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* GONE: Merger of RNZ/TVNZ – RNZ, NZ on Air to get more funding instead. * GONE BUT MIGHT BE BACK POST 2023: Social insurance scheme. Off the table until economy improves. * GONE: Biofuels mandate. * HALTED, MORE WORK: Hate speech legislation. Will be withdrawn and considered by Law Commission.NZ Herald via
Michelle Grattan Professorial Fellow University of Canberra Alcohol bans will be reimposed in Northern Territory communities, in a victory for Anthony Albanese over a reluctant territory government. The federal government will also provide $250 million in extra funding for a range of initiatives in employment, health and other areas. The
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I am writing this piece on Waitangi Day. As I’m retired, it’s the same as any other day to me. Get up, do things, go to bed. The sooner the country rids itself of Waitangi Day in its current form the better off we will be. We cannot
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 Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
For the second time in as many days David Seymour has been banging on about universal rights, trying desperately to pretend like he means it and at the same time trying to fool us into not remembering where he stood on those rights over the past few years. The man
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For the last few days, the Taieri Plains have been sweltering under the most appalling heatwave I can remember. On Thursday the digital clock and temperature thingy in Mosgiel hit 34 degrees, which is the hottest weather I have ever experienced. Our house has been like an oven; sleep has
Here we are into the second month of the new year with an election looming in what will feel like a very short eight months. Whoever would have thought in December, as we were approaching Christmas, that the new year would bring so much change so quickly. With Jacinda Ardern’
February 6th 2023. On the Politics Live BBC TV programme at lunchtime today, Emily Thornberry Labour’s shadow attorney general let slip a comment that shocked me. She either meant something different or didn’t realise what she was saying. She said that the same corporate tax rate should apply
For some time now activists, probably incited by this Labour Government’s skewed ideology that social justice and equality for Maori can only be achieved by overriding the principles of democracy, have been, with increasing regularity and intensity, demanding that “Pakeha accept decolonisation”! To investigate decolonisation, we must first understand
Phil Green * UPDATED I write this the day before Waitangi day, when the nation waits with bated breath to see how the newly minted Prime Minister engages with Maori on the most controversial and divisive manicured lawns in New Zealand. By the time you read this, it’ll be a
Stuart Nash used to be a capable politician but somewhere along the line he became neutered and illogical. Last week he suggested, as the new Police Minister, that the way to stop ram raids was to ban the sale of a legal product from stores: Returning Police Minister Stuart Nash
What is a PM to do when he is trying to distract the public from a stinking turd? He rolls it in sprinkles of course and calls it a dessert. Co-governance could be in for a re-branding from the new Prime Minister. Chris Hipkins met with the Iwi
