Noeline Taurua was made a Dame of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to netball. During her time playing for the Silver Ferns in the 1990s Taurua won bronze at the Birmingham World Championships in 1995 and silver at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Her
ACT leader David Seymour calls police raid on right-wing gun owner ‘deeply disturbing’ David Seymour warns the Government’s gun law reforms have reached a “dangerous new phase” after a right-wing gun owner had his house targeted and raided by police. […] Seymour says is “deeply disturbing” and raises
Press Release: New Conservative Last night twelve armed police officers raided the home of a young family with a newborn child. No police record and no criminal convictions. The reason for going to the trouble of getting a search warrant and sending twelve officers? A photo from a year ago
Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio. Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician
The day that the public’s trust in Police died can be measured. It was 9 January 2020, the day approximately 12 armed and uniformed goons from the Police metaphorically kicked in the doors of a young Christian family to search for a .22lr lever action rabbit rifle. It is
Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio. Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician
Rosemary Williamson University of New England Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been harshly criticised for being on holiday in Hawaii as the catastrophic bushfires were burning Australia. Since his return, he has visited stricken communities – most recently, on Kangaroo Island yesterday. He has acknowledged the emotional toll on victims and
Leighton Baker New Conservative Leader 2020 has started with a boom, literally, and the world now waits, with apprehension, the ramifications of the elimination of Qasem Soleimani, and the subsequent targeting of US bases. One question that the US top brass must have been asking themselves is, “How long do
Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio. Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician
Last year I wrote a couple of posts about more plastic banning by our PM and what a futile exercise it really is when there are practical solutions available. A little bit of thinking (which is not at the forefront of the skill set possessed by our PM or her
I have never known of a person who does so little and yet gets so many accolades. Jacinda Ardern, our laziest and most ineffective prime minister of all time has now been given yet another award. She has been named ‘Pacific Person of the Year’… although exactly what she has
The Don does not muck about. If rules and regulations are hampering progress, then ditch the rules and regulations. Especially if the progress is being hampered by unwarranted worrying about climate change. Federal agencies would no longer have to take climate change into account when they assess the environmental impacts
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Political photoshops and memes are powerful influencers, just ask Boris Johnson who benefited from the ‘dark arts’ of Kiwi “meme machines” Sean Topham and Ben Guerin. Today’s political photoshop was created by Luke. All we want for this New Year dear readers is to share our content with more
New Zealand First has invoked the ‘Agree to Disagree’ provisions of the Coalition Agreement because it cannot support the announced 11.46 percent increase in the tobacco excise from 1 January 2020. We believe it causes more crime, targets the poor, and simply isn’t effective at reducing numbers of
