What the Left Constantly Ignores
If the left (Labour, the Greens, TOP and the Māori Party) was sincere about reducing child hardship they’d stop ignoring crucial evidence.
If the left (Labour, the Greens, TOP and the Māori Party) was sincere about reducing child hardship they’d stop ignoring crucial evidence.
National needs more votes, not a new electoral system.
Imagine asking Gemini about the Musket Wars and being told, in not so many words, that it can’t help you because it’d make Māori look bad. Make no mistake. This isn’t about human rights or “te Tiriti”. It’s a blatant power grab.
Water is a universal necessity and it is not a commodity to be divided along ethnic lines. To yield control of New Zealand’s most vital public asset to tribal interests is to trigger a dangerous constitutional crisis.
Labour will lecture the country about racism while keeping the door open to the most racially focused party in parliament. Some principles, it seems, only apply to the other side.
Taxpayer money must never be weaponised to push a separatist agenda that works against what’s good for all New Zealanders. That’s why we’re not asking for ‘reform’. It’s time to abolish both the Human Rights Commission and the Waitangi Tribunal.
Karl Marx would find much to admire in aspects of TOP’s policy manifesto.
I recently gave a speech to MPs, academics, journalists, and the general public on foreign interference in New Zealand, sharing some real and personal stories of mine.
Māori history and culture is obviously a very important strand in New Zealand society – and often a fascinating one – but the bowdlerised and black-armband version that RNZ provides only hurts its credibility.
If he’s back as prime minister after 7 November he’ll just have to put up with yahoos and numpties around the cabinet table. In fact he’s likely to have more of them.
Someone needs to act like the adult in the room. Right now that person is nowhere to be found.
Ninety days out from the election the race remains tight. The coalition clings to a one-seat majority on paper. Labour has lost ground to a party it hoped would quietly help it.
What you are witnessing in real time with Brian Tamaki is the further erosion of free speech, and the persecution of a person for his beliefs. What happens when you say something just publicly enough to have the cops turn up at your door? Don’t think it would happen to you? Think again.