Now that our lawmakers are wanting to pass a law to allow doctors to kill a baby right up till birth and even after birth (if they survive an abortion) by leaving them to die (by denying them medical assistance) they are having to make changes to prevent them being
Press Release: Downright Discrimination NZ 1300 people with Down syndrome and their families called on PM Jacinda Ardern to not introduce abortion up-to-birth for NZ babies with Down syndrome ahead of the Abortion Legislation Bill vote yesterday 1300 people with Down syndrome have signed an open letter to
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Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign Parliament was back last week, and despite the Government originally having the Arms Legislation Bill at the top of the Parliamentary Order Paper (that is the official agenda of Parliament) it kept being pushed back and delayed. This Stuff headline may sum it
Alana Piper University of Technology Sydney In the first decade of the 20th century, Australians were focused on the future. It was the dawn of a new century, and of a newly formed nation. Perhaps this forward outlook was part of why fortune-telling was being heralded as the latest
Mcblog2 bobmccoskrie.com Summary of specific problems with the Abortion Legislation bill. Policy fail. *To remove legislation about abortion from the criminal code and insert it to the health code is to equate a procedure to remove an unborn baby with a procedure to remove an appendix, kidney stones, gall
The NZ First “handbrake” is working again. I wrote a few weeks ago that Stuart Nash was overly confident about getting his anti-shooter bill passed, and voila!, NZ First is holding it up: The Labour party is struggling to get support to pass a new gun law as NZ
Press Release: Stop the War on Tenancies New Zealand’s 290,000 rental property owners should resist radical changes to the Residential Tenancies Act both by submission and by vote in this year’s election, Tenancies War spokesman Mike Butler said on Sunday. The current government has the despicable habit
Chris Cahill NZ Police Association President Speech Transcript This time next week, all going well, Parliament will have passed the Arms Legislation Bill as the second tranche of firearms reforms designed to make all New Zealanders safer. Together, the reforms will do this by taking the most dangerous of weapons
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign On Tuesday, the Arms Legislation Bill is likely to be back in Parliament for its most critical stage and I’m writing to ask for your help for one last push to get the public to understand why this is so important. With
When Renae Maihi went to court, I couldn’t help but wonder where Don Brash, David Seymour and the free speech brigade were. Given that Brash and his “Free Speech Coalition” quickly rushed to court to defend Lauren Southern and what’s-his-face Molyneux’s right to free speech,
There’s nothing quite like a story of a speeding teenager getting let off by a Dud Judge to get the opinions flowing. This week we hear of Kingston Webb, a resident of Napier (hmm, just what do you call that, a Napierian, a Napierite?). Anyway, young Kingston is a
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign Thank you to all of those who have used our email tool to tell Winston Peters and his colleagues to scrap the second round of firearms law changes, including the dangerous/insecure proposed firearms register. In politics, the squeaky wheel gets the oil,
Maureen Coleman Facebook (edited for clarity by The BFD) Where do I start? The second reading of the Arms Amendment Bill has been before the house, and the 3rd reading is very near. I hope and trust beyond all else that the end of a hugely important way of life
I can appreciate the anger, the frustration, the despair and the high levels of emotion. We’ve seen it happen before. Adults who are responsible for the care of their children, clamming up and en masse refusing to provide information to police that to all intents and purposes, would result
