Sir Elton John was asked if he could be any woman alive today, who would he be? “John answered: “It’s hard to pick someone from today, because there are so many candidates, but I think I’d choose Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand. She’s one
Female MPs from different parties have joined together to tighten-up New Zealand’s laws on female genital mutilation. The group of women who have put together a joint members bill are National MP Jo Hayes, NZ First MP Jenny Marcroft, Labour MP Priyanca Radhakrishnan and Golriz Ghahraman from the
Climate Doomer Emeritus James Renwick has been found out. Rattled by one of his brighter students who chose not to buy the professor’s plant-food propaganda. Renwick worked himself into a tizzy and raced into print to rebut the perfectly valid points raised in new Wellington City Councillor Sean
A BFD reader wrote to their local MP to tell them that National had lost their party vote in 2020 due to their support of the Zero Carbon Bill. To his credit, the MP sent a personal reply. Thanks for your email correspondence regarding the Zero Carbon Bill. I do
I have consistently refused to get involved in the criticism of Simon Bridges, mainly because a lot of it was just nasty and spiteful. Mocking someone for nothing more than his accent is childish and unnecessary, and I refuse to go there. Simon Bridges should be a role model for
Fury as Corbyn says ISIS leader al-Baghdadi should have been ARRESTED He questioned the US operation that wiped out the Islamist mass-murderer, saying: ‘If we want to live in a world of peace and justice we should practice it as well’. dailymail What an idiot Corbyn is. I
In a detailed and fully-referenced paper, Wellington researcher/analyst Barbara McKenzie has published a withering rebuttal of PM Jacinda Ardern’s comments in a speech lauding the passage in the NZ Parliament of the Zero Carbon Bill. […]The Zero Carbon Bill has just passed its third reading in parliament,
The legacy of euthanasia campaigner Lecretia Seales reverberated through Parliament on November 13, 2019 as MPs passed a historic bill legalising assisted dying, turning the final decision over to the public via a referendum. MPs voted through David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill 69 votes to 51, ending
Questions to Ministers Hon PAULA BENNETT to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s policies and statements? MARJA LUBECK to the Minister of Education: What legislative change will be undertaken as part of the reform of the Tomorrow’s Schools system? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the
The poll results below are from a live poll so the results that I have commented on in this post may have changed slightly by the time that this post publishes. At the time of writing 612 people out of the 786 people who had participated in the poll said
Here we go again, BFD readers: another instalment in “The Guardian: I read it so you don’t have to”, an intermittent series by your long-suffering correspondent. In this episode, I suffer through two Guardianista opinion pieces on New Zealand politics: one a stew of utter bollocks from a
Information Satire. The Vatican Council and Pope Brian Paul have written to the Maori Council of New Zealand demanding that they issue an apology to Catholics for the deaths and consumption of Catholic Priests and other Christian missionaries to New Zealand. Pope Brian has made a call for the descendants
The first legal claim against Police Minister Stuart Nash has now been filed and served by The Council of Licensed Firearms Owners ( COLFO) They have asked the High Court to review Nash’s regulations banning certain ammunition and providing no compensation for surrendered ammunition. Below is the COLFO’s statement
