I have a cunning plan. A plan so cunning…well you know how it goes with tails and weasels and so on. I am as guilty as many in being downbeat as to where we find ourselves at present; only yesterday I commented on this forum how depressing I found
Free Press ACT Party The Haps ACT has been busy in the Parliamentary Recess. ACT’s policies to let people get on with building homes, and crack down on gangs have been well received. Meanwhile, the Party’s MPs have been listening to huge crowds up and down the country.
Elizabeth Rata Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Professor Elizabeth Rata, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland My recent article about the role that the concept of a Treaty ‘partnership’ has played in the development of ethno-nationalism provoked a critical response from Professor Andrew Geddis. We
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 In recent years, the Ardern Government has gone heavily over-board with the notion that the Treaty of Waitangi created a partnership between Maori New Zealanders and the
Prime Minister Ardern was at her sneaky, evasive, furtive and frankly, petulant best when she was asked some rather straight-forward questions over her Government’s funding of the Mongrel Mob: She refused to answer a single one of Ryan Bridge’s questions. She showed her petulance when pressed, and
Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities I’m deeply concerned about the future of public interest journalism. The first tranche of Public Interest Journalism Funding has been announced and it’s clear to me that the fund won’t be supporting all
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson ACT would take back control of our streets from organised crime. Gang numbers have grown to more than 8,000, up 50 per cent since the Government came to office. Growing gang numbers will be Labour’s legacy. This is why we need ACT’s
Why on earth has Jacinda Ardern let today’s covered face of the day and her children into New Zealand? She won’t even name the terrorist who committed the Christchurch massacre yet she is welcoming with open arms a woman who was married to an ISIS terrorist who committed
Proposals for NCEA science risk taking our curriculum down a rabbit hole at a time when the Government should be focused on turning around our declining achievement in science, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. The proposals divide science into ‘matauranga putaiao’ (Maori understanding of the natural world) and
Damien Smith ACT Associate Finance spokesperson ACT is today asking for feedback about the anti-money laundering legislation passed by the National Government in 2009. We understand the need to protect New Zealand from criminal activity and that we have international obligations, but since its implementation, there have been regular
David Seymour ACT Leader MIQ is the bottleneck starving the New Zealand economy of the skilled people businesses need to grow and compete. ACT has a plan to expand MIQ places and make it safer than what the Government is doing now. Under ACT’s plan, owners of currently mothballed
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson ACT would cut through the red tape that pushes costs and compliance on to hardworking New Zealanders by tackling the four horsemen of bad regulation. Successive governments have allowed the bureaucracy of the Zero Carbon Act, the Health and Safety at Work Act, the
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Dr James McDowall ACT Immigration spokesperson ACT would dump Labour’s ‘once in a generation’ immigration reset. Immigration reform may be needed in the future, but right now we need certainty. ACT would signal a return to the pre-COVID immigration settings as soon
ACT Party ACT has today released the third in our series of Honest Conversations documents, this one about the economy. “Kiwis want a fair go. If you work hard, you should be rewarded, but under the Labour Government it feels like people are rewarded for doing nothing while hardworking taxpayers
