Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last Friday the Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi announced that the next step in the Government’s plan to introduce hate speech laws would be two public consultation processes – the first seeking feedback on their legislative proposals, and the second asking how to build a
While driving today, I heard something on the radio which said we are now celebrating 2 years of being plastic-bag free. We are not plastic-bag free, of course. Anyone can buy them at the supermarkets in packs, or in bulk on the internet. I assume they mean ‘free-plastic-bag free’, as
Today’s face of the day Martyn Bradbury has been speaking a lot of sense lately on the topic of Free Speech and Labour’s proposed Hate Speech law. No one can be watching the Free Speech vs Hate Speech culture war and not be scared shitless by the most
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Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
Travel to Russell on the 7th to see and support Mike King this coming Wednesday. His event at the Russell Boating Club is booked out. His event at the Nauti Penguin is filling well too. At the Nauti Penguin Mike will speak from 3pm. The show is free (with Koha)
David Seymour ACT Leader ACT is calling on all parties in Parliament to renounce the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Helen Clark got it right when her Government refused to sign up. John Key got it wrong when his Government signed the Declaration, he may have
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
We are essentially a lone voice in a sea of left-wing voices. Do you really want us to disappear or would you rather we powered up our voice? Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’
Jacinda Ardern once said that she’d “never told a lie in politics”. That was, of course, a lie. Since then there have been many instances where her lying ways have been caught out. Kiwibuild, all lies. Light rail to the airport within four years, another lie. MIQ was performing
‘Not in a Democracy’: Maori Party Co-leader Rawiri Waititi Outlines His Vision for a ‘Tiriti-Centric Aotearoa’ Where the Majority Doesn’t Rule over Maori Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi thinks Aotearoa could be the “best nation in the world” – but not necessarily as a democracy. His comments come after the
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