Karen Chhour ACT Social Development spokesperson Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence Minister Marama Davidson’s performance in Question Time yesterday shows she has no idea what’s happening in her portfolio. The number of family harm incidents have increased from 133,000 in 2018 to 171,000 in 2020.
National leader Judith Collins has defended award-winning journalist Rachel Stewart after the NZ Police removed her firearms, licence and ammunition after receiving a complaint because of an allegedly “threatening tweet”. police said they “consider threatening any form of violence against a person and exhibiting any form of hatred, as well
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust Prisoners at Wellington Women’s Prison are reportedly ‘unhappy’ with the free dinner they get because it is served to them too early. “It seems we have entered the twilight zone when we are seriously entertaining the complaints from prisoners that their free
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust Public money shouldn’t be funding a Mongrel Mob Chapter that has had several of its members arrested as part of an international drug and crime ring. The Human Rights Commissioner needs to personally pay back the $200 that was forked out from
Here’s a story straight from the Bee – not the Babylon Bee, though: the Sacramento Bee. And it’s a story that’s literally nuts. It was only because of an audit earlier this month that the Touchstone Pistachio Company realised what had happened. There were 42,000 missing pounds
If we’re to believe the left, white people invented slavery and were – indeed are! – the only people ever to practise it. Virtuous ‘People of Colour’ would never do anything so wicked. Forget about all those centuries of brutal Arab slavery – especially their predilection for white Europeans. Forget that the
Recently, The BFD reported how US detectives had used a genealogy website to catch a notorious serial-killer rapist who had escaped justice for decades. In the case of the Golden State Killer, detectives created a profile on GEDmatch using DNA samples, held for years, from the criminal. From there, they
When Jacinda Ardern and Kris Faafoi fronted media to explain their new hate speech laws they demonstrated a very sketchy understanding of their own recommendations. They were so bad that the bought and paid for (normally adoring) media were uncharacteristically critical. “Not only is the Prime Minister wrong about the
Labour promised to deliver 10,000 new homes in three years, instead, they have delivered 1058. That means this Government, with 2660 new gang members since 2017, has managed to produce more new gang members than homes, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Gang violence continues to increase under
Labour’s underhand last-minute move to shut down debate on my members Bill (Rights for Victims of Insane Offenders Bill) is a disaster for victims’ rights, Louise Upston MP for Taupo says. “Victims of insane offenders have had their suffering diminished for too long in our criminal justice system when
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has not been shy about his aim to rapidly reduce the prison population by 30 per cent and it is perhaps the only target this Government is actually going to meet. However, Labour’s ‘Hate-Speech’ law changes might put a spanner in the works, National’s
Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson Yesterday I successfully triggered an urgent debate in Parliament about the cyber security breaches at Waikato Hospital. It follows documents from Waikato District Health Board being released onto the dark web after the ransomware attack that crippled five hospitals’ IT systems in May. What’
Sensible Sentencing Trust sst.org.nz The Waikeria Prison riot was in the headlines again last week with cabinet signing off on $1.3 million of compensation to prisoners whose property was damaged in the riot. It was clear that without the Labour government even realising it they demonstrated the
When one of the USA’s worst serial killers and rapists, who terrorised a state for decades, was finally caught, surely no one could object? But they have. Because the killer was caught using publicly available genealogy database technology. Now, not only are private companies refusing to cooperate with police,
David Seymour ACT Leader The Justice Minister has today shown how out of his depth he is on Newshub Nation as he was unable to provide any clarity around his proposed hate speech laws. When interpreting the law, courts often look to speeches from the Minister responsible to see what
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust The announcement that prisoners are now going to ‘receive compensation for a crime that’s been committed’ is a slap in the face for the many thousands of victims of crime who struggle to get a cent of reparation from those very offenders
