We have seen a bit written about the arrest outside a Christchurch Countdown supermarket over the last week or so. Just for the record, I had no input to the first article by Cam, only a tiny input to the second article and basically nothing in the follow-up article yesterday.
Dane Giraud fsu.nz Dane Giraud is a member of the Jewish Community and a Council Member of the Free Speech Union. Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt’s op-ed Tuesday defending the government’s proposed hate speech laws is thoroughly predictable after a month of terrible comms that failed
The BFD has several ex-Police officers who advise us from time to time on Policing matters. They have provided the following observations regarding the arrest of a man in Christchurch for not wearing a mask. Relevant legislation: S.315 of the Crimes Act 1961 allows for arrest without a warrant.
Last week, with little fanfare, and near-zero media commentary, Australia slid deeper into a surveillance state. The occasion was the passing of the The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021. The final bill was passed after just 24 hours. Major media outlets like the ABC ignored it. The
Family First Bob McCoskrie National Director In yet another breathtaking act of ‘social engineering’ – while most of the country is rightly focused on more important issues such as COVID, the economy, health, education, drugs and family violence – the Government is prioritising a law change which will deem birth certificates meaningless,
Family First NZ Family First NZ has released a legal opinion on the proposed law to ban ‘conversion therapy’ bill which says that the bill will have a ‘chilling effect’ on freedom of expression concerning gender issues, and will fail in its stated purpose of promoting respectful and open discussions
When does “absolutely free” not actually mean “absolutely free”? Apparently, when everyone is running around, Chicken Little style, panicking over a new virus from China. Australia’s Constitution states that “trade, commerce, and intercourse among the States, whether by means of internal carriage or ocean navigation, shall be absolutely free”
Chris Trotter bassettbrashandhide.com When Daily Blog Editor, Martyn Bradbury, says Labour’s lucky the country’s currently distracted by the Covid-19 Delta Variant, he’s right. Were New Zealand safe and out of Lockdown, it would be in the midst of a dangerously divisive row about Oranga Tamariki, the
Stuff has reported that the head of Oranga Tamariki and two senior judges intervened in a part-heard Family Court hearing over a five-year-old girl. Oranga Tamariki was trying to remove the girl from her foster family because they were not Maori, arguing they could not meet her cultural needs. Partway
Karen Chhour ACT Children spokesperson The Judicial Conduct Commissioner needs to become involved in a case where the Acting Head of Oranga Tamariki and two judges became inappropriately involved in a case. The Acting Head of Oranga Tamariki – Wira Gardiner and two senior judges intervened in a case that was
If people think the mask exemption download/printout from the Covid19 website is going to get them into the supermarket maskless they are in for a shock as was my adult daughter at Countdown Riverbank Lower Hutt last night. She wasn’t approached at all and asked where her mask
Days ago, a Victorian Supreme Court challenge against that state’s lockdown laws was dismissed. While that case is headed for appeal, a second challenge to the iron rule of Premier Daniel Andrews is headed for court. This time, against the shocking decision to impose yet another dusk-to-dawn curfew on
Bob McCoskrie National Director Family First The Government set a deadline date for submissions on the bill to ban “conversion therapy” of less than 4 weeks – the shortest time possible. They basically don’t want to hear from you, are not actually interested in your view, and are hoping you’
Oxford-educated, former police prosecutor Simon Bridges has always been thorough when perusing proposed legislation. As National’s justice spokesperson he has been all over the banning conversion therapy bill like a rash and found it wanting. Attorney General David Parker? Not so much. Using the media’s usual ridicule approach,
