It was most disconcerting to see grown men on the west coast crying because Eugenie Sage and her minions have threatened to shut down recreational white baiting – a family tradition. With support of the Greens, Forest & Bird (F&B) are throwing their weight around far more than they
Today’s face of the day is upset by proposals to change the management of whitebait. The Indigenous Freshwater Fish Amendment Bill is currently going through Parliament, which some worry could eventually spell the end of whitebaiting in New Zealand. The bill aims to give better protection to native species,
The Skepchick blog is mostly a sadly typical example of bien pensant left-“liberal” orthodoxy trying to pass itself off as “skepticism”. In a rare fit of common-sense, though, the blog acutely observed that “Food is for white liberals what sex is to the religious right”. Ignoring that the
Primary producers are well-acquainted with the yawning gap between the catastrophist fantasies of insular, thoroughly urbanised watermelons and the reality of actually living and working with the natural world. Farmers, perhaps more than anyone, are aware that they stand to be forced to endure the cost and disruption of
Why are Australian taxpayers subsidising vegan extremists who have been terrorising Australian farmers and are disrupting Australian cities? It’s bad enough that so many Australians have to endure being threatened and bullied by these malnourished nutters, but rewarding them with our tax money just adds insult to injury. Activists
It behoves me to confirm what many suspected already: Wellington’s ‘leadership’ gaggle of Trotskyites, Bolsheviks, and silly children are all officially brain-dead. This confirmation came in today’s news when announcing that previous, and suitably ridiculous, ‘optimistic’ estimates of probable sea-level rise of 60cm per century (triple
Fancy treating a precious child the same way the environ-Mentals are currently treating the useful plastic bag. Of all the things he could do to clean up the environment, he chose to have a smaller family. This doesn’t pass the sniff test. What do you think readers?
By Carlton McCoy The Green Party leadership appear again on Q+A after almost eleven months of “massive progress”.
For far too long many councils have been kicking the can down the road with respect to their three waters infrastructure: Drinking water, wastewater and stormwater. After the disaster at Havelock North, something had to change. The results of the enquiries and consultation are in, with the government announcing a
Today’s crybaby, after jetting off for an overseas holiday using up who knows how many carbon credits along the way, had the jaw-dropping audacity to complain about plastic bags at Auckland Airport’s duty-free on his return to New Zealand. The use of plastic bags at Auckland
We all know that a fair swag of the Pacific Ocean’s floating plastic waste emanates from Asia including China and India. Their waste plastic is growing unchecked at our expense, as the ramifications of their pollution are being used by politicians to inflict ‘Green’ policies that include banning supermarket
By Owen Jennings You either believe in democracy or you don’t. If you do you will accept that lobbying is an essential ingredient in the mix of factors that ensure a robust democracy. It may be that on some issues lobbying is akin to the proverbial “pushing water uphill
There is a bloody good reason why we have plastic straws rather than paper straws, but the current ban on plastic straws (AKA turtle snorkels) has led to a situation where an aberration of common sense such as a metal straw has come into existence. When crimes against common sense
