Our government has a policy that they are not investing in new roads much anymore because they want people to switch to public transport, walking or cycling instead. This is part of their stated intent to obey the dictates of the IPCC and reduce our CO2 emissions. Prior to the
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Later this week, the Minister of Health is going to announce one more reform of the healthcare system. He had an article in yesterday’s Sunday Star-Times which began with the confident statement that “It’s pretty clear what’s wrong with our health system
NZ-China relations: Mahuta Speech Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation): Without evidence of real progress, NZ’s foreign policy towards China looks increasingly empty Luke Malpass and Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): The taniwha and the dragon: Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta talks China in major speech Audrey Young (Herald): Nanaia Mahuta likens NZ-
Yesterday we published COLFO’s submission on proposed gun regulations. It will be the last time we will publish anything from that organisation. They have capitulated to the Police and Government with their submissions. The single most stupid part of their submission was this one, in response to a Police
PM Jacinda Ardern I’ll try to keep this one short – it’s just a quick note to, once again, say thanks. Just before midnight Sunday night, the trans-Tasman bubble officially opened, and after what has felt like a very long year, family members and friends have again started
Mahuta drew on metaphors heavily to describe New Zealand’s contemporary relationship with China. “When I think about this relationship … I liken it to the respect a taniwha would have for a dragon, and vice versa,” she told the NZ China Council in Wellington. […] “Taniwha are endemic to Aotearoa but
Labour’s celebratory social media posts touting a “record 32,880 people moved into work” are disingenuous and only tell one part of the story, National’s Social Development & Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “What Labour aren’t telling us, is that more people were put on a benefit
National is pleased a solution has finally been found for some of the migrants split from their families after the Government forced them to endure more than a year of distress and uncertainty, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “News that many migrants, including our critical nurses and health
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “ACT welcomes the news that migrant families who have been cruelly separated for far too long will be reunited, but 1500 empty MIQ rooms shows there’s no reason both them and desperately needed workers can’t be here now,” says ACT Leader David
Green Party Dr Elizabeth Kerekere During Waitangi this year the Green Party’s Te Matawaka caucus announced their priority for an independent Maori Health Authority. We have heard the call from Tangata Whenua wanting any authority to be independent, and properly resourced. “For too long Maori have not received the
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Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners Submissions on the proposed new regulations for firearms close in 6 days. If these proposals go ahead, there will be significantly more regulation for dealers, security arrangements for LFOs and increased cost. You can read our final draft submission here. We have
Reading the Weekend Herald, it was hard to find anyone that had a good thing to say about this Labour Government. In fact, I don’t think there was anybody. When one can’t find an article in a newspaper as biased as the NZ Herald favouring the Government, one
Like many Kiwis across New Zealand, we were shocked to find, yet again, that the Government have not been doing their job to keep our border secure. After all the carefully choreographed public reassurances and spin, we find that a border worker went without mandatory testing for six months, 450
Dear Editor I’m a Muriwai local and just wanted to give you a heads up on the council wanting to ban cars on Muriwai beach. There are 3 meetings for public consultation. One was at Waimauku last week. The brown-nosed socialist gnome Phelan Phirre is conducting these meetings
