Dear Editor I note the PM announced yesterday that petrol/diesel-powered cars will be phased out and replaced by EVs. I wonder if she has considered the environmental impact her decision will have on our planet as the demand for lithium and cobalt increases? Lithium-ion batteries are a
Both ‘Pravda’ One News and ‘Fake’ Newshub did a paid Labour Party hit job on National on Tuesday night by deliberately twisting Paul Goldsmith’s comments on colonisation. The comment he made that overall Maori had benefited from colonisation is incontestably patently correct. Anyone trying to deny that fact is
Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust. Only lefty gang apologists would be surprised by the latest massive bust of drugs, guns, money, and gang members across New Zealand. In fact, in a hilarious move, the explanation coming from the Waikato Mongrel Mob public relations spokesperson for all of these arrests is
Parliament’s social services and community select committee has been used to expose the shonky dealings of Kainga Ora squeezing others out of an inflated property market. Nicola Willis seems to have the goods on this: Kainga Ora is rejecting claims that it is pushing up land prices by “waving
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Private property rights are under threat thanks to the Government’s directive to councils to identify and manage ‘Significant Natural Areas’. Farmers, iwi and many other property owners are concerned that councils can simply rezone and take land. This feeling was evident at a
David Seymour ACT Leader The Climate Commission has run a poor process with its report, with a lack of public consultation and shutting out journalists. It’s imperative we have robust consultation and allow the media to hold the Government accountable, especially at a time where the Government is being
David Seymour ACT Leader The Climate Commission wants the Government to ban and tax its way out of climate change. The report recommends banning vehicles with internal combustion engines, banning new gas connections, reducing herd sizes and increasing taxes through the feebate scheme. If the Government wants to do what’
Today’s final report from the Climate Change Commission still leaves unanswered questions even through there has been some movement from the 70 specific policy recommendations in the draft advice, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “The draft report proposed measures like banning gas connections, which would have
Chris Trotter has got Scott Morrison dancing with the Evangelicals. Would he rather he danced with the devil? Trotter thinks the Book of Revelation has got a lot to do with the Coalition’s foreign policy in standing up to China over various issues like the origin of Covid and
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
Sunday afternoon, a long weekend and time for a bit of net surfing. I fancied I was on a boring exercise but no, I caught an unexpected wave. The wave was rather a tempestuous one in the form of Andrea Vance, a senior journalist with Stuff. It appears her waters
Readers of the The BFD will certainly be more familiar with left-wing blogger Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury than I. Still, his reputation precedes him – and I’m grimly familiar with his type on the Australian left. Yes, we have them, too: the sad old gits who never grew out of
It is with great concern that I write this but I feel compelled to do so, before the subsequent change in hate speech laws. These laws will basically curtail any and all debate over such issues as a report that will, without any consultation with the majority of the voting
Recently I received an email from the Antique Arms National President, Andrew Edgecombe. In the email, he has a crack at me (Note to Andrew: I don’t use minions) and my messages about the failures of COLFO. I will address his email in this article on the points that
The Government still hasn’t delivered any legislation to give police new powers to place Firearm Prohibition Orders against dangerous gang members, despite promising New Zealanders it would do so, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. Police Minister Poto Williams promised last month it would introduce legislation similar to
