I will never forget the Christchurch earthquake in February 2011. None of us will, of course. But one of the things that stands out in my mind was how quickly the USAR crew arrived from Australia. They were here by late afternoon, after the earthquake had struck just before 1.
Jacinda Ardern is certainly racking up the achievements on her trip to Australia. She has triumphed where few brave souls have ever succeeded: uniting Australia’s two major parties… Against her. In these days of hyper-partisanship especially, there are usually not many issues that bring Labor and the Liberals
Matthew Hooton nails it once again. For those still committed to reality-based politics, Ardern’s “year of delivery” is as credible as her earlier promise to be “transformational”. KiwiBuild, the Billion Trees programme and the Provincial Growth Fund handing out only 3 per cent of the money Shane Jones
Peter Williams must be pleased to be free of the TVNZ censor. How it must have rankled with him to have to read all the auto-cue items on the TVNZ ‘news’ bulletins. He has now come out. I am so over the nonsense that is being propagated by politicians
President Trump has dropped another one of his Twitter bombs and our PM has said that she utterly disagrees with him, which is not at all surprising, as she no doubt is worried that his next Twitter bomb will be about her. Trump’s tweet was about four women known
Yesterday I shared with you all an e-mail from Otago University academics, Kevin Clements and Kieran Ford. They wanted to interview our team members and felt that our “participation would make a fantastic contribution to the project.” We disagreed and thanks to our amazing research team, AKA Sally we
How delicious! Mike is going to sue the gummint for climate change. They either agree with him and pay out or they argue that he is wrong on all counts – which he is – and have to admit that the whole thing is a charade. The Treaty of Waitangi promised that
Winston Peters, our Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, travels to Washington again this week to try to secure a trade deal with the US, particularly over steel tariffs. Winston was talking up his chances of pulling off a deal, seeming confident that he will manage it this time.
If you thought compulsory insulation, compulsory kitchen and bathroom fans and compulsory fixed heaters were enough, you are going to be disappointed. More than a year ago, the government announced that rental losses were going to be ringfenced. This has now passed into law… not that you would know about
Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard identifes as a woman but has more in common with a boy racer given the accident he caused that has left a man with spinal injuries. Hubbard, 41, […] was charged with careless driving causing injury […] Her car hit a vehicle carrying an Australian couple in their
We all know that a fair swag of the Pacific Ocean’s floating plastic waste emanates from Asia including China and India. Their waste plastic is growing unchecked at our expense, as the ramifications of their pollution are being used by politicians to inflict ‘Green’ policies that include banning supermarket
We have students wagging school. We have councils and even whole countries declaring climate emergencies when, for the most part, the weather is still behaving pretty much as it normally does. I mean – it is winter, so it is cold, right? Yes, it is. Jacinda claimed that climate change was
Currently, most of our electricity is generated by renewables, around 80%. But when we all get on board the JAG wagon and buy EVs where is the extra electricity going to come from? Dr Woods is now too busy knocking up Kiwibuild houses to get her 4.5 windfarms per
An opinion piece in Stuff fails to grasp what will happen if the government actually succeeds in creating long-term behavioural changes in the car market by penalising normal vehicles and subsidising electric vehicles. […] That encouragement will likely motivate importers and car companies to focus on bringing in more electric
Green list MP Julie Anne Genter waited until Mike Hosking was on holiday to announce the policy on taxing utes and muscle cars to subsidise EVs. She is only delaying the inevitable. Mike will give her a right royal serve in a couple of weeks.
Tommy Robinson has asked for political asylum in the United States as he believes that he will be murdered inside prison. “In desperation, I’m making the appeal to President Trump urging him to get his lawyers and his team to look into my case. I’ve already been unlawfully
