Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust Sensible Sentencing Trust is once again reiterating previous calls for harsher punishments to be set as clear deterrents for coward punches in support of Israel Adesanya’s public outcry against the thug who attacked Fau Vake in Auckland over the weekend. “Minimum mandatory
Hobson’s Pledge Trust An appeal is needed to restore certainty to the common law and confine the notion of tikanga to the historical relationships and understandings of those seeking ownership of the coastal area of New Zealand, legal expert Anthony Willy wrote this week. The High Court last week
Back in the pre-European times, the local inhabitants of our fair land were fond of telling stories about, among other things, where and whence they came from. This of course is nothing new as all countries have oral traditions. Most of course had written traditions as well but in the
If you were to believe the mainstream media… well, there’s not much I can do to help you. I might offer you some shares in the Sydney Harbour Bridge though. Going cheap. But I digress: if you really were so astonishingly gullible as to believe the mainstream media, you
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet A new chapter in the Reproductive Revolution! A polyamorous “throuple” in British Columbia has succeeded in a legal battle to have all of their names recorded on their baby’s birth certificate. Bill, Eliza and Olivia have lived as
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust New Zealand needs stronger laws that hold baby bashers to account, sentences that will lock offenders up and provide justice for the young defenceless victims, says Darroch Ball co-leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “The latest Hamilton assault leaving a three-week old baby with
New Zealand’s Royal Commission into the Christchurch shooting rubbishes Jacinda’s gun law response. This has been widely reported in the US and Canada in this article, while I have seen nothing about it in New Zealand media! Police negligence Ardern claimed that new laws were needed because the
In the justly-forgotton Hulk Hogan movie, Suburban Commando, there’s a scene where Hogan knocks over a row of bikers’ rides. Hogan challenges the outraged bikers to pound his face. “What, are you nuts?” one thug responds. “This is the 90s: we’re gonna sue you.” But the presumable high-point
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Pining for the good old days, a golden era of social and moral certainties, is at best a mistake, at worst, folly. As proof, at least on the topics of sexual morality, autonomy and women’s rights, it’s
righttolife.org.uk The Queen’s Speech has set out the Government’s intentions to introduce laws designed to protect freedom of speech at universities. In her speech this Tuesday as part of the State Opening of Parliament, the Queen outlined the Government’s intention to push ahead with the
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. A bombshell ruling from the
The Serious Fraud Office has charged six people over donations to the Labour Party: The Serious Fraud Office has filed charges after an investigation into donations made to the Labour Party in 2017. The criminal charges are against six people in relation to a donation made to the Labour Party
As we have seen from the outset of the Wuhan plague, politicians and bureaucrats around the world have uniformly implemented the worst possible policies and completely refused to learn from their failures. In lockstep, their camp-followers on the left have dutifully cheered on official stupidity and viciously attacked dissenters. As
Worzel mangawhaifocus.co.nz In these mad, bad and sad, days where we get fiction not from novels but from newspapers. Where name-calling and pejorative dismissive idioms like white supremacist, conspiracy nut, transphobic and anti-vaxxer are deemed sufficient argument to refute evidential based logical discourse. So it is when dealing
The Government has announced some draconian new laws, that will apparently deprive gang members of guns. No one has bothered to stop and think it through, or to use even joined-up thinking: The Government will make it illegal for “high-risk people” including gang members and serious criminals to own firearms.
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust The government has announced the introduction of ‘Firearm Prohibition Orders’(FPO) which in a nutshell is telling criminals who don’t care about the laws, that there are more laws in place to not care about, says Darroch Ball co-leader of Sensible Sentencing
