Is This True Asylum or Backdoor Immigration
How New Zealand's loopholes are being exploited.
NZ Politics
Wood ’N Spoons
So for the sake of an implement used for stirring, I fear I could become the stirred rather than the stirrer.
Why the Pacific Is Turning to China
The Pacific cultures are simply recognising the growing new international order that is emerging.
On Wish Lists and Reality
A country that tolerates huge numbers of children born into welfare, so many young skipping school, and declining achievement standards amongst those who do attend, can scarcely expect first world standards of health, or any other kind of care. Get real is the message.
News Briefing: 22 April 2025
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Luxon’s Crocodile Tears for Christianity: A Masterclass in Political Pandering
Stop treating Christianity like an embarrassment and start treating it with the same respect you shower on every other religion. Because, right now, your actions scream louder than your words and what they’re saying is that your Christianity is just a hollow prop.
Finlayson Describes ACT as ‘Populist’ in World News
What garbage for National’s former Treaty Minister Finlayson to cat-call ACT as being “populist”.
NZ Must Confront the Hard Questions
We cannot let our asylum system be exploited, nor can we afford to turn a blind eye when that system potentially puts innocent people in harm’s way. New Zealanders deserve a fair and safe society. The balance is off and it is time to fix it.
The Left Are Digging for Defeat
Protest groups, which is all they are, do have a place in a democracy but not in the halls of power. It is up to the voters to ensure this is the case.
Te Pāti Māori’s Ongoing Financial Accountability Issues
If Te Pāti Māori continues down its current path of delays, omissions, and nonchalant defiance, it risks far more than a warning – it risks legal penalties and, more importantly, a tarnished reputation in the eyes of the public.
University Backs Down in Sex Debate
Given that NZ First Minister Casey Costello is currently catching flak for reminding Health New Zealand that, “Only women and people of the female sex can get pregnant and birth a child no matter how they identify,” the scientists’ analysis could hardly be more timely.
China, Throw Down your Wall
Give freedom to your people. Doing so will eliminate America’s trade deficit with your nation and end the tariffs.
Double Standards: Are Adults in the Room?
As humans, I think we can intuitively identify double standards and sadly, we are surrounded by many in society. Our young are beginning to call this out, but are the adults in the room?