lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Appointed by new Labour PM Jacinda Ardern in 2018, Cindy Kiro headed the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (WEAG) tasked with reviewing and recommending reforms to the welfare system. Kiro had been Children’s Commissioner during Helen Clark’s Labour government but returned to academia subsequently. In 2019
Less than a week ago the Prime Minister for the Commonwealth of Australia rose in Parliament House, Canberra and said ‘sorry’ twelve times. That’s quite sorry, by any scale of sorriness. He was apologising for the hurt, not just the physical hurt, but the emotional harm, described by one
Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com Many of the comments about the Coalition’s determination to wind back the dramatic Maorification of New Zealand
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The Maori Party MPs are once again showing their petulance, contempt and childish behaviour for anything that they don’t like. They’re throwing their taonga takaros (toys) out of the moenga (cot). They have made it very clear that they are going to try and make the Guinness Book
hobsonspledge.nz It was sadly predictable. Less than two weeks ago, I wrote to you celebrating the strong commitment which the three parties which form our new Government have made to restore our democracy, where every citizen has the same rights before the law. I particularly liked their commitment to
Todd Stephenson ACT MP The Human Rights Commission’s appointment of a second Chief Executive is just the latest example of a taxpayer-funded bureaucracy serving itself at the expense of delivery for New Zealanders. Julia Amua Whaipooti comes direct from left-wing criminal justice reform group JustSpeak, where she
Hon Erica Stanford Minister of Education The Government is committed to lifting school achievement in the basics and that starts with removing distractions so young people can focus on their learning, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. The 2022 PISA results released this week found that Kiwi kids ranked 5th in
Labour has developed a habit of making grandiose election promises with almost no ability to deliver on any of them. Think Kiwibuild and Light Rail to the Airport as examples. During the election Labour attacked National over their transport policies while they were sitting on a Treasury report that lambasted
Dear Editor Seeing Debbie Ngarewa-Packer of Te Pati Maori claim, across various news channels, that “We have a government that has insulted and upset at least 20 per cent of the population…” and her party has a “large mandate of Maori” to speak on their behalf against the new
Sunday the 3rd was interesting for several reasons. When I wrote this, the four dumbest criminals in New Zealand had just ram raided a bakery and vape stores in east Auckland. You may think there is nothing particularly unusual about that in the rubble of a welfare-sated socialist society,
By popular request here is the much talked about speech by new National MP James Meager. New National MP James Meager: “Members opposite do not own Maori. Members opposite do not own the poor. Members opposite do not own the workers. No party and no ideology has a right to
My questions for the media and political journalists in particular are as follows: If your incestuous relationship with the Labour Party was the correct one, in the sense that we the public should have followed all the journalists’ infantile utterances, why wasn’t Labour re-elected? If your journalists are
Brian Tamaki “We will not tolerate Palestine/Hamas sympathisers in this great nation of New Zealand. We will not tolerate anti-semitic behaviour in New Zealand. New Zealand needs to take a hard line with both. This is not who we are! Hamas are terrorists. They have committed war crimes
