Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign The select committee’s report on the Arm’s Bill could be out as soon as today, and in the last few days, there have been some developments that offer (dare I say it) a glimmer of hope that the politicians are starting
When Australian Aboriginal woman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, and other Aboriginal women, argue that “traditional law” cannot be allowed to excuse and perpetuate the abuses of powerful men, the counter-attacks and excuse-making are not long coming. “Poverty” is a favourite excuse, despite the fact that abuse grossly disproportionately affects
Of all the things I never wanted to know about, Harvey Weinstein’s magina would certainly have been high on the list. Unfortunately, just as with “Two Girls, One Cup” and “Blue Waffle”, my child-like innocence could not long survive in the blast-furnace of unwanted information that is
Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com The Government goes to Waitangi this week expecting to be challenged on water, on Ihumatao, and on Whanau Ora. That is to say, they expect tribal leaders to challenge them on the issues of tribal control of water, the tribal control of land, and the
Police in our country are always on a hiding to nothing when it comes to equipping themselves with suitable equipment. ‘Cheapest is best’ has always been the mantra of the bean counters. Sure they employ a few people to evaluate what will work best for them but at the end
The National Party, Simon Bridges, and their troll army are all thinking that their donations scandal has now been safely swept under the carpet. The troll army is the most hilarious as they react with glee over four people being charged. Already there is a conspiracy theory running around on
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com The Journal of Medical Ethics has published a paper calling for fetal pain to “be considered as part of a humane approach to abortion”. Whenever a paper or professional reaches a conclusion which is inconvenient to the profitable abortion industry or contradicts pro-abortion-choice propaganda,
Trevor Mallard shouldn’t be surprised to once again find himself in court facing a defamation action. He gobbed off thinking he was immune from smearing an employee in parliament. What’s worse is that he’s done it without a shred of evidence. Now it’s landed him in
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
