American mission to smuggle Nazi war criminals out of Europe after WWII and take 88 brilliant Third Reich scientific minds to America to drive technological advancement in rocketry, space search and biological weaponry. Writer Annie Jacobsen wrote about that mission, and a dozen or so of
Alana Piper University of Technology Sydney In the first decade of the 20th century, Australians were focused on the future. It was the dawn of a new century, and of a newly formed nation. Perhaps this forward outlook was part of why fortune-telling was being heralded as the latest
Jacinda Ardern and Winston Peters can whinge all they like about Australia exercising its sovereign rights and deporting New Zealand-citizen crims, but legal scholar Mirko Bagaric has some very simple advice. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern publicly has scolded Scott Morrison and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton for
