Documents released to National show that Police decided to place 160 new police officers in MIQ facilities ignoring requests from leadership within Police to place them in Serious and Organised Crime roles, National’s spokesperson for Police Simeon Brown says. “The Government promised New Zealanders they would fill 700 positions
Hobson’s Pledge Trust Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little’s coastal give-away fast-track looks like yet another step in the progress of the He Puapua plan to set up two governments under a tribal monitoring committee. The other steps are: 1. The abolition of the right of local
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust A petition has been presented at parliament demanding an end to a court’s ability to amend and censor Victim Impact Statements. “Victim Impact Statements should give an ability for victims to speak about the considerable damage the offender’s crimes have
People in emergency housing are entitled to feel safe as are people in the community around emergency housing, National’s Social Development spokesperson Louise Upston says. “The Government has been incredibly cagey about the levels of crime taking place in and around emergency housing, but I am hearing from people
Hobson’s Pledge Trust The expected time to transfer the entire coast of New Zealand to small groups of people with Maori ancestry will reduce from 100 years to 30 years after Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little caved in to pressure from the Waitangi Tribunal. The Tribunal criticised insufficient funding
National is calling on the Labour Government to reopen public consultation on its car tax so the people of New Zealand can have their say, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. The Ministry of Transport carried out consultation on the Government’s “feebate” policy in 2019 before it was
As the ideologues in government announce a reverse Robin Hood tax to encourage EV sales, one has to wonder where they were when the ability to think critically was handed out. Stealing from the poor to subsidise the wealthy into smugmobiles is wrong on so many levels and yet the
Logic, it seems, has never been a strong point of this government. Examples pop up every day to remind us that ‘joined up thinking’ is a completely foreign concept amongst our current ruling elite. Whether it be killing off any chance we had for surety of energy supply, boldly claiming
James Shaw is becoming increasingly grandiloquent as he sabotages New Zealand’s economy with his particular toxic brew of voodoo economics and green charlatanism. His latest statement about CO2 levels is a case in point: Shaw said the last time there was carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the concentrations
Free Press ACT Party The Haps The Climate Change Commission recommends carbon emissions reduce 63 per cent in 14 years, while the economy and population continue to grow, regardless of what happens to emissions in other countries. Meanwhile, in the real world, the lights are kept on by the largest
Over the weekend I wrote about a false claim Police made in a press release, that was also repeated by numerous media outlets, claiming to have seized an “Uzi submachine gun”. I also wrote to Police making legitimate media inquiries: With regards to a Police media statement issued on Friday,
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust The increase in the frequency of firearms being pointed at police should be ringing alarm bells for the government to make a move on arming police before it’s too late, says Darroch Ball co-leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “A person
IINZ israelinstitute.nz The Israel Institute of New Zealand is calling on the New Zealand government to stop funding hate and incitement. Co-director, Dr David Cumin says “A recent EU-funded report has shown what has been clear for decades: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in
The Prime Minister appears hell-bent on implementing her Marxist agenda. Like every other agenda of its type, it is glaringly obvious that it isn’t going to work. Fanciful ideas rarely do. It is over two years to the next election, and if they last that long this government
