Stuart Nash is the Police minister and also the Napier MP. He has overseen an explosion of gang members in his own patch that has meant that the Police have raised the white flag: “They have a new cohort of younger members. I don’t think the older hierarchy are
All things pass, but decades later Jewish survivors still vividly remember the Holocaust. Memories of Nazi Germany’s cruel attempt to annihilate the Jews are still raw and painful, but when these survivors leave this world to join their forebears, digital and written records of this shameful period in history
On a high-school trip to Central Australia in the early 1980s, we paid a visit to a camel farm. The cameleer was very an old-school Territorian bushie, all leathery skin, beard and no-bullshit attitude. When someone asked about Aboriginal culture, his answer shocked all of us. “A
It seems that at least some people at ‘A Newspaper’ are starting to finally grasp a glimmer of understanding of what free speech actually means. In fact, they’ve gone so far as allowing the Free Speech Coalition to tell the remaining readers of ‘A Newspaper’ exactly what we have
The Police in Hawkes Bay must have been taking lessons in marching backwards from the French. Their top cop has raised the white flag and said that policing gangs is beyond their means. Her local MP and Police Minister, Stuart Nash, surely must be holding his embarrassed head in his
Since the police seem to have just about waved the white flag at gangs in this country, preferring instead to raid the homes of law-abiding citizens while they are sitting down to dinner, it seems to me that gangs have recently become much more visible. There was this recent
I listened to an interview on Newstalk ZB with Police Minister Stuart Nash and three questions came immediately to mind. The Newstalk ZB headline for the interview was Police Minister admits NZ has a gang problem. Nash’s admission is not surprising given the number of gang-related shootings that
Details of the heist of guns from the Palmerston North Police station have been revealed in court today and what an eye-opener it has been: When two officers pointed their pistols at a man high on P stealing guns from the Palmerston North police station, the thief took no
Mike Loder Under the nation’s new gun laws Police will be able to decline an applicant from receiving a firearm license based on the political views of the individual. I have asked the Police Minister, Stuart Nash, just what would constitute an opinion ‘extreme’ enough to raise concerns. Both
The War on Drugs is sputtering to the end as governments wake up to the fact that spending billions on something that doesn’t work and creates vast criminal enterprises, simply isn’t worth it. In the US in State after State, laws outlawing cannabis are falling like dominoes. In
Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners (on behalf of the Fair and Reasonable Campaign) I hope you have all had a relaxing summer break. Here at COLFO, we’ve continued working hard over the break to fight the Government’s unfair changes to firearms laws. Apologies that it
Questions have been raised about the legality of how the police obtained the information they used for a search warrant when they raided the family home of BFD author Dieuwe de Boer with approximately twelve armed officers. In the audio below, University of Otago Law Professor Andrew Geddis explains the
Press Release: ACT party “More than a year after new vaping legislation was promised, and with the school year rapidly approaching, there’s still no sign of Labour’s vaping legislation”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour announced plans to regulate vaping way back in November 2018. More than a
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign It appears our worst fears are playing out. Earlier in the week, the Police began executing search warrants to find newly banned firearms and, as you will see, among those they are targeting are lawful, responsible firearms owners. Have a read of this
Every now and again one must come to the realisation that you simply have too much stuff. And so it happened to me last week when it was pointed out by the long-suffering Mrs ExPFC that I only have one towbar on my (totally awesome by the way,) Falcon
