I have just finished editing Cameron’s article on how he voted and why he voted the way he did and it inspired me to write my own article explaining why I voted completely differently to him. By now you will have already read Cameron’s article so I will
Kal du Fresne, no friend of National or Judith Collins, writes about one of the worst members of the Media Party and their particular style of gotcha politics on National: First up, a disclaimer. I am not, and never have been, a National Party supporter. While there have been rare
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken We’re right in the middle of being allowed to vote on the greatest issues of our time: smoking joints, state-sanctioned murder, and who gets to manage
Editorial Note: I wonder if this is why Ardern wanted people to vote early, and labour ops were busy on twitter trying to discredit National this week? Did they know this dump of documents was coming? Newly released documents show 500 out of an estimated 7000 border and managed isolation
Yesterday morning I went and voted. There was a steady stream of people through the booth at Whangaparaoa Mall. Here is how I voted and an explanation of why I voted that way. On the Cannabis legalisation and control referendum, I voted in favour. I voted in favour for a
Collins says it’s ‘verging on corruption’ for Govt to announce marae funding boost just days from election National leader Judith Collins says an almost $100 million funding boost for marae upgrades, announced by the Government today, is “bordering on very dodgy behaviour”. Just eight days out from the election,
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Chris Wilson Sanjal Shastri University of Auckland What is the relationship between hate crimes and terrorism? Could we have predicted the terror attacks at Masjid Al Noor and the Linwood Islamic Centre on March 15 last year if we had been able to identify a rising number of verbal and
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I have just read the various election policies of the Maori Party. In all areas, they want a separate system in place for Maori funded by taxpayers of course. Their idea appears to focus on the fact that if they have a system whereby Maori are exempt from the rules
Grant Duncan Massey University New Zealand’s election is coming down to a simple contest between the Labour-Green bloc on the left and the National-ACT bloc on the right. Although the right is behind in the polls, if it were to gain the majority, ACT Party leader David Seymour could
Media lies and internal assassination attempts are par for the course for this woman with the fortitude of a proverbial NZ brick s***house. Surviving Suzie Ferguson’s onslaught, Collins refused to be sunk come hell or high water. Ferguson constantly cut off Collins mid-sentence and changed the subject when
1News Colmar Brunton poll 1News: 1 News Colmar Brunton poll: With time running out, National fails to close gap on Labour 1News: Greens down in latest 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll, NZ First sees small rise 1News: Analysis: As election looms, National needs to ‘give everything they have’ to close
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