Labour has failed to ease the minds of parents across the country as it voted down a law change that would have required the Department of Corrections to notify schools of sex offenders placed in their communities, MP for Waimakariri Matt Doocey says. “Too many times we have heard Corrections
A Member’s Bill which would improve access to justice by making it easier for lawyers to do work outside their existing employment has passed its first reading, National List MP based in Hutt South Chris Bishop says. “My proposed legislation makes a small change to allow a lawyer who
Today a tale of two ‘wokestans’, one global and one local, the term ‘wokestan’ indicating a place dominated by woke weirdos and their strange ideas, this time in the financial sphere. First the global wokestan: Read this from our Climate Science Coalition chairman Barry Brill, also a distinguished lawyer and
Dieuwe de Boer rightminds.nz It’s been about a year since I published my one and only bit of commentary on the plague of 2020. I have written many pages about Covid since then, especially during lockdowns, but none made it to print as I tend not to publish
Recently, a friend and I had the good fortune to meet up with someone who had a connection to the National Party. We engaged in a discussion about where National is at the moment and what we thought was needed for the party to progress from this point. What we
Housing: Rental market Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Forget first-home buyers, the metric of success in the housing crisis is rental prices Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): New Zealanders react after Finance Minister Grant Robertson says tenants will ‘go looking elsewhere’ if landlords hike rents Rachel Sadler (Newshub): Housing crisis: Social media users
The National Party is taking the fight to Speaker Trevor Mallard for the absolutely disgraceful manner in which he conducted himself making defamatory remarks that cost a man his career. Yesterday more information came to light that showed that Trevor Mallard, after he knew that his defamatory claims were false,
Watch the Prime Minister smile and grin when asked about Rael Kwasnik’s case, where he has spent almost a week battling to get home from Sydney to see his 87-year-old father Sam, after finding out he had just two days to live: Disgusting. A litany of failures
The Government’s lack of urgency around the trans-Tasman bubble means many companies that deserve to survive are being forced to close, National’s Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay says. “To avoid more tourism businesses closing and more Kiwis out of work, the Government must open a trans-Tasman bubble
Free Press ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden The Government’s housing announcements have been a shock. In this special edition of Free Press, ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden makes sense out of the madness, and sets out what ACT will do about it in the next Government. Today
ACT Party ACT Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “I’m so pleased to welcome another Australian state passing voluntary assisted dying legislation, with last night’s victory for the new law in the Tasmanian Parliament,” says ACT Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Voluntary assisted dying is now legal in Victoria,
Jordan Williams Executive Director New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union This morning, there was an extraordinary development in the Trevor Mallard false rape allegation matter – enough, we think, to justify his resignation as Speaker, and possibly an MP. Here’s Mike Hosking speaking to Judith Collins on the new revelations a few
