Hobson’s Pledge Trust hobsonspledge.nz There are two pieces of legislation wending their way through Parliament designed to further entrench the crazy notion that the Treaty of Waitangi created an obligation on governments nearly 200 years later to treat anybody with a Maori ancestor in some kind of preferential
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign With only five days left, the firearms buyback is turning into a total omnishambles. Firearms buy-back collects only 28% of banned firearms Yesterday we exposed that despite all of the media attention and advertising campaign by the Police, the firearms buyback has failed.
Press release: NZ First Darroch Ball’s Protection for First Responders and Prison Officers Bill, which toughens penalties for assaults on first responders and corrections officers, passed its first reading in Parliament this week. Every year, thousands of police, ambulance and corrections officers are assaulted. And it’s increasing. In
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
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.
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
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
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
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,
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
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
McBlog2 Radix Read all the concerns from the police – and then ask yourself, whose opinion do you trust more? The Police who deal with this every day, OR Chloe, Andrew, Helen and the Drug Foundation? Police concerns: * One of the proposed benefits is to free up police resources but that
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
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
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
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
