CTV Families Back the Inquiry, but There Are Issues
As Tauranga faces dual inquiries and multiple investigations, CTV families are urging strong family representation, whistleblower protections and a genuinely open process.
As Tauranga faces dual inquiries and multiple investigations, CTV families are urging strong family representation, whistleblower protections and a genuinely open process.
Journalists are further degrading the public’s trust in them.
I would argue that the very reason the Nats are doing poorly is precisely because they have not followed through on their mandate for change. We need them to take action now, before it is too late.
Luxon might have bought himself some breathing room but, with Peters on the rise and National’s support leaking like a sieve, the albatross around his neck just got heavier.
It’s all fun and games and virtue-signalling until the oil runs out.
Hidden myocarditis warnings while mandating two doses for teens. Who will be held accountable?
However this messy scenario plays out, whatever way the wind blows, Chippie has done Labour no favours. The question now is whether they ditch him or, like the sheep they are, get in behind. Riveting times ahead.
He built this mess and now he wallows in it. His blanket denials could unravel him, especially if proof emerges. Recall my cardinal political rule: explaining is losing.
The problem is that once a power like this exists, it rarely stays confined to one purpose. The same law that clears a footpath today could just as easily clear a protest tomorrow.
Confidence we’d get a hard hitting report was low.
If the rule of law is to mean anything in this country, the creeping judicial elevation of tikanga must be dismantled. The integrity of our legal order, and the equality of every New Zealander before the law, depends on it.
There will be more to come on this. Jade Paul has not resiled from her accusations. Hipkins has offered no defence. Only denial.