Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson Thank goodness the FBI is cracking down on New Zealand gangs since our Government has gone soft on them. It took a major international operation to lead to 25 arrests and 900 charges. Operation Trojan Shield was led by the FBI and co-ordinated
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust A parliamentary petition has been started gaining support to stop courts from using home detention or sentence discounts for serious and violent offences against children. “New Zealand’s justice system has completely lost its compass now seeing regular cases of serious child
ACT Party Free Press The Haps The CCP’s outlook is deteriorating. The Wuhan lab leak investigation seems pointless, but it will cast them as a global pariah. Sinovac has failed. Chinese fertility is 1.3 but the CCP is pointlessly allowing a third child. Our government has hosed money
Ro Edge NZ Spokesperson Save Women’s Sport Australasia A petition is asking MPs to make Sport New Zealand consult with sporting associations, clubs and stakeholders on its draft guidelines that would see biological men play in women’s sport. Save Women’s Sport New Zealand spokeswoman Ro Edge says
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Ruth Dyson recieves a gong for her services to disabled people. Good Lord. The minister who forced the minimum wage on sheltered workshops in 2005. She was warned about the effect but bullocked on. Here’s a report from my local paper (when it was
Bernard Orsman takes a break from his stint of reporting in glowing terms every utterance from Phil Goff and instead highlights Labour’s ongoing mendacity with transport promises…without actually saying as much. A new cycle and walking bridge across the Waitemata Harbour estimated to cost $685 million has sparked
Matthew Tukaki is a Maori activist who uses divisive rhetoric. He is a polarising figure who is agitating for Maori separatism and apartheid in New Zealand, fomenting racial discord while accusing those who oppose his agenda of being the ones causing a racial divide. While he is quick to accuse
Ro Edge NZ Spokesperson Save Women’s Sport Australasia Former Olympic champions and New Zealand representative athletes are calling on the Government to extend and widen Sport New Zealand’s consultation on the participation of transgender athletes in sport. The group of 43 athletes include former Olympians Barbara Kendall, Lorraine
The New Zealand Transport Agency, rebranded as Waka Kotahi, is using our taxes to mess up our streets without public consultation. A fund of nearly $30 million is being given to councils to come up with crazy changes to city roads, such as painting polka dots in the middle of
Dear Editor I live in Greenlane and watched as the Auckland Council took perfectly usable footpaths and turned them into cycle lanes. These footpaths were used daily by walkers walking to and from Cornwall Park. They were also shared together with cyclists who respected each other’s right to use
Hobson’s Pledge Trust Will Tikanga law, that a High Court justice cited in a coastal area ruling, include inter-tribal warfare, cannibalism, slavery, and other primitive customs, or will it just be a modern version, historian Dr John Robinson asked this week. Dr Robinson, who wrote Dividing the nation:
New Zealand is badly in need of a government that understands good decision making and the economic consequences of those decisions. We have not had one since late 2017. The current lot of reprobates are 69 individuals, playing at being in charge and having no idea of how to go
Labour has announced a need for a $120-185 billion programme over thirty years to fix the country’s water infrastructure. This is a crippling amount of money. To put it in perspective, the total income tax paid in 2019-20 was $37 billion. It is fundamentally the result of
You know when Andrew Little is feeling trapped by a more superior mind than his when he lashes out, makes personal attacks and gets red-faced to deflect from the issues at hand. That had been his modus operandi throughout Labour’s first term when (now retiring) National MP Nick
Andrea Vance has cast aside the spin and given us all a glimpse behind the scenes of what actually occurs in the Never Never Land that Jacinda Ardern and her army of spin doctors have created and declared is the most open and transparent government ever: From the moment she
