Lindsay Mitchell Welfare Commentator and researcher lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com In 2019 over 6,000 babies were added to an existing benefit. “Information released to me under the OIA shows that 6,190 caregivers had added one or more ‘subsequent children’ aged less than 12 months to their benefit during 2019.
It’s tit-for-tat, with no end in sight in the immigration skirmish between NZ and Australia. It started with Jacinda Ardern publicly upbraiding Scott Morrison for deporting badly-behaved New Zealanders and is continuing with politicians on both sides of the ditch chipping in. In Australia the Australian
Our ‘impartial’ Speaker was working overtime during Question Time in the House on Tuesday. As usual it was Ardern he was running interference for; but this time it was by proxy – in the form of Winston Peters. Gerry Brownlee was having a fine time playing off the comments of Shane
The NZ First “handbrake” is working again. I wrote a few weeks ago that Stuart Nash was overly confident about getting his anti-shooter bill passed, and voila!, NZ First is holding it up: The Labour party is struggling to get support to pass a new gun law as NZ
Information Satire Having taken steps to solve the problem of the overheating CPU in my Fly On the Wall spyfly device, as outlined in a previous report, your intrepid eyewitness was keen to test the new model. I had managed to further reduce the size of the spyfly from overweight
The three-strikes law should be used against the police as once they have demonstrated three times their incompetence at managing gun records, they should lose the right to manage any future gun registers. There have actually been way more than three examples of Police incompetence when it comes to
Press Release: Stop the War on Tenancies New Zealand’s 290,000 rental property owners should resist radical changes to the Residential Tenancies Act both by submission and by vote in this year’s election, Tenancies War spokesman Mike Butler said on Sunday. The current government has the despicable habit
Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? WILLOW-JEAN PRIME to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Does he
Professor Anne-Marie Brady Supplementary Submission to the New Zealand Parliament Justice Select Committee Inquiry into Foreign Interference Activities, 2019 * Part One: Magic Weapons * Part Two: Leninist tactic * Part Three: Soft Power * Part Four: Making NZ Serve China * Part Five: Why NZ is of interest to China * Part Six: China’
BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a new series that will feature political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the Labour Party: Please send us links to any
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Godwin’s Law: An Internet adage asserting that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1“; that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to
It doesn’t matter how much the government tries to beat up landlords, the landlords will always win. It is always the tenant that pays the price, no matter what. Sure, many landlords are affected by scumbag tenants who leave their property in a bad way, or damage it extensively,
Right now Phil Goff and Lianne Dalziel are under investigation for using a dodgy artifice to launder big donations by holding allegedly fake auctions and declaring those donations as anonymous. As was pointed out in an earlier post, this is a standard, and supposedly illegal, way political parties and candidates
I wonder if today’s face of the day Stuart Nash, the Minister of Police, has yet realised that he is letting the Police Hierarchy screw up his career? Question 11 – David Seymour to the Minister of Police from New Zealand Parliament on Vimeo. Hmm… this video reminds me of
