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Police HQ Pressie for Firearms Owners

Police HQ Pressie for Firearms Owners

Some alarming information has come to hand that despite the clear failures from Police that led to the tragedy at Christchurch, the Police are hell-bent on ramming through further changes that materially, negatively affect licensed firearms owners. Chris Cahill, the Police union mouthpiece, is pushing hard for registration and Police

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If Police Can’t Manage Licensing, How on Earth Can They Manage a Register?

If Police Can’t Manage Licensing, How on Earth Can They Manage a Register?

Stuff has an a article outlining just how badly Police are letting down Licensed Firearm Owners with their approach to licensing and re-licensing: Firearms licence applicants are growing increasingly frustrated as police muddle through 10,000 outstanding applications, some dating as far back as November 2015. The issue comes as

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Australian Muslim Groups in Damage Control Mode

Australian Muslim Groups in Damage Control Mode

Australia’s Islamic representatives are in damage control mode after leading Islamic scholars published a document which generated immediate condemnation. Many critics questioned why Islamic scholars are issuing “guidelines” for something which is already well-defined in Australian law – the law which is supposed to apply to all Australians. For critics,

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Facebook, Google to Be Forced to Pay for News Content

Australia is set to pass world-first laws to force tech giants to pay for the content they’ve so far been scraping for free from media companies, as well as sharing their data-collection methods. Is this the last gasp of a dying legacy media – or the first push-back against the

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Protests across Ireland Following Late-Term Abortion Report Release
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Protests across Ireland Following Late-Term Abortion Report Release

righttolife.org.uk Pro-life protests have taken place across Ireland in response to the shocking revelations about the nature and extent of the late-term abortions now occurring in Ireland. Published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, September 2020, a report confirmed that babies are being aborted via foeticide,

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A Subject Both Left and Right Can Agree on

There are some universal truths and people on both the left and the right know them to be true. The looming threat of hate speech laws is not only upsetting  those on the right, against whom they are most likely to be weaponised, but also scaring those on the left

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Legal Car-nage All Over a Banged Up Benz – Part Two

Legal Car-nage All Over a Banged Up Benz – Part Two

The purpose of legal aid is to ensure the right to legal representation for socially and economically disadvantaged people. But is the system being abused in civil cases? In part two of ‘Legal Car-nage All Over a Banged Up Benz’, we seek answers to why an Auckland man has been

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Sneaky Mallard Buries Apology in Big News Day

Sneaky Mallard Buries Apology in Big News Day

Trevor Mallard has apologised for comments he made last year claiming a rapist was working in parliament. But he sneakily waited until after the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch massacre had delivered their report. He made the remarks on RNZ shortly after the release of a report which

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Royal Commission Report – and Yes the Police Let Us down

Royal Commission Report – and Yes the Police Let Us down

Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners The Royal Commission report is now out. The part that covers how the terrorist was able to get a firearms licence and details how we were so badly let down is Part 5. Part 5 the Firearms Licence by Juana Atkins on

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It’s Official: The Prime Minister Wants a New “Hate Speech” Crime

It’s Official: The Prime Minister Wants a New “Hate Speech” Crime

Matt Holden Coordinator Free Speech Coalition The Royal Commission’s report on the Christchurch terror attack has just been released. In response, the Government is seizing on the opportunity: Jacinda Ardern has announced she wants to criminalise so-called “hate speech”. Make no mistake, this is a big kahuna – the Government

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Legal Car-nage All Over a Banged Up Benz

Legal Car-nage All Over a Banged Up Benz

The battle lines have been drawn in possibly one of the most expensive and protracted legal disputes the New Zealand used car industry has ever seen – and we’re still not even close to the finish line. In part one of this two part investigation we explore the issues and

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