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Mob Gloating Over Pell Verdict Demeans Rule of Law

Mob Gloating Over Pell Verdict Demeans Rule of Law

I’m not a Catholic. I abhor paedophilia. I’m not particularly enamoured of George Pell. Yet, I can’t escape the uneasy feeling that the most egregious miscarriage of justice in Australia since the Chamberlains has been perpetrated in Pell’s case. What’s even more telling is that

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Free Speech is NOT Free

Free Speech is NOT Free

Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition With the Prime Minister confirming that hate speech legislation will be put forward to Parliament before next year’s election, it is easy to feel pessimistic about the fight for free speech rights. But there are glimmers of hope in the political market.

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‘A Small Victory for Common Sense’
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‘A Small Victory for Common Sense’

Press release: ACT Party “The Finance and Expenditure Committee’s interim report on the Arms Legislation Bill is a small victory for common sense”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “While ACT continues to oppose the bill, the fact that the committee is now listening to firearms owners and proposing

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Twyford Undermines Property Rights With Urban Development Bill

Twyford Undermines Property Rights With Urban Development Bill

Press release: ACT Party “Phil Twyford’s plan to allow the government to forcibly take private land for development instead of changing our urban planning rules for all New Zealanders will undermine property rights”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Urban Development Bill allows Kainga Ora to compulsorily acquire

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Tobacco Law vs Cannabis Law: Part Two
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Tobacco Law vs Cannabis Law: Part Two

Tobacco Law vs Cannabis Law: Part One Proposed NZ Cannabis law: * Under the proposed law you’ll be able to buy 14 grams of cannabis a day. * The proposed age for smoking cannabis is 20 years or older. * Smokeless edible cannabis products (such as gummy bears) will be legal. * **Unknown

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How New Zealand Defines & Recognises Veterans

How New Zealand Defines & Recognises Veterans

Press release: NZ First Minister for Veterans Ron Mark has announced today the Coalition Government’s initial response to work completed by the independent statutory body, the Veterans’ Advisory Board. “When Professor Ron Paterson completed his review of the Veterans’ Support Act in 2018, he made a number of recommendations,

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Why We Should Be Worried about Phase Two of the Gun Law Changes

Why We Should Be Worried about Phase Two of the Gun Law Changes

Many law-abiding gun owners were not too worried about phase one of the government’s law changes to ban semi-automatics. Even though they were knee jerk and ill-thought-out, with only token consultation with the licenced gun community, many thought that it was a one-off. The government had virtue signalled to

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NZ’s Changing Attitude Toward Cannabis

NZ’s Changing Attitude Toward Cannabis

New Zealand started off accepting cannabis as a medicine. The below article from the Auckland Star in 1871 reveals that it was used at the time as an alternative to more powerful drugs like opium. ASTHMA. Auckland Star 6 May 1871 An ad in the Lyttelton Times in 1889 reveals

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Tobacco Law vs Cannabis Law: Part One
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Tobacco Law vs Cannabis Law: Part One

I had an interesting conversation the other day with a friend who is a smoker. She said that New Zealand’s tobacco laws are currently more restrictive than the proposed cannabis laws and that the penalties these days for being caught with illegal tobacco are worst than being caught with

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AMMO Amnesty NOT Extended, But Police Pretending It Has Been
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AMMO Amnesty NOT Extended, But Police Pretending It Has Been

Press release: COLFO The Council of Licenced Firearms Owners (COLFO) has had to clarify the law with Police and receive their reassurance that while the amnesty for ammunition was not extended to 20 December, Police will act as if it has been. Since 30 September everyone with now-banned ammunition have

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Until Police Can Stop This Behaviour, LFOs Should Resist a Register

Until Police Can Stop This Behaviour, LFOs Should Resist a Register

The Police have become overbearing and threatening in their dealings with Licenced Firearms Owners. They have been aided and abetted by an out of control Police Minister, Stuart Nash. Currently, they are ramming through legislation for a gun register despite the fact that no gun register anywhere in the world

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A ‘Sensible, Reasonable Person’ Would Be Offended

A ‘Sensible, Reasonable Person’ Would Be Offended

David Seymour has hit back during an interview on NewstalkZB in response to the cartoon of him drawn by Sharon Murdoch referring to her as a “low rent cartoonist.” The fact that the media and those on the left of politics have only chosen to be upset by the cartoon

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The BFD Comment of the Week
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The BFD Comment of the Week

Todays BFD comment of the week was made by Ghost “The firearms buyback has been a huge success at removing evil guns from the streets” “Gun Crime is soaring and a huge risk to public safety” Can any of the detecting geniuses at PHQ and Police Union determine anything out

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