A proposal to make hate speech a criminal offence, as it is in the United Kingdom, has been stalled and is unlikely to pass before the election. The Government fast-tracked a review of hate speech legislation in the wake of the March 15 Christchurch terror attack last year. Justice
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Are you certain? And now for another excellent point that the New Zealand Law Society made about the government’s approach to the rule of law being so inexcusably
“I will get you that number – I’m sorry I haven’t got it – I’d like to have it as well.” It’s been a week and counting since the Director-General of Health was first asked how many people have left managed isolation without being tested for Covid-
Watercare’s 2013 application with the Waikato Regional Council waits for RMA approval to take an extra 200 megalitres of water to cater to Auckland’s increasing population demands, but 105 applications are ahead of it on the RMA list. Auckland’s reservoirs were depleted during the very dry summer
A message to Todd Muller and the Nats. Do you want to win the election? Here’s your sentence. We will rescind any agreement put in place by this Government that involves the use of taxpayer money to purchase the disputed land at Ihumatao or any other privately owned land
Christchurch Central’s Labour MP has accused city leaders of supporting a “1980s-style austerity” budget that will cost thousands of jobs and damage the city for years to come. Duncan Webb blasted Christchurch City Council on Tuesday for proposing to cut its capital programme by $168 million, and increase
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Ignorance of the law It’s pretty important that the laws of our land are easily enough understood to be obeyed. The system breaks down rather, if that’s
Questions to Ministers TODD MULLER to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement, “we had an expectation that testing was happening in day 3 and day 12 at the moment we went into alert level 1”; if so, on what factual basis was that expectation formed? TAMATI COFFEY
The Prime Minister has stated the tests in quarantine will be compulsory: “We’ve taken the opportunity, while renewing that health order, to make it crystal-clear that individuals must submit to testing and medical exams, including the potential of multiple tests,” Ardern said. Well, it turns out that isn’
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com Letter from Patrick Cooper to Gisborne Herald: In George Orwell’s “1984” he wrote that “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped.
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Mike: We begin as we always do these days with the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who is with us. A very good morning to you. Jacinda: Good morning Mike. Mike: So, how many people left hotels without testing? Jacinda: (Sucks in breath) Well, from the 9th of June of course
A grieving American woman who was allowed to attend her father’s wake just a day after arriving in Auckland was not tested before being granted a compassionate exemption, the Herald can reveal. The case comes as the Government still can’t say today how many people were allowed out
I have to admit, being retired and something of a night owl, I am rarely up in time to catch the Hosking/Ardern segment on a Monday morning. This week, due to an 8.15 am meeting en residence, I had exited the boudoir in time to catch the entire
Yet again we are being bombarded by claims from ratbag squatters that a deal is imminent over the land they are attempting to steal from the land-owners. This time the head squatter is claiming personal involvement of the Prime Minister. A deal could be imminent over Ihumatao after Prime
