This is the same logic that justified Covid vaccine mandates – the state knows best, individual rights don’t matter, and anyone who questions medical authoritarianism represents only “private interests”.
To the rest of New Zealand, what goes on in the capital matters. That’s where our laws are made. We have a right to expect that officials provide quality input to them.
This globally important case involves much more than 'just' Gates. The facts, the background, the drama, the media, the fact checkers, and the lawyer who is currently imprisoned.
A review of the protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary and people with innate variations of sex characteristics.
Chambers can play the disappointed boss all he wants but the buck stops with him. He’s presiding over a force that’s more skilled at dodging accountability than upholding the law.
Let’s call this what it is: a PR stunt. The government is desperate to look like it’s doing something about corruption, so they’ve thrown together a hodgepodge of agencies, given it a fancy name and promised a report by Christmas.
New Zealand should be wary of the coming violation of personal privacy and online liberty in Australia, as a private member’s bill from National MP Catherine Wedd awaits being drawn from the ballot.
ACT MP calls out University of Auckland’s Māori-only job programme.
After being told for months that justice was coming, we get nothing.
The gay couple who abuse together get slapped on the wrist together.
To the unions, academics and activists losing their minds over this bill: take a deep breath and read the damn thing. You might learn something. And to David Seymour: keep poking the bear.
