PILLAR will now begin engaging with members of parliament, legal experts and civil society organisations with the goal of introducing the proposal to parliament. Nathan Seiuli says the choice facing New Zealand is bigger than social media.
Robert Nola, Michael Corballis and John Werry – have died since the letter was published. But the stand they took alongside their fellow professors Kendall Clements, Dame Elizabeth Rata, Douglas Elliffe and Garth Cooper continues to reverberate in public debate and government policy.
Luxon can keep smacking it around the world if he likes. Meanwhile the rest of New Zealand will be wondering why their government seems more interested in distant billion customers than the struggling families right here at home.
The establishment media will no doubt dredge up every old controversy to paint him as a loose cannon. Ignore the noise. Laws has the skills, the audience and the political nous to make a real difference.
Speculation had been building in recent days that Laws was set for a political comeback.
Opportunity is no longer marooned in the world of one to two per cent. Cross five per cent, and the whole post-election arithmetic changes. Which is why the knives are suddenly out from every direction.
We are subsidising international social engineering projects while failing to maintain basic domestic public services. This represents a troubling lack of oversight that demands immediate public scrutiny.
Most people know how I voted at the last election. I gave my party vote to ACT and my electorate vote to National. Unless something changes dramatically between now and polling day, I can’t see myself doing that again.
Is the cheerleading of expensive eating an appropriate use of TV news time?
Can you trust Chris Hipkins when lies and mistruths utter almost constantly from his mouth? On the accommodation supplement he has executed a full flip from supporter to critic without breaking stride.
The latest foundational assessment data shows the inequity gap in education is widening, not only in maths and writing but also in reading.
In April, IRD noted it had “identified 355,000 unique crypto-asset users in New Zealand, undertaking around 57 million transactions, with a value of $36 billion”.
