In case you’ve not seen it, yesterday Stuff “broke” the story that Brenton Tarrant was given a firearms licence without going through the required vetting – a breach of the Police’s own policy. The March 15 terrorist was wrongly granted a firearms licence due to a string of police
Since we are revising history and expunging inconvenient racists from our history, perhaps it is time to look at some left-wing racists and ask whether we should remove their portraits and monuments because of the racist views they held. Jacinda Ardern chooses to have the portrait of a terrible
OPINION: What’s up DOC? Why has the Department of Conservation failed to come to the party and reduce the fees it charges more than 4600 concessionaires in the conservation estate? Across the heartland, adventure and eco-tourism operators are wrestling with this fees regime at the same time they’
This is a major, difficult task for Council and for its ratepayers. Unfortunately, the Council has a shaky history: more than 10 years of so-called consultation in which it has used persuasive language to try and achieve its own desired ends. It seems to many including me, that it
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Perspectives I am a National Party MP. As such, I’m a member of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition, at least for a few more months. Some have been
Questions to Ministers TAMATI COFFEY to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy and our response to COVID-19? TODD MULLER to the Prime Minister: Is she confident her Government has the systems in place and the competence required to increase the number
Andrew Little appears to have an affinity with things dark. First, it was a mine where he finally saw the light and gave up on the ridiculous hope of bringing out the dead. Now he is focusing on life and involving himself in the Black Lives Matter perversity as Minister
The Government looks set to forge ahead with its gun reforms after a last-minute agreement was forged between Labour and NZ First. This will include establishing an independent entity to take over firearms licensing and administration. Progress on the bill, which includes a firearms registry, harsher penalties, and a
Rachel Poulain Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition The last few weeks have demonstrated that 2020 has no intention of slowing down. It has been just over two weeks since the death of George Floyd and already the tidal-wave of reactions seem to have washed away any thought COVID-19. For
I have a question. Where is National? Are they still breathing? I know one of them is, the Senior Whip because I had the pleasure of having lunch with her last week. I ask the question because, while being the party representing the farming sector, they are failing to vocalise
When Golriz Gharaman told Newshub Nation that our colonial statues and memorials should be removed because the “hurtful aspects of history don’t represent us now”, I hoped Tova O’Brien would remind her about her country of birth’s violent history of destroying statues and monuments of the previous
Richard Harman wrote at Politik yesterday about the National Party selection in Takanini over the weekend. National’s new leader Todd Muller set out yesterday to answer critics who had charged that his “Make America Great Again” cap and the absence of any Maori on his new front bench pointed
What is wrong with this picture? A disease specialist publicly supports the government’s illegal lockdown and stays supportive even after the modelling the decision was based off is revealed to be complete rubbish. She then receives a high position on the party list. Was it a reward? If so
The Taxpayer’s Union is giving taxpayers the opportunity to get to know their MPs beyond photo-ops and party-line speeches. In this episode, Islay Aitchison interviews National MP Paul Goldmith.
