The appeal by Cardinal George Pell against his child sex abuse conviction was yesterday rejected by Victoria’s Court of Appeal, a decision that has been met with surprise from legal experts and joy from advocates. The legal team for the Vatican’s most senior cleric convicted to date has
ACT Party: Last week, the prime minister was on the international stage and in the glare of global media where she normally excels. But she seriously stumbled by lecturing our friend and closest ally, Australia, about their climate change record. (This follows her earlier criticism of Australia’s immigration laws.
In October last year, Spanish Bride wrote an article regarding Housing New Zealand’s refusal to do anything about one of their properties that was being used as a drug house in Christchurch. Well, it seems that their head-in-the-sand attitudes continue to reign supreme, and it appears that the NZ
Until recently, the Crown owned New Zealand’s coastline on behalf of all New Zealanders. In 2011 parliament passed the Marine and Coastal Area Act which confiscated public ownership of the foreshore and seabed and then allowed Maori to claim title and ownership rights. As a result, Maori lodged nearly
Free Speech Coalition Press release: Responding to the planned ban on protest within 150m of abortion clinics, Free Speech Coalition spokesperson Rachel Poulain says: “Restrictions on protest near abortion clinics would set a worrying precedent. If we accept a 150-metre restricted-speech zone, there is no clear principle to stop groups
It looks like the Green Party is starting to haemorrhage support for one of their most important policies, the right to blaze up willy nilly. According to the latest in a series of three surveys commissioned by New Zealand’s largest licensed medicinal cannabis company Helius Therapeutics, Green Party voters
ACT party Press release: The government needs to come clean about what types of firearms are being handed in as part of its buy-back scheme because the numbers suggest the taxpayer is buying a large collection of pop guns. The headline figures of the number of firearms collected has been
The NZ Police have confirmed that Firearms owners have handed in 12,183 firearms at over 100 events held nationwide 5 weeks into the buy-back scheme. 7573 firearms owners have been processed, and they have handed in a total of 10,844 prohibited firearms as well as 46,129 parts
National party press release: Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has created a culture of leniency in our prison system which puts prisoners ahead of victims and public safety. New Zealanders confidence in Corrections will rightly be eroding after revelations that dangerous prisoners with extreme views have been able to send inflammatory
Peacefully-minded New Zealanders who have learned from history are already resisting the PM’s gun mandates
It is good to see that the NZ Police are finally giving the gangs the same treatment that they dish out to innocent 12-year-old girls looking after their horses. But what’s with the weird headline on this Stuff article? Surely when an armed police raid on a gang pad
Sensible Sentencing Trust We cannot forget that 71% of prisoners are incarcerated for homicide or other violent crime The Waitangi Tribunal report released on Monday, found that the 2010 law change was inconsistent with Treaty principles and led to significant prejudice against Maori. The Tribunal said the Crown advice to
When your political opponents have to resort to calling your policy “fascism” you know that they don’t have a strong counter-argument. Who was the idiot that thought it would be a good idea to give criminals the right to vote anyway? If they are incarcerated then clearly society has
There was a time when only landowners could vote. I’m not saying that is the way it should be now, but I do think that voting eligibility should depend on a number of things – maturity, skin in the game and a bit of life experience all count as important
