Family First The Supreme Court in Wellington has just handed down their judgement in Attorney-General v Family First New Zealand, and the Government and the Charities Board have won the right to deregister Family First as a registered charity. “This decision is a sad day for the freedom of
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments Have you been wondering why there is so little debate about co-governance in the daily papers, on
Never let it be said that the left can’t deal with the important stuff. After all, America may be collapsing into impoverished violence, with soaring inflation, spiralling gas and food prices and armed thugs attempting to assassinate Supreme Court justices, but Joe Biden did pass an anti-lynching law.
After Christopher Luxon stifled Simon O’Connor’s personal view, I searched for National’s stance on freedom of speech. All I can find is Simon Bridges (as Opposition Spokesperson for Justice) in June 2021: The National Party encourages open debate and discussion as this leads to people being better
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When mainstream media journalists all start singing from the same hymn sheet, using literally the same scripts, your bullshit detectors should flip right into the red. Ditto, politicians. So, when both journalists and politicians (not to mention their bureaucratic lackeys) around the Western world are all suddenly parroting the same
Catherine Salgado newsbusters.org Catherine Salgado is a Staff Writer with Media Research Center’s NewsBusters’ Free Speech America. She also has a column, Washington’s Bayonette, on The Rogue Review and her own SubStack newsletter, Pro Deo et Libertate. The Center for Countering Digital Hate, which previously classified Media
The great John Lydon has said, in defense of the Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen, “When someone tells you, ‘Oh, you can’t say that,’ that’s when you should say it”. Lydon’s “Rotten” persona was a self-consciously “snotty little bastard” playing the court jester’s role
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. Warning Long read. 1378 words. So, the government of New Normal Germany is contemplating forcing everyone to wear medical-looking masks in public from October to Easter on a permanent basis. Seriously, the fanatical
Helen Houghton Co-leader New Conservative There is not often a month that goes by when we don’t see hyperbolic media headlines about LGBT victims. The most recent one managed to blend the burning of a building with homophobic graffiti and a school’s condemnation of homosexual relationships. The
Bruce Logan familyfirst.org.nz The Ministry of Education wants Tauranga’s Bethlehem Christian College to erase from its statement of belief that marriage is between a man and a woman. Of course, it does. The Ministry has its own competing statement of belief; the gospel of diversity, inclusion and
familyfirst.org.nz Warning Long read. 1743 words. Fuelled by a media feeding-frenzy, The Ministry of Education is threatening to ‘intervene’ into the beliefs of a much-respected Christian school, demanding Bethlehem College remove reference to traditional biblical marriage from their Statement Of Belief. This overarching Statement Of Belief
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Although free speech has a central role in the scientific process, many experts have been purposefully muted during the Covid-19 pandemic. This week NZDSOS published a position statement in which we call on the New Zealand government to engage in
Helen Houghton Co-leader New Conservative “Activists are targeting our children with harmful ideologies. Not only through indoctrinating kids with anti-biology teaching on gender, but they are now attacking religious schools like Bethlehem College for their beliefs. This has to stop,“ says Helen Houghton, a former teacher and New
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame. Rules for Radicals https://www.citizenshandbook.org/rules.html If you aren’t angry with the way the
