New Zealand repealed its blasphemy law in 2019. Section 123 of the Crimes Act 1961 – “blasphemous libel” was formally removed by parliament. Yet here we are, 60 years later, watching an unelected regulatory body attempt to recreate the same offence through the back door.
The time for complacency is over. And this should be a wake-up call for the coalition: they should see the referendum result as their failure to rid the country of the influence of He Puapua.
It’s a strategic blunder – swapping value-added clout for commodity vulnerability.
The internet is not their playground: it is ours. And we will keep it that way.
It’s a silence more revealing than any chant. It exposes the moral bankruptcy of those who posture as humanitarians while echoing the slogans of Hamas.
Authorities shut down the March for New Zealand protest.
When I visited the Gaza envelope earlier this year, I took one critical question with me and now I think I have an answer.
When a code of conduct stops regulating behaviour and starts enforcing belief, democracy is in danger. Clause 8 turns councillors into compliant subjects of an ideology they never voted for.
Luxon needs to wake up and start delivering or the party might find itself facing more than just bad headlines. The voters are sending a message and it’s high time National listened.
The last of the true farmer prime ministers, he led New Zealand for seven years and the National Party for 11 years.
From self-rated 8/10 to embarrassing Māori ward defeat.
Trying to communicate with a multi-headed te reo gabbling chook.
Flaxmere College receives $262,720 of marginal funding per year as the highest EQI school in NZ. This is a 2.14 per cent addition to the funding level any high school in New Zealand receives. It works out at less than five dollars per student per day.
Many might think it would seem at least naïve not to at least raise the question as to whether the damage consistently inflicted upon a formerly far more stable and happy country has been at least partly because of politicians who may possibly be oikophobic, prioritising their own personal agenda.
We have lost our way. We lack gratitude, humility and forgiveness. We lack brotherly love. We lack meaning and purpose. We can see it most clearly in our parliament with TPM and the Greens. There is no gratitude: just an endless whine of victimhood.
