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Porter Turns the Legal Tables on His Media Accusers

Porter Turns the Legal Tables on His Media Accusers

The ABC-led media-elite witch hunt against Australian Attorney-General Christian Porter has followed a drearily familiar script. Trumped-up allegations, an unfashionably conservative target and an unscrupulous media whipping up a frenzied lynch-mob. The method is the same whether the target is a frumpy church-goer (Lindy Chamberlain), an unashamedly conservative clergyman (Cardinal

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One Rule for Government, Another for the Rest of Us
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One Rule for Government, Another for the Rest of Us

Housing New Zealand, now rebranded as Kainga Ora, has been given power by the government to issue its own building consents. A branch called Consentium has been set up within the organisation, which will also carry out its own inspections and code compliance certification. This is because the government has

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Time’s up for softly, softly approach to gun crime

Time’s up for softly, softly approach to gun crime

ACT Party ACT Party Firearms Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee “A concerted effort involving law changes and far greater resources is needed to turn soaring levels of gun crime around,” says ACT Party Firearms Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Some of the unintended consequences of the Government’s two pieces of rushed

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NZ Police Admit Border Checkpoints Were in the Wrong Place

NZ Police Admit Border Checkpoints Were in the Wrong Place

On February 15 this year, as a result of one positive case of the ‘Rona that had snuck through our gold standard border controls, the “Princess of Pestilence” threw Auckland into its third lockdown, complete with Police and Armed Forces manning checkpoints on the outskirts of Auckland’s regional boundaries.

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Just as the Ministry of Truth was about the exact opposite, today’s face of the day Jan Tinetti is the Minister for Women. We know we are living in Clown World when the minister in charge of promoting the rights of women, is in fact advocating for the right

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‘Dictator Dan’ Hoist by His Own Petard

‘Dictator Dan’ Hoist by His Own Petard

As I reported for The BFD last year, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews’s attempt to whitewash away his hotel quarantine disaster with the Coate Inquiry was surely not going to be the end of investigations into the affair. In a supremely fitting irony, the very “industrial manslaughter” laws brought in

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Things That Make Me Go…

Things That Make Me Go…

Under the so-called “Equality Act” that Speaker Nancy Pelosi just rammed through the U.S. House, doctors and nurses who REFUSE to commit an abortion that a patient wants could be charged with “discrimination on the basis of pregnancy!” The Equality Act would force employers to cover abortion, and medical

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Rule of Law at Risk from Resurgent Barbarism

Rule of Law at Risk from Resurgent Barbarism

In a sleepy little town here in Northern Tasmania, tucked away in a quiet corner of a local park, is a grim reminder of a not-so-distant past: the village stocks. They’re now something for tourists to pose for happy snaps in, but once upon a time they were a

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The Heroes We Had to Have

The Heroes We Had to Have

Noting the recent death of porn king Larry Flynt, one of my friends commented, “The guy might have been a creep, but, damn, he fought for our free speech rights when no one else would.” Sometimes you can’t pick and choose the heroes of freedom. Real heroes aren’t

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Letter to the Editor: Coming Ready or Not
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Letter to the Editor: Coming Ready or Not

Dear Editor With an absolute majority, a large Maori caucus, and those Labour MPs who hold Maori seats afraid of losing their seats to the extremist Maori Party unless they are seen to promote Maori interests above any others, this Government will be pushed to install as much Maori privilege

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Two Years and Still No Medicinal Cannabis

A Member’s Bill that would make New Zealand’s medicinal cannabis scheme more affordable and more accessible to those that need it has been voted down by the Labour Government. “National first announced this legislation in 2018 and encouraged the Government to pick up the enormous amount of work

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Why Does Ayesha Verrall Want to Make All Vaping Shops Illegal?

Why Does Ayesha Verrall Want to Make All Vaping Shops Illegal?

The vaping regulations promoted by Ayesha Verrall will ban most vaping products and probably force vaping stores to close. This is not the Minister’s intent, it is due to a conflict between the legislation and the proposed regulations. The government is spending heavily on promoting vaping, while at the

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In Defence of Andrew Cuomo
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In Defence of Andrew Cuomo

Ok, this one is gonna hurt, but: Andrew Cuomo should not be brought down by accusations of sexual harassment aired through the media. Wait, what? That Andrew Cuomo? Yes, that Andrew Cuomo. I’m not going to hide the fact that I despise Andrew Cuomo – but that doesn’t matter.

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Scott Morrison Stands by Decency and the Rule of Law

Scott Morrison Stands by Decency and the Rule of Law

The Australian left are in full Stalin mode, with a dash of Salem 1692. Australian politics is now being run by anonymous denunciations, show trials and witch-hunts. The rule of law and due process have been consigned to the dustbin of history as a screaming mob of left-wing politicians and

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