Last night the news broke that National’s donation scandal is a whole lot worse than National was letting on. Not only do the charges relate to the original $100,000 donation highlighted by whistle-blower Jami-Lee Ross, but it appears there was another $100,000 donation as well:
Today’s face of the day is an experienced “dirty politics operator” who would have you all believe that she is as pure as the driven snow despite her history. She has many media contacts that she uses to get stories out into the public eye to the benefit of
So it appears Phil Goff has had enough of Mike Hosking’s home truths re how the city is run and suggested he follows his own suggestion in a previous article and leave Auckland. Just to clarify, that was Mike’s suggestion, unfortunately, not Phil’s. So desperate is Phil
I have divided the Prime Minister’s speech to Maori at Waitangi this year into statements and promises. She only promised two things. Promises: 1.[…] Doing things differently includes how we acknowledge our history. […] To see a commitment that we will finally have the teaching of New Zealand histories in
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On Saturday I posted Will Ardern be PM for three more years? Today, I report that contrary to my previously expressed opinions, Eleanor Ainge Roy on Saturday wrote in The Guardian: “With seven months to go, the internationally acclaimed PM must tackle queries over whether she has done enough at
According to Andrea Vance snooping on journalists is an attempt to silence them. Where was she when Rawshark hacked a journalist? That’s right, she was donkey deep in Hager’s mire, working very hard indeed to ensure a conservative voice was silenced. Her hypocrisy stinks worse than a sweaty
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign Since our last post, our lawyers have now been through the detail of the proposed changes. You can read their report here: Arms Legislation Bill – Analysis of the Select Committee Report There are many areas where the Select Committee’s report suggest they
Radix Jacqui’s Story – ‘I was conceived in rape. I value life.’ Jacqui has a powerful story to tell – a story which politicians should hear BEFORE they pass a radical and extreme abortion law in New Zealand. But the politicians on the Select Committee denied her the opportunity to make
The Abortion Legislation Committee has delivered its much anticipated report on the Abortion Legislation Bill. […] The Select Committee received more than 25,000 submissions on the often divisive bill, which will remove the medical procedure from the Crimes Act. In the report, the committee explicitly wanted to note that the
This is the same Paula Bennett who stayed in the office while she fed her staff and MPs to Melanie Reid in order to do a political hit job on Jami-Lee Ross. This is the same Paula Bennett who is a member of a political party that regularly sent
Don’t we just love to speculate about politics. To analyse the polls and guess at what we think might happen. The scenarios can be many and varied and of course some of our views are deeply influenced by our own wishful thinking. For example, there’s nothing I’d
Someone once said that the biggest gang in New Zealand is the New Zealand Police. While I have respect for the police and they are obviously not criminals, I do get the point that they are a powerful group. Since Stuart Nash under Jacinda Ardern, started listening exclusively to the
