China and New Zealand Bryce Edwards (The Guardian): Ardern’s speech was not an attack on China, or even a shift away from Beijing Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): Something for everyone in Ardern’s speech on China Michael Neilson (Herald): Greens, Labour undecided over Uyghur motion calling for declaration of
The Government should be much further down the road towards reconnecting New Zealand with the Pacific Islands than it currently is, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “I’m pleased the Cook Islands travel bubble finally has a start date, but the time it took to figure out quarantine-
The Prime Minister’s continued refusal to state her view on recommendations in the He Puapua report is a worrying sign for the future of the country, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. He Puapua sets out a roadmap to co-governance between the Crown and Maori by 2040.
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust It hardly seems believable that government minister Marama Davidson would attend a ‘gangland get-together’ and have a conversation about how hard done by and picked-on gangs are, says Darroch Ball co-leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “It can now be
Reports the Sir Brian Roche group hasn’t provided any formal advice to the Government in relation to the recent positive Covid-19 cases at the Grand Millennium rightly begs the question, what is the point of the group, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “In answers
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister’s paternalism of the Cook Islands has caused economic and emotional harm to our Pacific neighbours that will take years to fix. ACT was calling for a travel bubble with the Cooks in July last year. Here we are almost a year later
Saturday, 1 May 2020. Stuff’s front page, “Most popular”: Sometime in the ensuing hours: Sinead, Sinead…is that you, it’s Helen, you’re on speaker to Heather, we’re all here, all of us. Sinead; what were you thinking? Get that piece cremated… What do you mean; you
Last week I had occasion to chat with a couple of detectives whom I had had the pleasure of working with back in the day. They were executing a warrant to search a vehicle that had been impounded following a short pursuit after it had managed to get away from
Marama Davidson Green Party Co-leader The Green Party is launching its Reasonable Rents campaign to start a national conversation about the high cost of rents for the more than 1.4 million Kiwis who live in a rental home. “We all deserve a warm, affordable and accessible place to
Karen Chhour ACT’s Social Development spokesperson Carmel Sepuloni seems intent on punishing future generations with her plans to raise benefits by a further $57 a week by 2023. New Zealand is already drowning in debt, it’s not fair a future generation of workers will be lumped with paying
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
Wendy Geus Judith really set the cat among the pigeons this week when she opposed the separatist health policy proposed by the government, culminating in her well-received keynote speech on Saturday. Good on her: race-based policy is a bad idea. Newshub’s inflammatory response: ‘Judith Collins has hit
Hobson’s Pledge Trust A Government plan to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) intends to establish two governments in New Zealand by 2040, one for Maori and one for everyone else. These two governments would be subject to a monitoring group created by
