The Press Gallery’s resident granny, Audrey Young, has written a very good piece in the NZ Herald, that was let down by her sub-editor’s headline which doesn’t remotely reflect what is contained in the article: The fact that Judith Collins, who has been such a polarising
The UMR poll deliberately released last week appeared designed to be a hit job on Judith Collins. Most of the press releases carried the headline ‘Unprecedented poll result as David Seymour overtakes National leader Judith Collins in new UMR poll’. According to UMR this was ‘unprecedented’, a statement proved incorrect
Chris Hipkins implies that the jab is not voluntary and that they will hunt for those who haven’t had it in order to give it to them.
Dune author Frank Herbert once said that his most important message was that “Governments make incredibly stupid decisions and lie to protect themselves”. After 18 months of the Chinese virus, no one should doubt that. Australian and New Zealand governments, like so many around the world, panicked and made the
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust With another police officer conducting a routine traffic stop in Hamilton and being shot it is yet another example of the need for our frontline officers to be armed, says Darroch Ball co-leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “This is a clear
Dear Editor I want to talk about hate. And how we articulate it. My sister won’t give me the remote, I hate her. The emotion is transient, almost meaningless, harmless. A criminal murdered a family member, raped my daughter, poisoned my dog: the hate is visceral, dark, and ultimately
David Seymour ACT Leader In an extraordinary interview on Newshub Nation this morning, Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt has demonstrated exactly why the Commission should be abolished. Hunt either refused or was unable to answer any of the questions to put to him. He was defensive of gangs and stood
News that a police officer was shot last night is incredibly concerning and my thoughts are with him and his family. I wish him a speedy recovery, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Our frontline officers put themselves in harm’s way every day in order to keep New
Democracy Action Reading the Government’s press release ‘Social Cohesion Programme To Address Incitement Of Hatred And Discrimination’, which heralds the proposed changes to the so-called ‘hate speech’ legislation, I thought we must be in Wonderland, having joined Alice in falling through the rabbit hole into a fantasy world.
Save us from slick politicians with five minutes’ life experience under their belts suggesting we reconfigure the housing market because they, and others like them, can’t get a foot on the property ladder. If renting is so unsustainable “in this country” (a phrase Swarbrick used several times that I
How convenient, even cynically coincidental, that a UMR poll was released a few days after the somewhat disastrous Roy Morgan poll showing support for Labour had plummeted into the thirties. Given the idiotic announcements from the government over the last few weeks, the result was hardly surprising. Roy Morgan does
Another day and yet another example of the utter failure to deliver on the government’s much-vaunted housing promises: More than three years after the Government launched a huge development for up to 4000 homes on Unitec land to tackle Auckland’s housing crisis head-on, not a single
This week, ACT is up in the polls! ACT has started its Honest Conversations tour and is packing out halls around the country. In Parliament we’ve taken the Government to task on COVID-19, the inaction on housing at Ihumatao and Mark Cameron gave an emotional speech about mental
Thursday in select committee, Director-General Lou Sanson revealed that the Department of Conservation is in talks with the SPCA about establishing a cat curfew and a plan for dealing with feral cats, National’s Environment spokesperson Scott Simpson says. “I noted that DG Sanson pawsed before he admitted that
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. Bruised by its divorce from the European Union, Britain is busy getting out more, making new friends and renewing old acquaintances. Serenaded with promises of
