NZ Politics
Women’s Rights Get Rebranded
I came across a document ‘WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLES’. This article unpacks its intention, influence and New Zealand law firms who have signed on to the related ‘Gender Equality Charter’.
Sell Air NZ Now: Taxpayers Lose $59 Million While Virtue Signalling Soars
I am with David Seymour on this one. Sell Air NZ. And while we are at it, sell the other distressed state assets such as Radio NZ and TVNZ. The taxpayer has carried these losers long enough.
A Way Forward
Don is reluctant to “kill what we have built up over the last few years” and has suggested that we continue the blog under the title of Brash & Mitchell.
The Sacred Grove, a Fallen Tree and a $560,000 Question
Auckland ratepayers are now more than half a million dollars in, residents are six figures out of pocket, and there is still no clear public explanation of how success will be measured – or when spending will finally stop.
Luxon Bins His Own Reports: The Manager Who Stopped Managing
Our country does not need another middle manager with a PowerPoint. It needs a leader who can fight the real battles. Luxon just proved he is not that man.
Covid-19 Lessons Learned Report Any Day Now
For many featured in The Tribute, this report represents a final hope for official acknowledgement and the restoration of patient rights under the NZ Bill of Rights.
Labour’s State of the Nation: Softer, Smaller, Safer
I went to the Labour Party State of the Nation.
The Future of the Māori Seats
This is an issue National can no longer ignore. It needs to get off the fence and explicitly state whether or not it will support a referendum on the Māori seats.
Luxon Does Find Merit in Treaty Principles
PM echoing Seymour’s views flies under the radar.
Parliament Joins the Virtue Signalling Retreat From X and Abandons Kiwis Who Use It
The liberal elite who control our institutions, the old media and the progressive parties are busy virtue signalling by walking away from X. In the process they walk away from hundreds of thousands of ordinary Kiwis who are right there on the platform.
Face of the Day
On Monday, Hipkins promised a different Labour should they be elected in November, but he was offering up no new policy for now.