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familyfirst.org.nz As you will know, earlier this month the government repealed the Three Strikes law.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
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
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
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
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
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Seventy five years ago today in the German city of Nuremberg, 16 of 23 Nazi doctors and administrators were found guilty of participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity “in the form of harmful or fatal medical experiments and other
familyfirst.org.nz The latest 1News Kantar poll shows that 70 per cent of New Zealanders believe the government is not doing enough to deal with gangs. Only 14 per cent thought the government was doing enough to deal with gangs. Even amongst Labour Party voters, only 25 per cent
Merry Fitzpatrick Irwin Rosenberg Tufts University Merry’s research interests span two separate but related fields. She has had a long-term interest in livelihoods and food security in conflict and post-conflict settings. The focus of this work is on supporting local strategies that households and communities use to
By now, you’re probably well aware of the horrific attack on author Salman Rushdie. Most of you won’t have to struggle to fathom the motive of Hadi Matar, 24, the would-be murderer. In which case, you’re doing better than the New York Times. Just a heads-
As I wrote recently, the world’s leading democracy is starting to sound like an tinpot dictatorship. Spying on political opponents, ginning up fake dossiers, weaponising the state bureaucracy to pursue vendettas, dubious elections, show trials and secret police raids. Such is the state of what was once the world’
Despite the claims, no one has been able to answer provocative columnist Andrew Bolt’s challenge to name a single Aboriginal child taken from their parents solely for being Aboriginal. The grim truth was that the period of the so-called “Stolen Generations” was a period where paternalistic authorities arrogated
