Owen Jennings bassettbrashandhide.com Owen Jennings is a former ACT MP. Before entering politics, Jennings was a farmer. He was active in New Zealand Federated Farmers, becoming its National President in 1990 and served three years. Prior to this he was National Dairy Section Chairman. A number of critically important
Rose Clark Warning Long read. 1484 words. What does Jacinda’s BS honorary Harvard degree have in common with a game of Bullrush? Let me tell you. When I was at school around 14 or 15 years old a group of us used to have impromptu games of Bullrush either
Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Karl du Fresne, a freelance journalist, is the former editor of The Dominion newspaper. He blogs at karldufresne.blogspot.co.nz. The following piece was originally published in the Spectator Australia on April 16, 2022 My wife and I recently spent two weeks on
In the aftermath of the global pandemic we remain trapped by paranoia and a weird adherence to rules of negligible health value. If we want to reject the ‘new normal’, and revert to the perfectly acceptable ‘old normal’, we must end the paranoia and the rules. I enjoy duelling with
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 Friday morning Jacinda Ardern
Despite spending like a drunken sailor, more than any other Government in history, it has delivered a polling flop for the Labour Party. The 1News/Kantar post-budget poll shows Labour slipping two points. National is steady on 39%, while Labour has fallen by 2 to 35%. The Greens have
Clark said the clear message to supermarket retailers was to be prepared to change quickly to increase competition, and be ready for regulation. “The duopoly needs to change, and we are preparing the necessary legislation to do that.” The Commerce Commission’s report had found supermarkets were making $1 million
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. Following the latest horrendous Texas school shooting our Prime Minister is receiving accolades while visiting the US for her decisive action to ban semi-automatics following our own March 2019 Christchurch massacre. Meanwhile back here in New Zealand our Police Minister Hon Poto
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson The Government’s firearms register won’t prevent gun crime and will cost Kiwis to create it. It was revealed this morning that an Australian software firm being investigated by the Commerce Commission has won a five-year contract to set up the register. Gun
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Warning Long read. 4238 words Deaths Demanding Investigation Deaths extracted from the Citizen’s Database, which offers the following disclaimer: The information in the Citizens Database is a community effort intended to provide general information to the public about deaths temporally
Part 2 I wrote recently about doing the crime and not doing the time. There are no deterrents that are meaningful, especially if the crimes are committed by children: murders, ram-raids, assaults, you name it. It seems we wake every morning to yet more reports of violent crime. This
Alwyn Poole www.innovativeeducation.co.nz www.mthobson.school.nz https://alwynpoole.substack.com/ I could not help following up by contrasting the brilliant freedom of speech masterpiece by Simon O’Connor (thebfd) with the oppressive perspectives of the Green Party. The Greens are not known for having any education
When Grant Robertson admitted that his latest handouts will result in over 80 per cent of New Zealanders now being on some form of government benefit, he said it with an element of pride. It is disgusting to watch this government turn a nation of mostly hard-working, decent people
I want you to consider a certain former member of parliament between 1996 and 2002. He was undistinguished in the House (even by the woeful standards of the first MMP election intake of non-entities), made few speeches (none of any note), asked few questions and managed to lose a
The lawyer for Matthew Tukaki, one of New Zealand’s biggest racists, has hit out at opponents of co-governance by describing them as “the KKK brigade”. I don’t know about you but that makes me very angry indeed with Chris Finlayson. He clearly hasn’t listened to a
