Catherine Abou-Nemeh Victoria University of Wellington Earlier this week New Zealand’s parliamentarians voted on the third reading of the End of Life Choice Bill. Much public discussion on the merits of euthanasia has centred around the role of the medical practitioner as healer. Some doctors and conscientious objectors
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government must delay the progress of the Arms Legislation Bill to account for a four-month extension to the Royal Commission into the Christchurch terror attacks”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Royal Commission will now report back to the Government in April 2020, while
Press Release: NZ Government Hon Stuart Nash Minister of Police Controls on assault rifles and semi-automatic firearms are to be broadened to include some types of pistols, under changes to a bill currently making its way through Parliament. Police Minister Stuart Nash has tabled a Supplementary Order Paper to
The legacy of euthanasia campaigner Lecretia Seales reverberated through Parliament on November 13, 2019 as MPs passed a historic bill legalising assisted dying, turning the final decision over to the public via a referendum. MPs voted through David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill 69 votes to 51, ending
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The current changes to the gun laws are bad enough but now Stuart Nash has moved to give the Police even MORE Power with even tougher gun laws. He’s gone mad with power and has become a menace. The changes are being sold to the public as being about
About a year ago, I was driving my ute toward home along the long 100km/h rural road that I live on when I came upon a strangely parked school bus on my side of the road. Now I am pretty careful with school buses as I have attended more
Take a guess at what the new penalty for carrying a round of ammo in your pocket is? Yes, that’s right. It’s five years. And I thought being thrown in lock up overnight for carrying a spliff was draconian. Meanwhile of course the Government and the Left continue
When Kiwibuild failed Jacinda Ardern’s government moved the goal posts and called it a Kiwibuild reset. The housing promise was to build 100,000 affordable homes over 10 years, half of them in Auckland. The KiwiwBuild reset has a build target of zero. Another example of moving the goal
When President Trump called the impeachment proceedings against him a “lynching”, Democrats predictably clutched their pearls. Their faux-outrage was, of course, almost immediately undermined by footage of leading Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden saying exactly the same thing when Democrat President Clinton was impeached. In fact, at least five
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Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign It’s been another busy week on the campaign fighting for fair and reasonable firearms law reform, as we defend the rights of responsible firearms owners like you from overly restrictive and counterproductive changes to firearms laws. 2019 Police trust and confidence survey
Andrew Dickens has seen through the bugger’s muddle gun law changes of Stuart Nash: We seem to have got into a bit of a muddle over guns and it seems to be getting worse. After the March terror attacks using the infamous AR 15, a semi-automatic military style
Press Release: ACT Party There has never been such comprehensive parliamentary scrutiny of a bill as the End of Life Choice Bill. 39,000 public submissions, 16 months in select committee, four months in Committee of the Whole House, nearly two years from First Reading to Third Reading. The Third
Warwick Thorpe’s submission on the Arms Legislation Bill makes for sobering reading. What is really pertinent about this submission is that it is made by someone who has a close association with the upper echelons of the Police. It is well worth reading the whole submission: Submission on the
