In my recent posts, I have relentlessly excoriated the Ardern government for its Quisling stupidity regarding China. Lest BFD readers think I’m singling out New Zealand unfairly, I would point out that Australia has been there, too. Australia has learned the hard way from the same mistakes that New
The person who said, “as long as this government doesn’t actually achieve anything, we are safe from their incompetence,” should rethink that statement now the mob of incompetents is messing with our health. Last week a very angry Candace Owens told Tucker Carlson that Joe Biden’s government is
It is becoming increasingly obvious that this government has decided it knows best in virtually every area of governance. It doesn’t matter whether it is health, education, transport, housing, foreign affairs, finance, justice, police, welfare, climate change or any other area; where they have had advice given to them,
PM Jacinda Ardern says we will know ‘hate speech’ when we see it. Whilst her government is very keen to impose hate speech laws on us it is not so keen to define what ‘hate speech’ actually is. The government’s hate speech game is therefore Russian roulette. You spin
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been savaged for sucking up to China and turning her back on the Five Eyes alliance during a historic debate in which British MPs unanimously declared that China is carrying out genocide and crimes against humanity. Newshub Nanaia Mahuta on Wednesday said Aotearoa would continue
As the Australian government is garnering attention and accolades around the world as a middle power nation standing firm against the global bully China, there is no shortage of Beijing’s useful idiots all-too-eager to try and pull the rug from under Canberra’s feet. Some of them
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “A risk-based approach for overseas arrivals is what ACT has been calling for since August last year”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “In ACT’s Response Plan we call for ‘Risk management: it should aim to be a world leader on risk management,
ACT Party ACT’s Local Government spokesperson Simon Court. “The review from Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta completely misses the mark of what is important to ratepayers,” says ACT’s Local Government spokesperson Simon Court. “Our communities want their councils to get back to the basics. Water, rubbish, housing and
A review of local government is timely and necessary but it must not become the latest plank in the Labour Government’s centralisation agenda, National’s Local Government spokesperson Christopher Luxon says. “National supports the Future of Local Government review announced today. “The framework of considering what local government does,
News the Government will move to a risk-based approach for overseas arrivals is welcome but well overdue, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Back in January National proposed precisely this approach and since then we’ve been calling for a traffic light system for MIQ arrivals,
Free Speech Coalition The Free Speech Coalition says that concrete examples of speech the Government intends to criminalize with its hate speech legislation is central to robust debate on the proposals. Spokesperson for the Coalition, Dr David Cumin says, “The Prime Minister has described the type of speech the government
New figures show the multi-million dollars being netted by top-earning emergency motels with the Government expecting this to continue for at least the next few years, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “Emergency Housing should be about getting people back on their feet and into stable housing
The Government shouldn’t be surprised at this news. The sad part is that they are: The median asking price for a rental increased 6 percent in the year to March, new data from Trade Me shows. It’s the highest year-on-year increase since 2018, and the figure
