Brooke van Velden ACT’s Housing spokeswoman Housing Minister Megan Woods has today told Parliament she’s written a $30 million cheque for Ihumatao with taxpayers’ money but has absolutely no idea how it will be spent. I asked the Minister at Select Committee how many houses are projected to
Helen Houghton New Conservative Education Spokesperson We are failing a generation of children in academics when schools are expected to address every social issue of the day. Many educators are fed up with the constant push to deliver more content that addresses sexuality over the critical sliding ranking of our
In a key scene in Almost Famous, legendary music critic Lester Bangs offers the aspiring rock journalist some advice. The rock stars he wants to write about “are not your friends”, no matter how many drinks they buy you. “These are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories.” Fake
Dear Editor If Grant Robertson is the minister for sport and recreation the case for biological males pharmaceutically lowering their testosterone levels to compete against women is a foregone conclusion. Case in point. Hubbard who took female hormones later in life is on the Olympic selection committee for weight lifting
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson It’s no wonder organised crime is running amok with new data showing the gangs are recruiting faster than Police. The number of gang members on the National Gang List has exploded since Labour took office, with 2,663 more people on the list since
Confirmation that a million doses of the Pfizer vaccine coming in July removes the last remaining excuse for the Government’s pathetically slow Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, National Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Government said we would be at the front of the queue, but New
David Seymour ACT Leader Each crossing of the proposed new Auckland cycle bridge will cost $50. I asked Jacinda Ardern yesterday if she would continue to support the cycleway if it cost $10 a crossing. She said she expects there to be 3000 cyclists a day, which would be $12.
I grew up under a barrage of strikes. In 1970s Britain, there was always a strike somewhere – a car plant strike here, a cross-Channel ferry strike in the holiday season. Strikes were as regular and tedious as they were damaging. I studied for my ‘A’ Levels (7th Form Certificate)
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com With hundreds of millions of people now vaccinated against Covid there’s no sensible reason why we can’t open our borders to them. Our tourist industry needs it desperately and so does the nation. Tourism pre-Covid was our major foreign exchange earner. Printing
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In previous articles, we have investigated the brand new app that The Human Rights Commission and The Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand have put together. The first module was an introductory one and contained the usual fallacy of assuming disparities in ethnic outcomes are
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Stuff’s National Correspondent Tony Wall takes a swing at Tauranga: it “seems to have been taken over by an army of white, privileged rednecks who have no
I’m grateful to my former North Shore MP, Hon Wayne Mapp, whose electorate chairman I was for most of his time in Parliament, for reminding me that the remit I suggested in last week’s column here at The BFD was over-complicated by trying to cover too many
You’ve got to hand it to Judith Collins, who yesterday forced Jacinda Ardern to die in a ditch defending the silly bike bridge that her hapless Transport Minister, Michael Wood, dreamed up in a rush. It is smart politics to force the Prime Minister to continually defend the bike
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
David Seymour ACT Leader Nurses will be better off under ACT’s Alternative Budget than they would under the pay increases proposed by the Government. A nurse on the middle pay band would get an additional $2200 from ACT’s proposed tax cuts. That’s a 3.36 per cent
