The Serious Fraud Office has charged six people over donations to the Labour Party: The Serious Fraud Office has filed charges after an investigation into donations made to the Labour Party in 2017. The criminal charges are against six people in relation to a donation made to the Labour Party
Jacinda Ardern told us all that the reason she got into politics in the first place was because she wanted to do something about child poverty. Since then she’s been found wanting, and yet another report tells the tale of her failure. It is her failure because she is
A Ruapehu district councillor refused to stay in the room for a 12-second karakia to open a council meeting. […] Doyle said he was uncomfortable with opening a public meeting with any formal system of belief, whether it was “a karakia, a Hail Mary or an Our Father”. […] he asked the
Sign up today to The BFD Affiliate Programme and start to build a recurring revenue stream of your own by promoting New Zealand’s only conservative media outlet. How It Works Conservative media and advocacy groups have a similar problem, a lack of ongoing recurring revenue. While the left-wing has
Teanau Tuiono Green Party Green Party MP Teanau Tuiono walked out of the House yesterday in support of Te Pati Maori, who call for debate in the House about kaupapa Maori to include Maori voices. “We continuously see and hear the National Party deliberately inciting racist debates in the House.
Let us just imagine for one moment, if the Vikings, who left Scandinavia during the Dark Ages and travelled to a number of countries, pillaging and conquering wherever they went, had never integrated into the societies that they conquered. Where would we be, 1,400 years on, if they had
Graham Adams Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom The controversial report He Puapua has been seized upon by
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Parliamentary debates on race Jane Patterson (RNZ): Policies can be called racist but not MPs, Speaker rules Richard Harman: Behind Parliament’s “racist” row (paywalled) Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi ejected from Parliament Anna Whyte (1News): Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi performs haka in Parliament, ordered to
The co-leaders of the Maori Party and Greens co-leader Marama Davidson have shown us all that the real racists we see are actually members of parliament: Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi was kicked out of the House after protesting the National Party’s rhetoric on race issues with a haka.
Collins is still calling for Speaker Trevor Mallard’s head […] […] Collins was scathing of Mallard, and of Ardern for her continued support of him as Speaker. “The debate on the evening of 4 May was unedifying because of the behaviour and statements of Mr Mallard and his reaction to being
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