After nearly five years of inaction, the Labour Government is now scrambling to deal with an out-of-control law and order problem in New Zealand, National’s Justice spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Today’s announcement of another programme to ‘discourage’ youth offending is more window-dressing from a Government that has no
lens.monash.edu Image-based abuse, also commonly known as “revenge pornography” involves three main behaviours – non-consensually taking or creating nude or sexual images, threatening to share or distribute nude or sexual images and non-consensually sharing or distributing nude or sexual images. As many as one in three people across Australia,
For a long time I’ve avoided and pooh-poohed the melange of conspiracy theories that swirl around the grotesque personage of George Soros, but… damn, he just makes keeps on making it harder and harder to ignore. When it comes to the toad-like nonagenarian billionaire, yesterday’s conspiracy theory too
The latest figures of ram raid crime are astounding and yet not surprising as we read daily reports of those crimes, but a 518% increase compared to the first six months of 2018 is still shocking. In the first six months of this year, there have been 254 ram raids
Rick Sarre University of South Australia Professor Rick Sarre retired in April 2020 from the role of Dean at the University of South Australia’s Law School to become an Adjunct with UniSA Justice & Society. His secondary education was undertaken at King’s College, in Kensington Park, South Australia
Neville Dodd President Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc The revelation in yesterday’s NZ Herald that the IPCA, the police watchdog, and privacy commissioner have decided against an inquiry into the theft of documents carrying the details of thousands of gun owners from a disused police station in
Robert Muldoon used to brag that exporting New Zealanders to Australia raised the IQ of both countries, but lately, Australia’s importing a lot of garbage from New Zealand that’s making us dumber. And I’m not talking about Russell Crowe, phony “asylum seekers”, or sundry criminal bikers. What
familyfirst.org.nz As you will know, earlier this month the government repealed the Three Strikes law. Under the Three Strikes law, any adult convicted of a third serious violent offence would be handed down the maximum sentence available, unless that sentence would be “manifestly unjust”. Offences which were subject
Ardern has managed a new best, an average of 1.4 ram-raids a day. Go Jacinda, I know you can do 2! Some “No Shit Sherlock” statements: Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said the teenagers involved in ram raids and robberies were not “productively engaged”. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has recently
For all that the left are convinced that America is a hotbed of racism and “white supremacy”, they have a hard time actually finding any. Perhaps that’s why they’ve had to descend to literally shaking about “micro-aggressions”. That’s right, the big, bad bogeyman now is supposed “aggressions”
Nothing tells voters that it is time to change the government like out-of-control crime and a Government intent on cuddles for crimes instead of jail. There have been 129 ram raids since May, almost all of them on the watch of new Police Minister, Chris Hipkins. Of 129 ram raids
Tommy Bent must be resting a bit easier in his grave, these days. After all, he’s finally going to shuck the mantle of Victoria’s most corrupt premier. Even Queensland’s Joh Bjelke-Petersen might finally be getting a contender for most corrupt premier in all Australia. From volunteer firefighters,
Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust Something funny is starting to happen with some of the media and their views on youth crime. Now, as everyone reading this knows, I have had a very clear and consistent view on what is going wrong with the Youth Justice system. In fact, if
A chance conversation last week about cross-Tasman migration was with a real estate agent from a small agency on the Sunshine Coast, currently with ten Kiwi families on his books who are leaving the sinking ship of New Zealand for greater opportunity, more money, warmer climate, and less political chicanery.
