NZ Politics
Israel Faces Real Security Threats
Pastor Nigel Woodley Ph.D. FOR THE PROTECTION OF ZION TRUST fortheprotectionofzion.com As well as being Chief Advocate for The Protection of Zion Trust, Nigel Woodley is the Senior Pastor of the Flaxmere Christian Fellowship Church in Hastings. He also sits on several faith boards within New Zealand and
Ardern Coup Expected Soon
Information Satire Labour Government Explainer Editor: Rumours of a coup against Jacinda Ardern which have been circulating for months amongst the nation’s journalists have now materialised. According to sources within the Labour Party, there is dissatisfaction about Jacinda Ardern’s handling of everything from Kiwibuild, rent rises, He Puapua
The ‘Eggsploitation’ of Surrogacy – Our Submission to the Law Commission
familyfirst.org.nz The Law Commission is currently reviewing surrogacy laws in New Zealand and Family First has just sent in a submission. You can read it in full here. To clarify, here is how The Law Commission defines Surrogacy: Surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman (the surrogate) agrees
A Defence of Democracy and All Her Operatives
Information This article was submitted to both NZ Herald and The Spinoff. Obviously, it didn’t suit their narrative. “You’ve got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.” Betty Boothroyd, Former Speaker of the House of Commons.
Ardern Out of Touch on COVID
Jacinda Ardern continues to demonstrate her inability to handle the Covid situation in a way that shows an understanding of business, an empathy with those wanting to return home and an admission that both their MIQ booking system and the facilities are dogs. As we got no apology concerning the
James Shaw Is Tone Deaf
The BFD transcript Newstalk ZB Tuesday 21 September Kate Hawkesby speaks to Stuart Smith, National’s Spokesperson for Climate Change Kate: Climate Change Minister James Shaw is wanting to take nine other people with him from Wellington to this year’s climate change talks in Glasgow. Dubbed COP26, it will
What Becomes of the ‘Non-essential’?
Chris Penk First published by The BFD 22th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. What becomes of the “non-essential”? A government whose chief virtue is PR can normally be relied on to have “good
Elimination Has Failed, but the ‘Experts’ Are Still Going for It
The Government’s much vaunted elimination strategy has demonstrably failed, but the idiots in charge still think they can control the virus. Five weeks of level four restrictions have failed to eliminate the virus, but hey, let’s give level three a go! Mike Hosking got right into Ashley Bloomfield
Faces of the Day
This Government is step by step leading desperate business owners down a pre-determined path that will end with our society being divided into the vaxxed and the un-vaxxed. The un-vaxxed will be treated as second class citizens, stripped of many of their basic human rights. Unvaccinated customers
Government Blanked Northland Mayors on Lockdown
Jacinda Ardern’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet consulted Northland’s three Labour MPs but not Northland’s mayors before extending the region’s level 4 lockdown. “This was a contentious lockdown for many Northlanders, especially when Northland had no positive cases and many businesses and communities suffered,
Captain Planet and the First VX
David Seymour ACT Leader Captain Planet James Shaw is taking 14 officials to Glasgow with him, the first XV of climate change. Despite COVID-19 being out of control in Glasgow, Shaw has decided to dive in boots and all. This is not the first time the squad has gone
Wage Subsidy Problems Must Be Sorted
Further reports of confusion about whether businesses are entitled to the wage-subsidy at alert level two shows the Government must urgently improve the scheme, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “Government MPs have sent mixed messages about whether firms are eligible for the wage subsidy
New Zealand Could Be the Big Winner of AUKUS Fallout
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a fluent speaker of German and Arabic.
Government Strategy Rudderless
David Seymour ACT Leader Everything Jacinda Ardern based yesterday’s decision on was true two weeks ago, the only thing that’s changed is politics. Two weeks ago, there were about 20 cases each day, most new cases were within households, but a few new cases popped up to keep
A Demented Dalek Screeching ‘Eliminate…eliminate’
Jacinda Ardern chose to make this pandemic political: of that there is absolutely no doubt. At the very onset, in the first week of March 2020, a group of our senior epidemiologists whose names are all very familiar to us now: Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard, Prof Michael