National Party The National Party is pleased to announce our members have elected Jannita Pilisi, David Ryan, Stefan Sunde and Sylvia Wood to the Board of the National Party, joining Peter Goodfellow, Rachel Bird, Matt Doocey and Hon Judith Collins in the Party’s leadership. The new National Party Board
Ashley Bloomfield has been caught telling fibs to the Health Select Committee. Like all good little civil servants he has ‘fessed up, yet again, to misleading Members of Parliament: Director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has apologised to Parliament’s health select committee for providing them incorrect information. On
TV3’s pregnant Samantha Hayes was admitted to hospital last month for a “scary few days spent in hospital fighting a mystery infection, facing worries her baby might be arriving two months early”. Hayes and her unborn baby recovered from a fever thought to be caused by an unknown virus,
It is an inconvenient fact that not only has the gun buyback from licenced law-abiding gun owners not made New Zealand safer, but the number of shootings in New Zealand since then has increased from maybe once a year (if that) to monthly if not weekly shootings being reported in
Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’s jobs by complaining to their employers. Last month a Youtuber in New Zealand lost his job after a concerted effort by activists including Maori Party co-leader Debbie
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Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com I received an email the other day from a friend, a retired journalist and self-described bleeding-heart lefty (most journalists lean to the left, though the good ones don’t let it influence their work), who complained that political correctness was sucking all the fun
The landscape for conservative media is getting darker and darker. The BFD is faced with competitors that are hock deep in Government funded troughs and social media giants that stifle freedom of expression. This month The BFD copped a 30-day ban on Facebook for posting an article from the Sensible
Jacinda Ardern has made much of the support of local police in the Hawkes Bay for her personal approval of $2.75 million to a Mongrel Mob affiliated organisation run by 47 year Mob veteran Harry Tam. She repeats the line often, especially in Parliament, that local police were in
I’ve come across a few ‘tax experts’ in my time. I’m sure there are a few good ones, but for most of them their expertise is concentrated in a very specific area, and their general tax knowledge is fairly average. But tax experts, particularly those who are partners
