Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. Since Labour took office in 2017 crime has increased at a rapid pace. New Zealanders across the country do not feel as safe as they once did, and front-line police are under immense pressure as crimes not only
Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Karl du Fresne is a freelance journalist and blogger living in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. Three days ago I heard Christopher Luxon being interviewed by Mani Dunlop on Morning Report. It was profoundly depressing. Dunlop introduced the item by saying that with
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
General I believe that work gives people something welfare never can. It’s a sense of self-worth and mastery. The deep truth is that work is the fundamental source of our dignity. Work is where we build character. Work is where we create value with our lives. Some don’
NZTA have revealed the roads it wants to reduce speed limits on after deciding the current levels are unsafe. It’s most State Highways. Potholes? Emissions? Making public transport look feasible? There are a lot of concerns: for example, the logistics and extra costs for transport companies that will negatively
dailytelegraph.co.nz THE LATEST DATA ON FARM SALES HAS SHOWN A FURTHER SLUMP IN VOLUMES AND A DROP IN PRICES, ACCORDING TO THE REAL ESTATE INSTITUTE OF NEW ZEALAND’S RURAL MARKET STATISTICS. There were only 171 farm sales in the three months ended September 2022, down 17.8
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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. Information Opinion The fourth year of
Brian Tamaki President of Freedoms New Zealand umbrella party Information Opinion Now more than ever, this country needs to be united, not divided. Since the great depression, the state of this nation has never been so critical. Yet much of what politicians are enacting is dividing our nation. While this
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura The spectacular demise of past UK Prime Minister Liz Truss is symptomatic of the instability in the UK and Europe. There has been a notable swing to the right in recent European elections, with the mainstream media apoplectic that right-leaning Giorgia Meloni and her
Dear Editor The ruinous fabrications of the Ardern government show our political structure to be woefully lacking in counter-means for control and constraint. Debt has skyrocketed beyond rational, serviceable levels – we’re all but maxed-out. Race relations, societal deterioration and crime are off the charts. Health, in total
Information Opinion Opinion pollsters when conducting focus groups try to encapsulate the opinions of everybody taking part into a simple sentence: often not the easiest thing to achieve, but if you can, the results can be devastating. The most amusing example of this was across the Tasman in 2004. The
On Friday, the draft report He mata whariki, he matawhanui, detailing significant changes to local government, was released. The report was initiated 18 months ago by Minister of Local Government Nanaia Mahuta. The report includes 29 recommendations, including: * lowering the voting age to 16 * including mana whenua appointees as well
Wayne Brown is saying what everyone else, bar the looney left, has been thinking for some considerable time. The Auckland Super City was a good concept at the start but, after four terms of Labour aligned Mayors, it has become more broken than Humpty Dumpty. Brown has called for a
Information Opinion As I have mentioned on numerous occasions to you, dear reader, I am a great student of Macchiavelli. His “rules” set out in The Prince are like Adam Smith’s rules in The Wealth Of Nations: absolutes which you ignore at your peril. Just as 2+2=4
Louise M Diack kiwi-chronicle.ghost.io Information Opinion A New York Supreme Court has ordered all employees fired for refusing the jab to be reinstated with backpay, calling the mandates “arbitrary and capricious.” Weaknesses in Human Rights legislation need to be fixed, everywhere, so this never happens again. In
