Is taxpayer money funding advocacy to create a monopoly for a foreign tobacco firm? Why the selective promotion of one company’s tech? And has the MOH stitched up their minister again?
Jones also described the Otago Regional Council as “the Kremlin of the South Island” after a dispute over mine expansion.
The reality is this: it is cruel and callous to incentivise the birth of otherwise unwanted children. And it is a cruel and callous person who produces a child purely for their own monetary gain.
If the country continues down this path, we should not expect peace, prosperity, or social cohesion. We should expect something much darker.
Politically, pouring ‘cold water’ onto challenging issues in New Zealand is common place – be it the recent police scandal or instances of foreign interference. It’s time to sustain conversations.
Luxon might insist it is not a question, but the reality is staring him in the face. National needs a reset and the mutterings in the caucus suggest it could come sooner than he thinks.
It is long past time for a public discussion of the limits of what is actually known about DNA and the risks to human life that are being recklessly hazarded.
Where are the medical professionals supporting the ban on puberty blocker prescription?
For the clinicians and nurses who just want to look after patients, the whole situation is beyond frustrating. They are watching a health system in crisis and, instead of fixing the basics, the leadership seems obsessed with political symbolism.
Geoff has spent years waging a one-man war on crumbling roads, bureaucratic inertia and the maddening gap between what officials promise and what actually gets fixed.
Now is the time for conversation (with or without TPM): it’s time to regroup, not just as Māori but as a people and a nation. Our country is at risk of being lost to foreigners and foreign influence and it has been that way for far too long.
Athletes should be free to play and free to say “no thanks” to political messaging without the threat of cancellation hanging over them.
