The government is vacillating and prevaricating over mask mandates, with copious column inches being expended in the media hypothesising over whether the government will give us our freedoms back. What everyone forgets is that this ends when there is no longer any social cohesion and compliance, not when the regime
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson ACT has today renewed our calls for a review of who is eligible for ankle bracelets after an 18-year-old received nine months home detention for the rapes of four teenagers. As part of our Real Change: Law and Order paper released last month,
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 has now spent over $1.2bn on housing people in motels and emergency facilities. This
Information Opinion According to NZ Ministry of Health expert Dr Nikki Turner there is “lots of international data showing that the vaccination works really well with pregnant women. It’s got a really good safety profile.” During the NZ Covid-19 vaccine rollout last year one of my daughters was
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Information Opinion Are Maori really that disadvantaged in New Zealand? Hello, it’s All things Political with John Porter on Bay FM. You don’t have to search very hard to find plenty of articles on the net that will quite plainly quote stats saying Maori are very disadvantaged. Here
Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust. In response to the smoke and mirrors ‘Youth Crime Announcement’ from the government, the Act Party has said that these youths need to be on electronic monitoring. Firstly there is nothing new about what Labour have announced – it just ‘expands’ the same old stuff they
Like him or loathe him, Winston Peters has hit precisely the right note when discussing the failure of the mainstream media with Sean Plunket on The Platform. He rightly says, “I’m sorry to say that because in the end whether you like journalists or not, a free media, an
CP Information Opinion We have been advised that our prime minister Jacinda Ardern is to make one of her regular trips to her place of worship, the United Nations in New York, this month. The public will remember her inaugural trip in 2018 when she took along her three-month-
Former Speaker, and soon-to-be ambassador to Ireland, Trevor Mallard’s decision to issue Winston Peters with a trespass notice from Parliament cost taxpayers’ more than $23,000 in legal fees. […] Chris Bishop says this is Mallard’s “final insult to taxpayers'”. “He’s cost the taxpayer another
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The buck stops at the top, and the Prime Minister must explain why her Ministers didn’t fess up about the Government stuff up that put Northland into an eleven-day, $30 million lockdown. The Prime Minister must explain whether she knew what Grant Robertson
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader Jacinda Ardern’s government has shed the ‘kindness’ image and has again shown it is willing to spread misinformation and throw women under the bus to cover its tracks. Once again Labour has been caught out. Chris Hipkins spread misinformation about Charlotte Bellis’ circumstances,
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The RNZ article “Growing anger over use of moko, mataora in image filters: ‘That’s a mockery’ had me wondering, “When is cultural appropriation not cultural appropriation?” To some, easy access to Maori culture has been touted as a positive, a helping lens to the revitalisation of matauranga Maori. But
