The Labour Party have provided their MPs with a playground. Is it so that they will feel like they are back in parliament? A reader comments: It’s very similar to their policy’s over the last two years, looks ok at a distance, lacks any substance and ultimately deflates
Press Release: Lindsay Mitchell, Welfare commentator and researcher The number of people on benefits has shot up 5 percent in the last year. According to welfare commentator Lindsay Mitchell latest benefit fact sheets, just released by MSD, show over 15,000 more people receiving a benefit than a year ago.
Lindsay Mitchell ‘Hand-out’ prioritised over ‘hand-up’ Trite as they may sometimes sound there is a good deal of wisdom in ancient proverbs: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime The following
Tracey Martin has decided to challenge the views of her leader, Winston Peters, and Shane Jones over the newly announced child brain-washing curriculum. New Zealand First MP Tracey Martin is defending the controversial climate change teaching resource despite her colleagues speaking out against it for telling students to eat
Press Release: New Conservative Helen Clark has reported that the UN is under threat as the US has cut some funding. We need to ask why it has cut funding, and if that is because the UN has moved on from its initial function, which was to promote world peace.
Dear auntie Fran O’Sullivan is obviously struggling in the news void that always happens at this time of year. I am not even sure if Jacinda is back from holiday yet, and so political journalists find themselves having to make stuff up. In this latest offering, Fran implies that
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com This is quite desperate stuff. The number of people on Jobseeker benefits has gone up 10 percent since December 2018. Here’s Sepuloni’s take: The December quarter benefit numbers released today show the Government’s plan to get people off the benefit and into
Two days ago there were headlines all across the media that a deal was imminent for Ihumatao. The Media party were just repeating the words of an Aussie interloper masquerading as a Maori. There was no verification, no confirmation, just idle speculation. As the truck driver from Huntly took back
Brian Dingwall Dear Simon, Many have been saying that there is no pathway to power for National at the next election. I disagree. Here is the track clearly laid out for you to follow. First read President Trump’s Davos speech. Second, plagiarise the heck out of it for your
It seems that at least some people at ‘A Newspaper’ are starting to finally grasp a glimmer of understanding of what free speech actually means. In fact, they’ve gone so far as allowing the Free Speech Coalition to tell the remaining readers of ‘A Newspaper’ exactly what we have
Swastikas have been spray-painted outside a Jewish place of worship in Wellington as well as outside several other places in the inner city. New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner had the following words to say in response to the anti-semitic attack. The Race Relations Commissioner is calling on
George There aren’t many days when I come up with a good idea and today may not be one of them either, but I have been thinking. We are all aware that as the election draws near the landscape becomes littered with ‘vote for me’ hoardings. The usual theme
