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
National Party: “Separatism” and He Puapua Matthew Hooton (Herald): Judith Collins’ speech raises important issues for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (paywalled) Graham Adams (Democracy Project): Ardern in the gun over He Puapua Luke Malpass (Stuff): Judith Collins issues race relations warning, says Labour planning ‘two systems by stealth’ Tracy Watkins
Last Friday’s Face of the Day, Mark Dunajtschik, got me thinking. This is the man building and donating Wellington’s new children’s hospital. Dunajtschik, a property developer of considerable experience, and a philanthropist as well, expressed his surprise that NZTA (Waka Kotahi, which literally translates to ‘One Canoe’
Figures obtained by the National Party show the number of grants to cover emergency or essential payments for benefit recipients have skyrocketed under the Labour Government, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. The total number of Advance Payment of Benefit applications and grants from March 2016
The Police and the government want to implement a gun registry. They say it will make us all safer. Sensible shooters have been telling the government and Police that they can barely manage the existing register and that data security is paramount. A gun registry will simply be too tempting
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson The Greens’ co-leader’s coddling of violent gang members is a kick in the guts for victims of the Mob. Marama Davidson and Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt yesterday spoke at an ‘event for justice’ at the Mongrel Mob’s headquarters. Sharing
The Government has shown its true colours when it comes to gangs, with its Ministers now openly championing them as advocates for justice, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “It’s astonishing that a Government Minister, Marama Davidson, and the Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt accepted an invitation
National is calling on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to reveal where she stands on the report Labour commissioned, which proposes separate Maori authority across multiple layers of government and discusses constitutional change, such as a Maori Parliament. National has obtained a full, unredacted version of He Puapua – a report commissioned
Brooke van Velden ACT’s Deputy Leader Our Wellington bureaucrats could learn a thing or two from Amazon on how to avoid largess, especially when taxpayer money is at stake. Bureaucrats from the Film Commission and Tourism New Zealand weren’t afraid to whip out the taxpayer funded credit card
Eliora Dr Brash, who led the Reserve Bank between 1988 and 2002 before going into politics, said it’s not the Reserve Bank’s job to fix the housing crisis. Newshub 29 April 21 Fixing a housing crisis is not part of the Reserve Bank’s remit. Kiwis have recently
Auckland Transport is threatening to file a police report against the person responsible for spray-painting bright green penises around potholes. Road safety campaigner Geoff Upson has been spray-painting around potholes since 2018, spending about $400 on spray paint each year. Stuff Read the full article here. Comment on
Phillip W. Magness aier.org Phil Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research.He is the author of numerous works on economic history, taxation, economic inequality, the history of slavery, and education policy in the United States. This has been a year of astonishing
Karen Chhour ACT’s spokesperson for Children The Waitangi Tribunal has completely missed the point with its review into Oranga Tamariki. Oranga Tamariki is broken for all children, not just Maori. If we can’t get the current system right, how will creating an independent Maori Transition Authority fix anything?
Good afternoon delegates. It’s an absolute privilege to be speaking to you all here today as your leader. I’d like to acknowledge National Party President Peter Goodfellow, my fellow board members, Sir Jim McLay, my northern colleagues and all of you, the members of the National Party. It
When wartime Australian PM John Curtin announced Australia’s foreign policy reorientation away from Britain and towards America, he did so “More in sorrow than in anger”. What Curtin meant was that it was now obvious that Britain’s war priorities differed from Australia’s. The issue was brought to
Rural communities across the country will lose out under Labour’s radical health restructure, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “National believes our health system should fundamentally be based around need, those who have the greatest need receive the greatest resources. “New Zealand’s rural communities are an
