Skip to content

NZ Politics

thunderstorm with dark clouds

The Darkening Clouds of Totalitarianism

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com “Totalitarianism: form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state.” – Encyclopaedia Britannica Under Jacinda Ardern’s stewardship, New Zealand is becoming a totalitarian state. Another giant leap down that

Members Public
Daily News Roundup – 23 April 2021

Daily News Roundup – 23 April 2021

NZ-China-Australia relations Chris Trotter: The Kangaroo encounters the Taniwha Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Speculation Five Eyes will become Four Eyes is completely ridiculous Richard Harman: Mahuta has to defend her Five Eyes comments Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Commentators need to calm down over Five Eyes, NZ

Members Public
Why the Current Path Is Failing Gun Owners

Why the Current Path Is Failing Gun Owners

Yesterday 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

Members Public
Face of the Day

Face of the Day

The Minister of Finance is poised to gain new powers over bank lending, with economists warning the surprise move challenges the Reserve Bank’s independence. […] So far the Government has given little detail about how the powers would be used, other than that the Deposit Takers Bill will propose allowing

Members Public
Labour Wrong to Limit Where Kids Can Go to School

Labour Wrong to Limit Where Kids Can Go to School

Proposed changes to the Education and Training Act 2020 are part of an ongoing attack on school choice by Labour, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Labour is hell-bent on a one-size-fits-all approach to our education system.” The Government is proposing to deprioritise children and

Members Public
How Much Power Is Robertson Trying to Grab Now?
NZ

How Much Power Is Robertson Trying to Grab Now?

The Finance Minister needs to give New Zealanders peace of mind that the new powers he’s proposing to give himself over bank lending won’t over-reach into retail banking, National’s Finance spokesperson Andrew Bayly says. “The Finance Minister needs to reveal the full details of what he’

Members Public
Deposit Insurance Is Moral Hazard Madness

Deposit Insurance Is Moral Hazard Madness

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Government’s deposit insurance scheme is the kind of moral hazard madness that led to the GFC,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is the socialisation of banking. “The Minister of Finance is saying 93 percent of bank customers don’t care about

Members Public
Time to Decolonise the Cook Islands, Jacinda
NZ

Time to Decolonise the Cook Islands, Jacinda

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Jacinda Ardern’s paternalism and colonialism of the Cook Islands has gone too far as she’s stopped it from unilaterally being able to open its border,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “There is no threat to New Zealand, there is no entry point

Members Public
Five Eyes: Ardern in Damage Control Mode

Five Eyes: Ardern in Damage Control Mode

Nobody told me there’d be days like these: strange days, indeed… John Lennon We live in strange times, my friends. Women have penises, men get pregnant and our Australia’s one-time bitterest enemy has become our best friend; while our erstwhile best friend plays Mean Girl and runs

Members Public
A Pre-conference Assessment
NZ

A Pre-conference Assessment

20th April 2021 The abductions continue. Daw Nway Nway Hlaing was abducted from Hpa-An in Karen state today. And still it continues. Shunlei May Shwe a 22-year-old student at Hmawbi Technological University was abducted by the Junta’s security forces. It is thought that the Junta has

Members Public
Labour Makes NZ a Lickspittle of the CCP

Labour Makes NZ a Lickspittle of the CCP

Nanaia Mahuta’s cringeworthy “Taniwha and Dragon” speech has been met with disdain amongst our allies, and pompous gloating from China: China has heaped praise on New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister for expressing discomfort with expanding the scope of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network.[…] Chinese state media have

Members Public