Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign This is a short post for those of you who have (or have had) licences expiring during the lockdown period. On Tuesday, the Government introduced the COVID-19 Response (Further Management Measures) Legislation Bill which includes measures to extend the expiry of certain licences.
It’s taken me a few days to write this post as I was so bloody angry before. If I had written anything when this came out it would have simply been Marama’s favourite word, in plural, written 800 times. Quite how we have come to this point is
We cannot retain a Prime Minister who does not act constitutionally if we wish to remain a First World democracy In British Commonwealth countries the rule of law is a long-established principle relating to the way in which the country is governed, dating from Magna Carta in 1215 and the
Section 87 of the Health Act 1956 makes for interesting reading: 87 Compensation for persons injuriously affected (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, in every case where any building, animal, or thing is destroyed by or by order of the medical officer of health, or a health protection
Attorney-General David Parker made a speech Friday last week in response to the leaked e-mail to police and the leaked Crown Law advice to the government that revealed how little legal power the police actually had to enforce the lockdown. In it he revealed that the government have been counting
The Speech is very long so I have put in bold the most interesting and pertinent parts of it for readers. *An article responding to the claims made by David Parker in this speech will be published later today. Parker’s Facebook Speech appears designed to provide flannel in response
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As exposed by The BFD, leaked Crown Law advice to New Zealand Police was that they had no legal basis on which to enforce the Ardern government’s panicked, draconian lockdown edicts. Which leads me, on this side of the Tasman, to wonder whether any Australian government or police force
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After Thursday’s release of previously secret Crown Law advice the government has hit the spin cycle. On top of that they have been trying to bully media organisations to remove the story, and have even set some journalists on the trail of trying to identify the leaker. Barry Soper
saynopetodope.org.nz JOINT GUMMI BEAR When you think about “marijuana”, you probably immediately think about a joint. But legalising marijuana will be far more than that. People will be popping it between classes, sucking on it while driving, drinking it before work, chewing on it while they talk to
Justice Minister Andrew Little declared back in March that a review of New Zealand’s hate speech law was in its final stages. It is only the COVID-19 outbreak which has prevented it from being enacted. In order to usher in any new religious blasphemy legislation the old must first
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On Monday we published emails leaked to us that showed that the Police had sought and obtained a Crown Law legal opinion on precisely what they could and could not do under the Governments pandemic lockdown edicts. The emails showed that Police believed, on the advice from Crown Law that
