I always tell anyone who asks that the battle for equal opportunity was won in the 1970s. By then, employers had no right to fail to employ anyone on the basis of gender, religion, race or colour. These rules have existed in the Western world for decades; in New Zealand,
righttolife.org.uk UK political satire series Spitting Image has featured a critical take on New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s support for the country’s new euthanasia law. Episode seven of the series, which has returned after a 24-year hiatus, included a sketch of Jacinda Ardern as
Our media may be ignoring it, but there’s other big news coming from the US that is not the US election. The War on Drugs is coming to an end. In the long term, this news may be of more significance than whether Trump or Biden wins. In Oregon
Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet In referenda run alongside parliamentary elections last month, two-thirds of New Zealanders voted to legalise euthanasia, while a small majority voted against legalising marijuana. Results from a further 480,000 special votes, to be published on
The Supreme Court has finally made its decision on the prolonged legal wrangling over the extradition of Kim Dotcom. They said that he can be extradited. Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the United States to face 12 criminal copyright-related charges, the Supreme Court has ruled after a marathon
Stephen Franks Free Speech Coalition The Human Rights Commission is gunning for hate speech laws with taxpayer funding and the support of the Government. The Human Rights Commission report released yesterday has called for a balance to be struck between “freedom of speech and the right to be safe.” It
righttolife.org.uk New Zealand has voted to introduce an extreme assisted suicide law in a binding public referendum. Preliminary results, announced by the country’s electoral commission on Friday, show 65.2% of voters supported the End of Life Choice Act coming into force as a new law. Support
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Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com For the first time since MMP was introduced in 1996, New Zealand voters have given a single political party the absolute power to govern alone. Whether Labour decides to exercise that authority or share their mandate with the Greens, remains to be seen. Whatever arrangement
It’s so easy being Labour: just take gobs-ful of lies and then regurgitate same down the needy throats of voracious, unquestioning, and juvenile media-nesters who swallow them without hesitation. Thus it was with Andrew Little condescendingly trivialising the sexual groping of a female prison officer in ‘alerting’
Andrew Little has signalled yet again that he is hell-bent on repealing the three-strikes law. God only knows why as the rationale for repeal is rather spurious: The law that resulted in a man being sentenced to seven years in jail for grabbing a prison guard’s bottom
righttolife.org.uk The High Court in London will hear a landmark case against the UK Government over the country’s discriminatory abortion legislation, which singles out babies with disabilities by allowing terminations right through to birth for conditions including Down’s syndrome, cleft lip and club foot. Currently in
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