This carve up of boundaries based on “tribal borders” must raise a massive red flag for local ratepayers because a blind man can see this move threatens to shift the balance of power away from the general voting public and hand it over to unelected tribal authorities.
For transers fleeing Trump’s America or homophobic foreign regimes.
The Greens’ data centre policy remains retarded. The reaction to Peters saying so remains hysterical. And Winston remains, as ever, the man who refuses to play along.
Hopkins was born in 1946 and spent most of his working life in and around broadcasting before he entered local government.
Locals packed the Invercargill Workingmen’s Club to hear more about the company’s planned 78,000-square-metre facility at Makarewa. They questioned the complex’s electricity demand, noise, water use and potential infrastructure impacts.
By converting emergency housing into a permanent tribal asset, surely the government has established a questionable precedent?
The garden variety of course. They are packed with, among other things, essential vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre that support overall health. As my wife will be quick to tell you, they are not my favourite food, but she serves them up on a regular basis, bless her. I am
Let’s be clear. Auckland Council doesn’t own council venues. Ratepayers own them. Auckland Council can’t stop people using them without good reason. And having opposing ideological views isn’t one of them.
National doesn’t save us from ‘communism by stealth’. It enables it. Only principled opposition, with enough power to be effective, will lead us back towards personal responsibility and prosperity.
Yet another example of a leader caught flat-footed on basic politics, reaching for safe corporate language when a simple ‘no’ would have done.
Is this where NZ, in 2026, should be?
What we witnessed was a cool, hard political assassination co-ordinated through the National Party aided and abetted by the New Zealand media party.
PILLAR has consistently advocated for a Digital Bill of Rights approach that prioritises parental empowerment, digital literacy, education, targeted enforcement against genuinely illegal content, and privacy-respecting tools over broad government controls.
