If You Commit a Crime, You Leave
Time for New Zealand to grow some balls on criminal deportations.
Time for New Zealand to grow some balls on criminal deportations.
The Māori seats gave us this circus. Maybe next election the voters will finally decide they’ve had enough of the soap opera and send the whole lot packing. One can but hope.
Inside the offender-first justice system that keeps releasing New Zealand’s monsters.
A weak government and apathetic public are taking us towards an unworkable mishmash of democracy and ethnocracy.
We should not have to put up with biased media. Journalism should be independent, impartial, and balanced. Their mission should be to inform citizens, not manipulate them.
This rot goes deep. It is systemic. And until someone with a backbone rips the whole corrupt structure apart and rebuilds it, nothing will change.
RNZ, as a taxpayer-owned entity has a responsibility to ensure its coverage of news and current affairs is neutral, fair and balanced – an obligation that it constantly disregards.
According to the Gisborne Herald, the council’s chief executive mused that “another option to slow traffic could be to reduce the speed limit”. After spending a million dollars, they finally think of that.
Go the Breakers. And go the coalition. Please. As crises go, the rot at the top of the cops is a whopper. Use it well.
Unless it is radically rethought – or preferably abandoned – it will create more problems than it solves and set the stage for even worse legislation to follow.
And redeems herself. The furore over Treaty flip-flop boosts her credentials.
The voters are speaking, Chris. They are just not saying what you want to hear. And the louder you keep blaming Labour, the more you sound exactly like the people we booted out two years ago.
She says they are now moving toward punitive action that could leave her unemployed by January, when her hearing is due to take place.
If you’ve been watching the recent turmoil within the Greens and Te Pāti Māori and Labour, Loudon’s book invites you to look more closely at the people behind the politicians, who and what motivates them – and to draw your own conclusions.