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Flexible Laws and Race Register Key to Racial Harmony

Flexible Laws and Race Register Key to Racial Harmony

Dave Witherow Information Satire Dave Witherow, who was a long time columnist with the Otago Daily Times, emigrated to New Zealand from Northern Ireland in 1971. He’s an author, script writer, and worked as a scientist for Fish and Game. Diversity, as all right-thinking people are now agreed, is

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Appeal Riles Opotiki Coastal Claimant Group
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Appeal Riles Opotiki Coastal Claimant Group

Hobson’s Pledge Trust A member of a Bay of Plenty group awarded customary rights and title to parts of the coastal area around Opotiki is questioning what right the Landowners Coalition of Whangarei has appealing the High Court decision that went in favour of the tribal group. Karen Mokomoko

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Why ‘Stirring up Hatred’ Cannot Be Successfully Defined

Why ‘Stirring up Hatred’ Cannot Be Successfully Defined

In New Zealand, we already have adequate legal protection from speech that incites violence or murder. It is already illegal to incite others to kill or physically harm an individual or group. It is already illegal for a person to threaten to kill or harm another person. This is one

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Speak up for Women File Proceedings against Auckland Council

Speak up for Women File Proceedings against Auckland Council

Joint Media Release: Speak up for Women & Free Speech Union Today, representatives from Speak Up For Women filed proceedings against the Auckland and Palmerston North Councils, following the cancellation of room bookings for public events that were to go ahead later this week. Nicolette Levy QC will be acting

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Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Religious Liberty over LGBTQ Rights – And Nods to a Bigger Win for Conservatives Ahead
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Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Religious Liberty over LGBTQ Rights – And Nods to a Bigger Win for Conservatives Ahead

Morgan Marietta University of Massachusetts Lowell Morgan Marietta studies the political consequences of belief. He is the author of four books, The Politics of Sacred Rhetoric: Absolutist Appeals and Political Influence, A Citizen’s Guide to American Ideology, A Citizen’s Guide to the Constitution and the Supreme Court, and

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Baby ‘Left to Die’ after Failed Abortion
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Baby ‘Left to Die’ after Failed Abortion

righttolife.org.uk A baby born alive after an unsuccessful late-term abortion was “left gasping without medical assistance for two hours before dying” at a hospital in New Zealand. The incident follows the passing of the Abortion Legislation Bill introduced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Government in 2020, which

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Can Trans ‘Women’ Ever be Truly Female?

Can Trans ‘Women’ Ever be Truly Female?

Should an employer have the right to fire an employee who expresses the view that a trans woman can never be truly a female? The Daily Mail article reads: “ ‘I was just fighting for everyone’s right to hold an opinion’: Mother who lost her job for saying trans women

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Psst, You Want to Be Exempt from Wearing a Mask?

Psst, You Want to Be Exempt from Wearing a Mask?

Logic, it seems, has never been a strong point of this government. Examples pop up every day to remind us that ‘joined up thinking’ is a completely foreign concept amongst our current ruling elite. Whether it be killing off any chance we had for surety of energy supply, boldly claiming

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Open Letter to Jacinda Ardern

Open Letter to Jacinda Ardern

It is with great concern that I write this but I feel compelled to do so, before the subsequent change in hate speech laws. These laws will basically curtail any and all debate over such issues as a report that will, without any consultation with the majority of the voting

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Tikanga in Law: What Does It Mean?

John Robinson hobsonspledge.nz John Robinson, a career scientist with a PhD from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology who has also written When Two Cultures Meet, The Kingite Rebellion, Unrestrained Slaughter: The Maori Musket Wars 1800-1840, and Hone Heke’s War. He co-wrote One Law or Two Monarchs. A friend

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Will Tikanga Law Include Cannibalism?

Will Tikanga Law Include Cannibalism?

Hobson’s Pledge Trust Will Tikanga law, that a High Court justice cited in a coastal area ruling, include inter-tribal warfare, cannibalism, slavery, and other primitive customs, or will it just be a modern version, historian Dr John Robinson asked this week. Dr Robinson, who wrote Dividing the nation: the

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New Rules Set to Encroach on Private Property Rights

New Rules Set to Encroach on Private Property Rights

Susan Short Secretary democracyaction@xtra.co.nz Anger has erupted around the country over the Government’s much stronger approach to protect indigenous biodiversity, as outlined in the Draft National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity (NPSIB). Due to take effect in July 2021, it contains a set of objectives and

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