Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson The Rural Communities Minister yesterday showed how fraught the Government’s land grab on Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) is. Private property rights are under threat thanks to the Government’s directive to councils to identify and manage SNAs. At the moment if someone’s
New Zealand’s mainstream media won’t do it, so it’s up to the remaining independent-minded Australian media to hold a well-deserved blowtorch to the Ardern government. First, Australia’s 60 Minutes has already given the prime minister an unexpected dose of tough questioning on China. Now,
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
Paula Bennett is obviously suffering from attention deficit disorder. She has burst into the media with a wee sook about how she thinks she was badly treated by Todd Muller when he axed her and ended Simon Bridges‘ leadership: Former National MP Paula Bennett has spilled the beans on her
Nick Smith’s Full Speech: Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Last month I saw this quirky cafe sign that appealed to my nerdiness – that 31 years equates to a billion seconds. Bar a few thousand, it’s been a blast and an enormous privilege to be part of
Dr Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. One of the most important, and scathing, critiques of Jacinda Ardern’s Government was published this week
Israel Institute of New Zealand As you know, we’ve been drawing attention to the issue of New Zealand funding hate for years – see a timeline at israelinstitute.nz/2021/01/a-timeline-of-new-zealand-funding-hate/ Despite decades of evidence we put to them, in November 2020, MFAT
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson The Government is showing arrogance and hypocrisy when it comes to the timeframe for rolling out its so-called ‘Healthy Homes Standards. The Government has set a standard for private landlords to comply by 1 July this year. But when it comes to state
The Government is more focused on shuffling deckchairs than the critical health workforce shortage all DHBs are facing, National’s Associate Health spokesperson Simon Watts says. “New Zealand has a growing workforce shortage in our health system, some estimate it to be about 3500 workers across DHBs alone. As a
Dear Editor I watched with great interest Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defend the building of this bridge in Parliament. Where did she get the figures on who will use this bridge from? Did she pluck them out of thin air? She obviously doesn’t drive around Auckland with her eyes
Perry Trotter Israel Institute of New Zealand The war is over. And yet it isn’t. For now, there is quiet, but few things are more predictable than that there will be another salvo issuing from the Gaza Strip. As I write, civilians on both sides are likely grateful for
Robin Grieve farmcarbon.co.nz “The Climate Commission final report unfairly calls for the pricing of agricultural livestock emissions. “Pricing livestock emissions is grossly unfair and unjustified” Robin Grieve Chairman of Pastural Farming Climate Research said today. The Climate Commission in its final report is calling on farmers to be
Investing in Te Reo television didn’t result in more people learning the language or even wanting to, and I cannot tell you how happy this makes me! Not the waste of money, you understand, nor that I discourage learning Te Reo, because I don’t. I simply object to
