NZ’s Populist Moment
It’s going to be a difficult six months for National and Labour as they navigate the populist mood but cling to the status quo.
It’s going to be a difficult six months for National and Labour as they navigate the populist mood but cling to the status quo.
We need to get the Ministry of Culture to fund some kind of dance development project.
They declared sovereignty actually lies with their judge mates.
How ironic for a group of pompous puffed-up lawyers bearing the title ‘King’ to lecture parliament and the people, telling us how they’ve got it all sorted.
If you want to be respected, then it's important to show respect in kind. The actions of the Māori Party in parliament are both an insight and a warning into who they really are.
Doing nothing solves nothing. It is hard to argue with David Seymour’s comment that National are afraid to address the hard issues. National might find out a lot are leaving the party for that reason. They are flying in the face of the majority of their supporters.
‘Workplace surveillance’ is every bit as sinister as it sounds.
Until Labour comes to grips with the new demographic realities that they brought about themselves they don’t deserve to be back in office and probably won’t be.
I’m keen to go hard on this. If National don’t get how important this is to us they will keep trampling over us. Do you think it’s time to stop playing nice? I’m willing to call it what it is: weak leadership, cowardice and really, really dumb.
It is clear that the fight against DEI is by no means over. In many ways, it is only just beginning.
Why doesn’t he like the Treaty Principles Bill? His attitude is appalling and bordering on, well, treasonous.
The right to protest is a virtue of our political system and hīkoi are a peculiarly New Zealand variation. I’d just like to recommend that Māori, rather than wasting such efforts on a dead-on-arrival parliamentary bill, save it for things that really matter…