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Fair & Reasonable Campaign UPDATE
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Fair & Reasonable Campaign UPDATE

Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign It’s been another busy week on the campaign fighting for fair and reasonable firearms law reform, as we defend the rights of responsible firearms owners like you from overly restrictive and counterproductive changes to firearms laws. 2019 Police trust and confidence survey

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Interesting Random Encounters With Police Firearms Staff

Interesting Random Encounters With Police Firearms Staff

Last week I spent time up in the middle of the North Island while hooning about the countryside and it so happened that I randomly bumped into a couple of NZ Police staff who are actively involved in the Police Firearms scene. One was an officer who was heavily involved

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Face of the Day: Oops

Face of the Day: Oops

I’m not sure that Labour thought that video through properly… An impressive list of spending and announcements of things to do…later. Achievements? Is spending money like there is no tomorrow really an achievement? Are announcements achievements? Are setting aspirational targets achievements? Is being the first in the world

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Oral Questions – 6 November 2019

Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s policies and actions? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by all his statements and policies? KIRITAPU ALLAN to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he

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Trans-Tasman Talk

LIVE: Trans-Tasman Talk Ep.9 – Guy Fawkes Special

Join Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms at 9pm this evening for what is bound to be an explosive Guy Fawkes special. We’ll be talking the Melbourne Cup, Andrew Little’s proposed Ministry of Truth, this week’s Shane Jones outrage, and other positioning for the 2020 election. Australia

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Labour’s Two Years of Progress

Labour’s Two Years of Progress

Press Release: Labour Party This week [ Oct 25th], we’re taking action on climate change, expanding trades education – and celebrating two years of progress! Here’s what we’ve been busy with this week: 1. We announced a world-first plan with farmers to reduce emissions We have a plan

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Stuart Nash’s Bugger’s Muddle Gun Law Changes
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Stuart Nash’s Bugger’s Muddle Gun Law Changes

Andrew Dickens has seen through the bugger’s muddle gun law changes of Stuart Nash: We seem to have got into a bit of a muddle over guns and it seems to be getting worse. After the March terror attacks using the infamous AR 15, a semi-automatic military style

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Why Won’t the Greens Follow the Science with GM?
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Why Won’t the Greens Follow the Science with GM?

The Greens like to hector us over climate change by insisting “the science is settled”. However, they steadfastly refuse to follow the science with regard to genetic modification. Peter Griffin writes: The Green Party has long had a tenuous relationship with science. The low point came in 2014, when Green

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Oral Questions – 5 November 2019

Questions to Ministers 1. GREG O’CONNOR to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy? 2. Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s actions and policies? 3. MARK PATTERSON to the Minister for Regional

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End of Life Choice Rolls On

End of Life Choice Rolls On

Press Release: ACT Party There has never been such comprehensive parliamentary scrutiny of a bill as the End of Life Choice Bill. 39,000 public submissions, 16 months in select committee, four months in Committee of the Whole House, nearly two years from First Reading to Third Reading. The Third

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Plenty of Room at the Trough as Goff Makes the Trough BIGGER
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Plenty of Room at the Trough as Goff Makes the Trough BIGGER

Phil Goff has tried to appease everyone by expanding the size of the Auckland Council trough. Now all can have a swill, even his opponents: Phil Goff appears to be trying to keep even his political opponents onside,  finding a role for all 20 councillors in a widened committee structure

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Where Is Vodafone Going to Draw the Line?

Where Is Vodafone Going to Draw the Line?

New Zealand’s Chief Censor David Shanks has banned an online video game that he says “celebrates white extremist mass murder”. He has classifed it as objectionable under the Films, Videos & Publications Classification Act 1993. His office also reached out to New Zealand internet service providers (ISPs) to notify

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The Arming of the NZ Police Is a Cross Party Issue

The Arming of the NZ Police Is a Cross Party Issue

I have no time whatsoever for co-leader of the Green Party Marama “ladies’ private part” Davidson but when it comes to the arming of the police we can find common ground with her. When people like Marama demanded action from the government after the Christchurch terror attack it never

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A Bloody Shame: No Funding for ‘Period Poverty’

A Bloody Shame: No Funding for ‘Period Poverty’

Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter’s bid for period poverty funding has failed. What a bloody shame. The idea that some girls and women can’t afford tampons makes some people sad. They think about it quite a lot actually. In fact, it would be fair to say that

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