Eddie Clark Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Promised changes to New Zealand’s hate speech regulations have been slower to emerge than first anticipated. But a recently released cabinet paper finally gives some idea of what is being considered. The proposals were originally intended to be made public
righttolife.org.uk Only 10 percent of health professionals in New Zealand are “definitely willing” to perform euthanasia according to a recent survey by the New Zealand Ministry of Health. In New Zealand, euthanasia and assisted suicide were made legal in 2020 and the new law will come into force
National started looking at it a few years ago, Phil Twyford worked on it in 2019 and Michael Wood has been continuing the work to date. It seems that everyone is trying to figure out how to keep the cash flowing from the long-suffering cash-cow, the motorist. Stuff
Information Satire Some readers may recall that your intrepid eyewitness has, on several occasions, crossed metaphorical swords with two police officers, Officers Rawsprat and Hagar, both of whom represent the new woefully woke and unfortunately increasingly prevalent wing of the police farce. As it had been some time since my
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “ACT’s petition to protect the free speech of New Zealanders and oppose the Government’s proposed hate speech laws on Saturday reached 10,000 signatures,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “Our ACT caucus has been travelling the country with our Free Speech Tour.
James Sikkema McMaster University James Sikkema is a teaching-award winning philosophy professor at McMaster University specializing in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and applied ethics. In the last few years he has become increasingly active in public intellectual work, whether through doing philosophy with/for children, hosting public
In the long-gone days of the Jim Crow South, racist Democrat voters and their demagogue politicians used to intimidate juries by parading outside courthouses in their pointy hoods. In the new era of Jim Snow, racist Democrat voters and their demagogue politicians show up in hoodies and face-masks.
PM Jacinda Ardern says we will know ‘hate speech’ when we see it. Whilst her government is very keen to impose hate speech laws on us it is not so keen to define what ‘hate speech’ actually is. The government’s hate speech game is therefore Russian roulette. You spin
This post was written before the trial verdict was delivered. It has been updated. If it weren’t for the overwhelming evidence that Maxine Waters is little more than a drooling idiot, I’d suspect she was deliberately trying to trigger a mistrial in Minneapolis. As lawyers wound up their
Next Sunday when we celebrate ANZAC Day and pay tribute to the New Zealanders who fought and died in two horrendous World Wars, we must all remind ourselves of the two main reasons for their supreme sacrifices: Our freedom and our sovereignty as a nation. For in this year of
As the Derek Chauvin murder trial draws to its end, it’s worth noting just how egregiously the mainstream media have lied about it. Yes, shocking, I know: the mainstream media lie. That’s why you need independent media, like The BFD, to try and get to the truth when
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. District Headquarters Hospital Faisalabad is a 570-bed hospital in the second-largest city in the Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Like all hospitals in Pakistan, it is under pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Prime Minister yesterday told her weekly press conference she was “disheartened” the ACT Party doesn’t want to engage with the Government over its proposed Hate Speech Laws, despite ACT writing to the Justice Minister and agreeing for the caucus to meet with
Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners Submissions on the proposed new regulations for firearms close in 6 days. If these proposals go ahead, there will be significantly more regulation for dealers, security arrangements for LFOs and increased cost. You can read our final draft submission here. We have
