Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The escalating controversy over Three Waters – and an increasing realisation that the Prime Minister and senior members of Cabinet do not really know what’s going on – is leading New Zealanders to question who is actually running the country. Yesterday’s announcement by House Leader
The latest 1News/Kantar poll, and the last for the year has delivered nothing but bad news for the Ardern regime, inexorably sinking lower and lower with each month. They will start the political year next year well behind National and ACT. National has increased its lead over Labour in
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour’s bumbling approach to crime is continuing to have real consequences for Kiwis. With Epsom and West Auckland resembling Johannesburg this morning during a police helicopter chase after an attempted gunpoint carjacking in Epsom. New Zealanders deserve to feel safe in their communities, somehow
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. There is little doubt that New Zealand is experiencing a monumental crime wave right across the country. Almost every day there are headlines centred around ram-raids, shootings, hit and runs and gang-related incidents which are causing distress
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The Doctor There has been a lot of hand wringing about the unbelievable constitutional overreach of Five Waters. It is so over-the-top that they must be desperate to achieve their goals that they expose their hand so clearly. I’m not talking about the requirement for a 60
Mary Hobbs dailytelegraph.co.nz About where people, with metaphorical masks off, really stand, about heroes and what our true priorities are, our position on issues of basic human rights, on the rights of parents throughout the nation, and also about love, compassion, care and seeking the best possible outcome
Yesterday the Government capitulated and told us that they now wouldn’t be pursuing the entrenchment clauses in their deeply flawed Three Waters legislation. But they are treating voters with contempt, running the line that their propaganda press is lapping up – that it was all some sort of dreadful “mistake”
Yesterday Jack Tame interviewed Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson on the merger of TVNZ and RNZ. The new entity – an “autonomous Crown entity” – will have less independence than the individual entities do in their current forms. Tame questioned whether the merger is a waste of time and money, especially if Kiwis
Dr Guy Hatchard HatchardReport.com GLOBE.GLOBAL 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
Fred Too Several days ago I noticed that Statistics NZ released its September quarterly births and deaths figures on 17 November. Deaths in the year to September 2022 had rocketed to 38,052, up 10 per cent from 34,578 in 2021. Deaths had already risen by six per cent
COVID Plan B covidplanb.co.nz A feature of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the relentless highlighting of cases, hospitalisations and deaths of Covid-19 with very little context to help interpret the statistics. No matter what the mitigating factors, the story of a deathly and fearful virus is
Helen Houghton New Conservative co-leader nc.org.nz There is currently a high-profile case before the courts concerning a young baby needing heart surgery. The parents wish their baby to be given only blood from donors who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. The Crown is looking
Don Brash The last time inflation was over 7 per cent was more than 30 years ago, and I was responsible for doing what Adrian Orr, the current Governor of the Reserve Bank, is trying to do now: get inflation back to the target mandated by the Minister of Finance,
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura In a dangerous turn of events with the Three Five Waters legislation, the government passed a Green Party Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) which entrenched part of the legislation. What this means is: any future legislation to repeal the provision contained in the SOP will need
