Luxon’s China trip was less a diplomatic triumph and more a cringe-worthy display of naïvety. He’s out there kissing butt, signing deals that sound big but mean little and pretending China’s not up to its eyeballs in anti-Western scheming.
The green lobby will howl, the media will amplify their tantrums and the usual suspects will try to paint Jones as some sort of environmental antichrist. But he’s got the facts, the moxie and the mandate to push through.
A scrutiny hearing quickly turned into an opportunity to attack the previous government – particularly former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and former Energy Minister Megan Woods – for banning oil and gas exploration in 2018.
When an ‘explainer’ reads an awful lot like a justification.
Freedom doesn’t float in the stars. It lives down here – under your feet. And it’s time we fought for it.
It’s time we allowed common law to operate so the non-violation of your neighbour’s property rights determines appropriate development.
How race-based excuses, institutional infantilisation, iwi-centric devolution replaced child protection with racial sentimentality – why the state now enforces culture over law.
Since one parliament cannot bind another, the coalition needs to realise it no longer has to prop up a dangerous and highly destabilising law that was promoted by a party that is now openly advancing anarchy.
New Zealand is desperate for someone with guts, vision and a bit of mongrel. Instead, we’re stuck with a has-been who ran away, a CEO who can’t sell and a placeholder who’s out of his depth.
But the latest internal communication has left some RNZ staff stunned, with one worker describing the situation as “absurd”.
By entertaining this motion, the council is making a mockery of its responsibilities and turning a serious international issue into a stage for political theatre.
Why you’re paying for a language almost no one uses – or understands.
