NZ Politics
Treating NZ’s Far Right Groups as Terrorist Organisations Could Make Monitoring Extremists Even Harder
Hayden Crosby University of Auckland Hayden Crosby is a PhD candidate in criminology at the University of Auckland. His research focuses on the far right, primarily in New Zealand and Australia. He is former far right extremist which has given him a great deal of insight, knowledge, and experience that
Daily News Roundup – 19 April 2021
Housing crisis Reuters: ‘Explosion of wealth inequality’ as housing boom leaves many behind – economist Dan Satherley (Newshub): Housing crisis: Price falls coming, but ‘nothing compared to’ how much they’ve risen – economists Miriam Bell (Stuff): What will happen if house prices fall? Tara Shaskey (Stuff): Poverty will cripple Maori if
This Is What Foreign Policy Failure Looks Like
This is what foreign policy failure looks like after New Zealand’s despicable treatment of Fiji under Helen Clark and John Key. Successive foreign ministers, but especially Murray McCully have led to this: Two senior officers of Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) recently received their Masters in Military Science
Radical of the Day
Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March wants immigration officials to stop considering sexual exclusiveness in relationships when processing partnership visas. Newshub In layman’s terms that means that he doesn’t consider an exclusive commitment to each other to be a valid indication of a serious relationship in modern times. Believe
Road to Nowhere: New Zealanders Struggle to Get the Help They Need, 2 Years on from a Funding Boost for Mental Health Services
Dougal Sutherland Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Dougal is a registered Clinical Psychologist with 20 years’ experience working with children, teens, families, adults, and organisations. He has a PhD in Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology, both from the University of Otago. As part of New
Hate Speech Sentence Longer Than Male Assaults Female
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Government’s proposed Hate Speech Laws mean someone could spend longer in jail for having an unpopular opinion than assaulting a child, male assaults female, participating in a riot and common assault,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “A cabinet paper released last week
The Jacinda Government’s Plan to Criminalise People’s Opinions Revealed
Geoffrey Churchman Waikanae watcher waikanaewatch.org On Friday the Newsroom website on this page said it had obtained the Cabinet Paper put forward by Justice Minister Chris Faafoi showing what the Government has in store to “protect” us from so-called ‘hate speech’ and gives some of the intentions. It
Simeon Brown – It’s Time to Take the Guns off the Gangs
With gangs trying to take control of New Zealand’s largest city, it’s time to get tough on organised crime, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. The National Party has launched a petition calling on the Government to introduce Firearm Prohibition Orders (FPOs) immediately. The law change would
Cancelling Christ
Bruce Logan Easter has just passed, but not in New Zealand it would seem. Woke cancel culture and a resurgent paganisation are winning. Holy Week, Palm Sunday until Resurrection Sunday, passed by without most New Zealanders noticing. Indeed an examination of the media in other English-speaking countries would suggest
The NZ Herald Conspiracy Theory about Conspiracy Theories
Strap yourselves in folks and don’t adjust your tin foil hats. David Fisher over at the NZ Herald has let his imagination run wild. According to Fisher (gasp), there is a major security threat in New Zealand. The danger is not Covid-19 or vaccinations to prevent Covid-19.
Dr Shane Reti – DHBs Discharging Elderly in the Middle of the Night
The Government needs to explain why it’s allowing DHBs to discharge our elderly people from hospital in the middle of the night, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. In January alone, 156 patients aged 80 years and older were discharged from hospital between 1 am and 8
I Swear…it Was like This When I Got There
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Graph Illustrates Government’s Failures
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “A Ministry of Health graph drawn by a graphic designer with no data to inform it is the perfect metaphor for this Government, all spin and no substance,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Like most things with this government, they present a nice picture
Bigtime Wakeup Call
Owen Jennings I remember my father talking of surviving during the great 1929 depression. Meals consisted of what they could grow – often a carrot, a spud and an onion. No credit at the local shop. No new clothes, no car, homemade everything. People knocking on doors asking for food and
Too Many Needles in the News
The phrase “mind over matter” actually works in practice. When a problem becomes an obsession, resolution can be found in logically examining the facts and allowing the brain to counter an unpleasant physical reaction. Our brain is a powerful problem-solving tool. Every night since the government began distributing the