Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements, policies, and actions? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by all of the Government’s statements, policies, and actions in relation to the economy? Dr DUNCAN
Until recently, the Crown owned New Zealand’s coastline on behalf of all New Zealanders. In 2011 parliament passed the Marine and Coastal Area Act which confiscated public ownership of the foreshore and seabed and then allowed Maori to claim title and ownership rights. As a result, Maori lodged nearly
It looks like the Green Party is starting to haemorrhage support for one of their most important policies, the right to blaze up willy nilly. According to the latest in a series of three surveys commissioned by New Zealand’s largest licensed medicinal cannabis company Helius Therapeutics, Green Party voters
The botch-up that was last years Census has a lot of ramifications – more than most of us realise. One of the things that will be affected is the 2020 election. Normally, a census will result in the redrawing of electoral boundaries, which are often adjusted because of population changes.
Last Friday we discovered that the Auckland mayoralty has just two candidates with a real shot at the prize. Ex-Labour MPs Phil Goff and John Tamihere will square off ahead of the pack of 19 others after ex-mayor John Banks withdrew his nomination closely followed by John Palino
ACT party Press release: The government needs to come clean about what types of firearms are being handed in as part of its buy-back scheme because the numbers suggest the taxpayer is buying a large collection of pop guns. The headline figures of the number of firearms collected has
National party press release: The early release of double murderer Jason Reihana without telling his victims’ families is an appalling breach of victims’ rights and shows Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has lost control of his department, Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges says. “Jason Reihana carried out what can only
This week’s roasting is for Julie Anne Genter and her secret letter. https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/08/hooton-on-genter/ Blockhead was puzzled by the story: Why didn’t Twyford tell Genter to get lost, that the proposal was unacceptable etc. As the senior minister where was his
ACT party press release: Shane Jones is paying almost $1 million to get each ‘neph’ off the couch through his Provincial Growth Fund”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. On Newshub Nation Saturday morning, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones said his slush fund had created well over 1000 jobs
Can you imagine a Stuff headline that reads: The brown, female, youthful face of local government What about: The black, male, senior face of local government How about this real headline? Why on earth did anyone think that it was okay to critique councils not by their effectiveness or combined
By George When Ardern scarpered to Paris with the intention of hauling social media sites over the coals, little did they know that New Zealand, under Arden’s watch, only wanted to cut out the middleman. Corrections, it appears, has its own method of spreading the gospel according to Brenton
Tracey Martin agrees with Maori who blame Oranga Tamariki for the appalling over-representation of Maori in our child abuse statistics. “Minister for Children Tracey Martin has delivered a blistering verdict on New Zealand’s failure to care for its most vulnerable children, saying “the system has failed”.” Stuff She
Jacinda sees herself as a climate warrior. Let’s face it… climate change is her generation’s ‘nuclear moment’, even though she does not seem to understand that there have been no nuclear explosions (Thank God) since 1945, other than tests, and they have mostly been condemned. The North Koreans
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