Simon Wilson provided an interesting read in a newspaper on Saturday explaining how to make sense of the Auckland Council election candidates. What particularly caught my eye was his suggestion of judging a candidate by measuring them against some key requirements. Here is Simon’s list of six: * Do they
You really need to understand the anti-car attitude that this government has got. We really do need to be concerned about this. While I have nothing against electric cars in principle, acknowledging that they will work well for some people, clearly they will not work for everyone. They simply
Hobsons Pledge: In 2015, the Ihumatao iwi Te Kawerau a Maki agreed to a full and final settlement of all their grievances and received financial redress of $6.5 million, plus forestry, forestry rentals and more. Fletchers bought private land in the area and announced plans to build 480 homes,
The idea of a Hamilton to Auckland commuter train, on the face of it, looks like a good idea. But is it in the form proposed? In funding this is the government on the right track? The first and probably most important issue is the ticket price. The fare proposed
New Conservative party Press Release: The death of another innocent baby reported last night is an indictment on this government’s ability to provide fundamental protection to the sanctity of human life. “Worrying more about cultural sensitivities than human life shows that MPs are placing more children at risk,” says
You know you are in trouble when you are facing criticism for something that you have done, and all you can do in your defence is to pull the race or gender card. That is what has happened recently when Simon Bridges criticised the prime minister. Instead of being able
Warning This is NOT satire. I REPEAT. This is NOT Satire In another case where the truth is stranger than fiction Green list MP, Associate Transport Minister and writer of secret letters, Julie Anne “Car Fascist” Genter has been exposed for ordering an investigation into BANNING Petrol car imports by
National party Press Release: The government’s intention to exempt the Pike River Mine re-entry team from safety laws and regulations is concerning and inappropriate. One of the most important failures identified by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Pike River was the unsafe design of the mine in
As I’ve written many times, now, Jacinda Ardern is more and more shaping up to be New Zealand’s Kevin Rudd: a fresh-faced leader who rockets up to record highs in the opinion polls and sets the media swooning like a pack of teenage girls – and then collapses
On Thursday Ihumatao protestors marched on Jacinda Ardern’s electorate office and ACT leader David Seymour in response has pointed out that she has brought it on herself by legitimising the protestors unlawful behaviour by capitulating to their illegal occupation as her opening move. It was a serious error of
No, I am not talking about this woeful government. They are most certainly a major handbrake on the economy, but they are going to cost us much more than $3.5 billion. Yes, really. But there is another major handbrake on the economy, and it is going to cost us
Longtime National MP Judith Collins is penning a tell-all book about her time in Government […] The book, which she has yet to name, will have her take on where she sees the country going and the opportunities she thinks should be embraced. “But there will also be quite a
Pondering the tendency of elites to the most extreme manifestations of gibbering climate hysteria, Australian columnist the Mocker has a theory: concentrating so many oxygen thieves in one room cripples their already diminished cognitive abilities. Consequently, people at those forums become irrational, paranoid and prone to hysteria […] It is a
One of the blogs I follow is Up All Night by blogger and journalist Sam White. Yesterday he published an interesting piece about being politically homeless which I think is something that many of us can relate to. It used to be so easy before MMP as it was National
