Housing the homeless is big business for the motel owners taking the risk of their property being trashed or small goods stolen along with their reputations when the public discover they might be sleeping next door to relatives and friends of gang members. But business savvy motel owners are making
Nash Acting like a Tourist Rather Than the Tourism Minister After 12 months of neglect our tourism sector needs more than a few hints and ‘maybes’ at what support might come from the Government in the future, National’s Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay says. “Tourism Minister Stuart Nash needs to
The Maori wards legislation may have passed in Parliament, but that doesn’t mean councils have to abandon local democracy. Yesterday RNZ reported that five Whangarei District Councillors are challenging their council’s decision to introduce Maori wards. This needs to happen at councils across the country. The nine councils
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ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “When protestors occupied privately owned land where 480 homes were planned at Ihumatao in Auckland the Police did nothing to protect the owner’s property rights and did everything they could to pander to the protestors, so is that how events will play out
The only way we can fix New Zealand’s appalling school attendance levels is by first knowing the full extent of the problem, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. The Ministry of Education told the Education and Workforce Select Committee that schools were submitting attendance data for all four
In the war that gave birth to ANZAC, Australian and New Zealand soldiers enjoyed a reputation as formidable soldiers. But lately, it seems, our militaries are being asked to be less effective fighting forces than Boy (and Girl) Scouts with guns. At best (and honourably) as a kind of militarised
Cultural Norm Remember when Maori Affairs Minister Peter Sharples flew secretly to New York to give a speech to the United Nations and sign New Zealand up to a declaration on indigenous rights? It was April 19, 2010, just over a decade ago. Little did the New Zealand people then
Housing 1News: Kiwis think Govt not doing enough to address housing crisis as politicians quizzed on how many homes they own Dan Satherley and Emma Turton (Newshub): Housing crisis: Share of homes being sold to people who already own property at record high Julie Anne Genter (Business Desk): Time for
The Green Party appears to be the party for pedos: Nearly 600 child sex offenders will be put back on to the national register after MPs rushed through an urgent, retrospective law change at Parliament. Amendments to the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) Act 2016 were passed
Labour’s lack of solutions to the housing shortage has seen the Government fork out millions in emergency housing grants to some motels and hotels, which are raking it in at the expense of taxpayers. New figures released to National show the ten highest-paid emergency housing providers – a mix
Today’s faces of the day are Knitwits because they are both woolly thinkers. Both are known for spinning yarns and wanting to needle the population. I say that they are very good at pulling the wool over our eyes but others see them as wolves in sheep’s clothing
The Government needs to be honest with the public about which DHBs it plans to scrap, given the pace of these reforms, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “The Labour Government knows that culling DHBs will fare poorly, which may be why it is doing this by stealth.
Today’s GDP result is particularly disappointing because it appears the biggest contributor is the decline in the infrastructure sector, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “According to Stats NZ 2.9 per cent is the largest annual fall ever in GDP for New Zealand. Construction activity has fallen
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Government has run full-page newspapers advertisements saying, “We have secured enough doses of the Pfizer vaccine for everyone 16 years and over…” “Secured!” That’s an ambiguous word which I suggest most folk would not unreasonably interpret in this context as actually possessing
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Auckland was the only one of our four main centres not to have any settlement plan when it first got under way. Instead, a collection of chancers, traders, and escapees from Australia’s penal settlements settled in the scrub around the Waitemata Harbour when it became
