Peter Williams Magic Talk Peter Williams is the host of Magic Talk Mornings, weekdays 9 am -midday. OPINION: I know that on my radio show we sometimes upset and offend people. In return, I cop quite a few insults as well. I’m not bothered. It’s called freedom of
ACT Party Nicole McKee “How on earth is this Government letting known gang members not only hold firearms licences, but letting the number holding them increase, despite the law they just passed having specific provision to remove them,” asks ACT Firearms Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “On 5 January I said
According to One News, Kiwi international relations experts are aghast at the latest trans-Tasman war of words, which they say is proof of different values and a worsening relationship between Wellington and Canberra. Australia’s decision to strip citizenship from a dual Australian-New Zealand national currently detained in
The terms of reference for the inquiry into the riot at Waikeria Prison won’t get to the bottom of why it burned down, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “During Select Committee today Corrections confirmed every single one of the rioters was a gang member. “Given this information,
Covid: General Matthew Hooton (Herald): Jacinda Ardern’s boldest and most adept Covid move yet (paywalled) ODT: Editorial – Trust and politicians in the Covid era Richard Harman: Living with covid Lisette Reymer (Newshub): New Zealand should stop living in fear of COVID-19 – expert Henry Cooke (Stuff): National says move
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is big on virtue signalling, and now that media have taken a look at her Kiwisaver accounts, that virtue signalling makes her look like the world’s biggest hypocrite. While she was criticising Air New Zealand for making a buck servicing engines for the Saudi Navy,
Jacinda Ardern is steadily chipping away at the trans-Tasman alliance. Ardern’s incessant fish-wife scolding of her Australian counterparts might play well to her cronies and lickspittles in the NZ media, but she is relentlessly alienating New Zealand’s most important ally – at the same time that she
Questions to Ministers 1. CHRIS BISHOP to the Minister for COVID-19 Response: Does he stand by all his policies and actions relating to COVID-19? 2. GREG O’CONNOR to the Minister of Finance: What financial support will be available to businesses affected by the COVID-19 alert level
Louis Houlbrooke Campaigns Manager New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi – a former TVNZ reporter – has announced a new $55 million fund that NZ on Air will distribute to media companies for “public interest journalism”. This is scary. Instead of following an Australian or Canadian model of tax credits,
Louis Houlbrooke Campaigns Manager New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Teasers for a new play about New Zealand’s COVID-19 response suggest it will be nothing more than taxpayer-funded propaganda. The play, named “Transmission”, received a $57,000 grant from Creative NZ taxpayers, and according to its co-director Miranda
Information Satire I, your intrepid eyewitness, usually have no problem with dreams during the night hours. My normal practice is for my head to hit the pillow, a few vague thoughts of improvements to my fly spy device to flit through my mind, and then to be swallowed up in
Family First New Zealand familyfirst.org.nz Official advice to the Minister and Associate Minister of Health regarding ‘conversion therapy’ has revealed that a ban is not recommended. Official Information Act requests show that in 2018, Associate Minister of Health and Green MP Julie Anne Genter was advised by the
We have a duty to ourselves and those who will come after us to do whatever we can to put the earliest possible stop to the economic and lifestyle carnage that Dr Rod Carr and his Climate Change Commission (CCC) threaten us with in their recent report. The sheer nonsensical
On almost every ‘culture war’ controversy in New Zealand politics, I find myself feeling deeply frustrated. We live in a pseudo-democratic country. The loci of power and information, purportedly in service to the New Zealand public, are dominated by a class of persons who are ideologically invested in a
