We’re focused on the issues that matter to Kiwis. Catch up on the latest in politics with our Week in Review below. * Labour adopts National policy at the border * Emergency Housing costs up to half a billion dollars * Health reforms about ideology over delivery * Time to take the guns
Nanaia Mahuta, New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, has set the cat among the pigeons in the Five Eyes group. They want to scratch her eyes out over this. She borrowed the title of a book by Manying Ip from 2009 called “The Dragon and the Taniwha” and wove it into
The Government’s focus on hitting legal firearms owners with more costs and regulations has meant those keen to participate in the Roar and duck shooting season may miss out. Opening weekend of duck shooting season is just around the corner and the Roar is drawing to a close but
Tom Secker rt.com Tom Secker, a British-based investigative journalist, author and podcaster. You can follow his work via his Spy Culture site and his podcast ClandesTime. Amazon’s forthcoming Tolkien production is anticipated to be the priciest TV show ever made, with the retail and streaming giant spending
A discussion is very much needed of both Nanaia Mahuta’s speech and New Zealand’s participation in Five Eyes. There has been considerable commentary from politicians and those in the media, some a little surprising. Two factors are at play here. One is the responsibility incurred when a country,
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
My father always used to think that everyone in New Zealand wore grass skirts and threw spears. He wasn’t joking. That was the view often presented to the world when royalty or dignitaries came here. He had a clear memory of the Prince and Princess of Wales in a
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “ACT’s petition to protect the free speech of New Zealanders and oppose the Government’s proposed hate speech laws on Saturday reached 10,000 signatures,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “Our ACT caucus has been travelling the country with our Free Speech Tour.
ACT Party ACT’s Fair Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Thousands of New Zealand shooters could still miss out on duck shooting season because of unacceptable delays in processing firearms licencing applications,” says ACT’s Fair Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Police put out a press release this
Lindsay Mitchell bassettbrashandhide.com Child poverty stats are a joke. If adults get collectively poorer, children get richer. Never has this been better illustrated than by a just-announced Stats NZ cock-up. Treasury, “…identified several respondents incorrectly reporting the superannuation payments they received, resulting in double counting their income
George Orwell’s prophecies are coming true. Little by little our freedoms are being eroded by technology and by a government willing to use that technology to track your every movement: Currently, electric vehicles are exempt from road-user charges, and do not pay fuel tax. If that exemption were
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