The power to send applications to the expert panel will now be concentrated in the Office of the Minister of Infrastructure, Chris Bishop. Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and Transport Minister Simeon Brown will lose their power.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FORESHORE AND SEABED, TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL, MĀORI WARDS Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Ministers’ seafood meeting smells whiffy but within the rules Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): Claims and Counter-Claims Liam Rātana (Spinoff): What is customary marine title and why are some people so scared of
Chris Hipkins is chasing passing cars again. Now he looks like a complete fool, because this judge actually is a communist.
Recently published research indicates that such a position is no longer in any way morally defensible. It is time to speak out freely and correct public misperceptions about mRNA vaccine safety and efficacy.
Free speech begins at home. It begins with countless individuals making countless individual choices to speak their minds and allow others to speak theirs – even, if necessary, to defend to the death their right to do it.
The projected cost blowout of $775m to $3.2b for two interisland ferries.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ENERGY Emma Ricketts (RNZ): Gas not the way out of an energy crisis, expert warns Brent Edwards (NBR): Govt considered being a more active owner of Air NZ, gentailers (paywalled) No Right Turn: Not a solution Luke Malpass (Post): Coalition shows it is taking
Teachers have failed kids, especially in mathematics. Now they are moaning because the government has stepped in to tell them to teach kids properly. They need to sit down, shut up, and do what they’re told.
So complete has been the betrayal of our citizenry, now by successive governments, as to invoke the notion of treason.
Indistinguishable from the government and shipping the gold bounty away to the motherland.
The UN duplicitiously ties the sexualisation and queering of children to their Sustainability Development Goals which New Zealand signed up to in 2015 as Agenda 2030.
Events across the UK, and also more locally, highlight how fundamental rights are being consistently challenged. This is Part One of a two-part Substack looking at the concerning dynamics in play.
What if, sick of being talked down to from above, ordinary New Zealanders decided the time was right to push back a little harder from below?
The populist or anti-Establishment mood that has created electoral earthquakes elsewhere around the world doesn’t appear to have had an impact here, yet this survey might suggest that such latent sentiments might still be growing.
Christopher Luxon has been hitting them out of the park in the past week. Can he keep up the momentum? He will if he doesn’t get squeamish or squirrelly.
