Anyone who shies away from public accountability is not to be trusted. If you can’t speak to your behaviour in a public setting then you lack the courage of your convictions. That is not an honourable trait if you are in public office.
Will National and Prime Minister Luxon step up to this challenge? If they don’t, their coalition partners will.
Luxon gets it. He’s pushing for transparency and demanding these former leaders step up and be accountable. Good on him for not letting them slither away.
We are regrouping, redesigning, and we will keep this campaign going. But make no mistake, they will throw everything at us to shut it down.
When Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister dismisses New Zealand’s military as if it has never faced a real enemy, she overlooks the fact that her nation’s very existence is partly built on their legacy.
In a country where public safety is used as the justification for ever-stricter firearms laws on civilians, it’s unacceptable that those granted the highest authority to carry and use firearms face the least scrutiny.
The public has had enough of these vainglorious fools thinking they’re untouchable. Let’s see them squirm under the spotlight they so desperately avoid.
Luxon’s blunder highlights New Zealand’s irrelevance. Our defence is a joke, underfunded by successive governments too busy on social experiments.
Talwar contested the 2022 local government elections and experienced similar instances of vandalism. “[But] not to this extent,” he said. “This year seems particularly nasty.”
Raising taxes will be a hard-sell for Chris Hipkins if all the additional revenue is pledged to funding pay equity.
If scientists condemn without evidence others’ work, they are likely breaching their fundamental responsibility never to treat science as settled and closed to debate. Climate science has become the standout example of this in our generation.
