Six months into the top job have seen Chris Hipkins’ cabinet ministers drop like flies. Before his appointment was announced on 21 January the three cabinet ministers touted for the top job were Hipkins, Woods and Allan and now Hipkins is the last man standing. Before two months had passed
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com On and on the political commentators go, babbling sheer nonsense about the bloody polls. They shouldn’t need me to tell them; the polls do not work with politics anymore and haven’t done since the turmoil after-effect of Rogernomics which threw our hitherto
Kiri Allan’s career is finally over. Yesterday she announced that she was not standing at the next election, and was bowing out of politics. This was the sensible and right decision to make. However there is something very whiffy about how this has all been handled. Firstly there are
Rt. Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Convention Sunday 23rd 2023 Mt Smart Stadium Speech Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you for being here, at New Zealand First’s campaign launch. 81 days before Election Day, 69 days before Early Voting begins and 64 days before Overseas Voting starts, we meet
Aaron Ironside Say Nope To Dope Spokesperson commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room I will never forget the day I was announced as the Say Nope to Dope spokesperson. Within hours of the press release being sent to media, I received an anonymous call from
Does scamming apply in politics? The Covid scam is a prime example. We were required to believe what we were being told, and obliged to act in a way that benefitted the government (the scammers). Many of us have been left with empty wallets, our employment stolen awaybecause we did
At the 2020 election the Greens proposed a wealth tax. I remember being horrified that, if Labour needed the Greens to govern, they might make the introduction of a wealth tax one of their bottom lines. While we had often discussed a capital gains tax, this was the first time
Patrick Fahy Chairman Natural Health Alliance naturalhealthalliance.co.nz * Government legislates in favour of Big Pharma and the industrial medical complex. * Therapeutic Products Act is a barrier to consumers’ health interests. * New law illustrative of Labour-Green ideology to increase government bureaucracy. The Therapeutic Products Act, passed this week by
And so the Ardern/Hipkins regime loses yet another minister, this time in a drunken road-side car crash, ending the political career of Justice Minister Kiritapu Allan. It seems a rather too perfect metaphor for a government that promised so much and delivered so little. A dent in the
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Kiri Allan has resigned as Justice Minister, after being taken into police custody on Sunday night. In a statement, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins confirmed she was charged with reckless driving and resisting arrest. Allan resigned as a minister in the early hours of Monday. She was released from police custody
Good gig, if you can get it: yes! $6,328,804.00 of your money, lifted directly from your wallets, to pour into Stuff’s coffers for the Public Interest Journalism Fund. Put another way: more than 11 per cent of the entire PIJF ‘funding’ to one company: the company
Duncan Greive, on 14 June 2023, attended a political meeting with Grey Power and NZ First and said: To make it back into Parliament, he (Winston Peters) will likely need to find a way to turn their fury into votes. Greive, the founder of the left-wing The Spinoff, was
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager
