NZ Politics
How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas
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Where Was the Te Papa Security?
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Here’s the first thing that came to mind after the news that protestors had been abseiling inside Te Papa
Ahem… We Don’t Care What Officials Think. They Work for Us
We are getting many news stories published where we are told that “officials” have advised the Government that they should keep this, or that, or simply not do something that voters elected the Government to deliver, because they don’t agree with the policy. The latest is “officials” opposing any
‘I Can’t Wait for the Trial, Honestly. Bring It On’
Mark Freeman Covid vaccine data whistleblower Barry Young says he can’t wait for his trial. On Monday he pleaded not guilty in the Wellington District Court to a charge of accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes. A former database administrator for Health New Zealand’s (Te Whatu Ora)
More Work Needed on Freshwater Rules
dailytelegraph.co.nz CHANGES TO FRESHWATER RULES ARE A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION BUT MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE IF THE NEW GOVERNMENT ARE SERIOUS ABOUT RESTORING FARMER CONFIDENCE, FEDERATED FARMERS FRESHWATER SPOKESPERSON COLIN HURST SAYS. “The National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management is without a doubt the
Maori Have Still to Wake Up
Maori activists need to wake up to what it is that will lift their people off the bottom of the statistics in health, education, welfare and prosperity. It is simply this: a vibrant economy, and after six years of a Labour Government, we have anything but that. Christopher Luxon knows
Stop in the Name of Love
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com NZDSOS Call to Stop In the Name of Love We have recently been horrified by an advert for an event in Tolaga Bay. The event is the Funky Whanau Xmas in the Park and guess who will be there? The Mobile
Truth Will Out
Over the weekend two columns highlighted Grant Robertson’s appalling track record as history sets about judging him as the worst Finance Minister to have ever graced the Treasury benches. Truth will out. First up was Matthew Hooton: Yesterday’s shock 0.3 per cent decline in GDP in just
Finally, Wellington Can Get Moving
David Seymour ACT Party Leader ACT welcomes the end of the ironically named Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM). The left-wing fantasy project was a drain on taxpayers and ratepayers, and would have achieved the exact opposite of what it says on the tin. ACT’s coalition agreement with
The Cough Medicine That Works Is Back
If you have a cold or ’flu, the new Government has come to your rescue by returning the good drugs back to chemists’ shelves. The reason they were removed in the first place was because those good drugs have pseudoephedrine in them, a key ingredient in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
It’s Always Been Broken
Tani Newton In my last article, Socialism Saws Off the Branch It Sits On, I argued that the school system is collapsing because society is collapsing, society is collapsing because the family is collapsing and state schooling is a major driver of that because it undermines the natural family and
My Letter to Te Papa
hobsonspledge.nz Many New Zealanders were angry at the news of an attack on the display depicting the English version of the Treaty of Waitangi at Te Papa this week. The disrespect shown by the vandals to our national museum and the Treaty is utterly unacceptable. Since the incident, the
We Are on the Way Down
Harry Palmer I reckon the emergence of the contempt politicians now openly express for voters began in the 1980s, when the British and Kiwi Governments sold off the ‘family silver’ of publicly owned utilities, like power generation and railways. It seems they did it just for the sake of it,
Face of the Day
“I understand that some local authorities have been developing programmes with NZTA and other stakeholders to reduce vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT) by the light vehicle fleet, using funding from the Climate Emergency Response Fund,” [Transport Minister Simeon Brown wrote]. “I have given notice to NZTA to end its work on