The Government is forging ahead with an ideological vanity project, in the form of a cycle bridge over Waitemata harbour, at the expense of the day-to-day maintenance of local roads and state highways across the country, National’s Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. New Zealand’s councils are
New Zealanders were promised that they would be at the ‘front of the queue’ but the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out continues to be behind schedule and poorly communicated, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “This was meant to be the ‘Year of the Vaccine’ but just
It’s funny, isn’t it? The more that certain leftists insist that they aren’t anti-Semites, the more they keep re-tweeting and hanging out online with, well, anti-Semitic terrorists. New Zealand politicians who are adamant they’re not anti-Semites, by some strange coincidence, can be
Dear Editor Did readers note TVNZ’s blatant effort the other evening to attach more ‘white privilege’ onto the government’s official apology for the 1970s Pasifika dawn raids? TVNZ’s longtime puppet to the socialists, announcer Simon Dallow, said: “And most of the overstayers at the time were from
Dear Editor I am going to be sitting by my phone most of the day expecting a call from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, after her apology to people who were in this country illegally. I was born left-handed and in my first years at school was strapped daily for
David Seymour ACT Leader The Reserve Bank printed $100 billion, the Government borrowed $60 billion – we’ve got an economy that’s running on a sugar hit. The Government has been focused on all manner of initiatives, from bike bridges to public holidays, and paying people more to stay home,
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Darroch Ball Co-leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust. Apparently, Newshub had the jump on everybody this week when they ‘revealed’ statistics that showed a massive increase in the number of inmates bashing corrections officers. The problem is that the numbers and data they reported on showing the dramatic increase are
David Seymour ACT Leader After saying we would be at the front of the queue, New Zealand is now officially last in the OECD for the vaccine rollout. According to ‘Our World in Data’, New Zealand has fewer vaccinations per person than any other country. DHBs have now been told
As we are aware, this is a government devoid of talent. Business experience is as scarce as hen’s teeth, and as a result of their ignorance, they are not business-friendly. Community work or similar is not a qualification for the rigours of government, certainly not at ministerial level.
Neville Dodd President Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. After what has been described as a knee jerk reaction to the March 2019 massacre, it is now clear New Zealand’s legal gun owners were not and are not the problem. It is social media that the authorities should
The first time I heard the suggestion that Wellington City Council might start imposing congestion taxes in the CBD was just after the 2013 local body elections, when Chris Laidlaw famously put the idea to council. I thought at the time that it was an outrageous idea; after all, they
Deanna Kloosterboer voiceforlife.org.nz The incident reported here recently took place in New Zealand – the exact date and some names have been withheld to protect privacy. Voice for Life has been made aware of a recent case involving a healthy New Zealand infant who was born alive after an
Introducing debt-to-income limits won’t do anything to address the supply problem that is fuelling the country’s housing shortage, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “This is more tinkering around the edges from Labour, which should be prioritising initiatives that will actually get more houses built.
When in Opposition, Labour banged on about a housing crisis and promised that their policies were the only possible solution to fix it. Housing certainly hurt National. Since then however Labour’s policies have had the opposite effect on housing, and the crisis just deepens: New figures released by the
