Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The Labour government is currently fighting on multiple fronts that threaten its popularity in the run-up to
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura This week the Labour government forced their Three Five Waters legislation through parliament under urgency. The bill had come back from the select committee with no substantial changes, the select committee having refused to hear most of the submitters in person, despite the National committee
It’s full steam ahead. National MP Simon Watts sent an email out yesterday saying: The government has been caught sneaking a rarely used, undemocratic legal provision into its Three Waters legislation, in an attempt to make it harder to overturn. This week, while parliament sat under urgency to ram-
Helen Houghton New Conservative Co-Leader nc.org.nz Chronic truancy is not because parents don’t wake up in time to get their children to school as the National leader Christopher Luxon thinks and neither is it the fault of the majority of teachers or school leaders. As the
Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused
Dave Rennie Into their sixth year, the Ardern-led Labour Party have cost so much, taken so long and achieved so little while implementing their version of socialism. Many questions need to be answered, but first, let’s look at socialism and how to form a socialist state, and then
Recently Willie Jackson (MP) addressed a group of 5,000 at a big marae. He shook his fist in the air and proclaimed, When we have control of the water we have total control of Aotearoa. Anthony Willy, (Former) Judge and Law lecturer, wrote We are witnessing a coup designed
Well: she’s done it, as promised. Our nominal prime minister; The Honourable Jacinda Kate Laurel Ardern, promised to ask the ‘drafters’ of the ‘Three Waters’ legislation to ‘clarify’ the alleged mission-creep, scope-enlargement, call it what you will, in the controversial legislation, the stuff she knew nothing at
Jacinda Ardern normally rushes for the costume shop as she seeks to curry favour in the aftermath of a tragedy. But after the cruel slaying of an Indian dairy worker, all of a sudden she seems rather coy about playing dress-ups and rushed off to the Chatham Islands on
We expect that raising the voting age to 16 will be supported by the typical lefty ‘wokes’ as ‘they’ understand how our kids have been brainwashed by the hoards of extreme left leaning school teachers. The support is fuelled in the belief that these 16-year-old children have been
Bad news for Kiwis who love a classic pavlova on Christmas, New Zealand is in for an egg shortage. New egg farming rules coming into force next month and high bird-feed costs are driving huge price increases and rationing of eggs. Newshub The new farming rules have forced small
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com The most recent Radical podcast with UK political commentator Maajid Nawaz featured a group of New Zealanders speaking about the Covid tyranny which has absorbed our lives for almost three years. This is a two hour episode, featuring a range of
Helen Houghton C0-leader New Conservative Party Today’s headline, is anyone surprised? Take away parents’ ability to give consequences for misbehaviour; take away a teacher’s ability to remove unruly students from the classroom; take away a family’s ability to provide for their own; take away our police
“No one gets to lie to me twice”, said Winston, ruling out going with Labour after the election, in an article written by Audrey Young in the Weekend Herald. Winston Peters is without a doubt this country’s consummate politician. He possesses the most accurate antennae sensing where the country
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. The New Zealand Supreme Court has ruled in favour of lowering the voting age to 16. ‘Justice France told the court it was inconsistent with the Bill of Rights to not allow 16-year-olds to vote, and
