NZ Politics
Wellington City Council’s Dissatisfaction Revealed
Arthur It is incredible. The somnambulant Wellington City Council has noticed something. Well, it has been a long time coming, decades in fact. The Wellington City Council has been served a wake-up call. Actually, in truth, there have been many but this is one of the few they have
Which Principles Should Principals Adopt?
It’s a breeze to write a weekly column when there’s an obvious topic to address. Not so easy when there isn’t; and, worse still, when you’re faced with not one but two deadlines for essays in differing fields. That was my problem this week: a column
Free Speech Is a Freedom, Not a Right
ACT Party Free Speech is as big as all the other problems combined because it’s the key to solving them. We must protect it from so-called hate speech laws the Government is threatening this year. To give them credit, the Government recognizes a real problem. There are too
Ardern Keeps Tiwai Point on Life Support
For a government which has been running around, Chicken Little-style, clucking about a supposed “climate emergency”, the Ardern government seems strangely reluctant to do its bit to stop the sky falling in. Besides exempting agriculture – one of New Zealand’s biggest sources of those scary, scary greenhouse emissions – from
Apartheid New Zealand
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com In the 1980s, many New Zealanders stood proudly against apartheid – the South African system of government which enabled a race-based minority to impose its rule over the majority of the population. It is therefore ironic that many of these same people now support a
Daily News Roundup – 20 January 2021
Housing Henry Cooke (Stuff): Public housing waitlist grows by 1000 in two months to new record high as high rents hit the poor Jason Walls (Herald): The Crown spent $16.5 million in four years on motels for emergency accommodation Sophie Trigger (Herald): Affordable Wellington flats offered through council initiative
Has the Sainted Ashley Blundered?
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Zealand is trailing almost the entire world in Covid vaccinations. The government justifies this on two grounds. First; unlike most other countries we’re not currently facing an infection crisis, thanks to our geographic isolation and small dispersed population. Second; we can afford the
Will Golriz Accuse Lebanon of “Medical Apartheid”?
NZ Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has been accused of “shar[ing] the modern-day blood libel” and peddling “a vicious lie designed to smear the Jewish state” when she accused Israel of deliberately excluding Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. Ghahraman shared on Instagram the claim that Israel
Daily News Roundup – 19 January 2021
Parliament, government, and extremism Chris Trotter (Interest): Trump’s surprisingly large army of New Zealand supporters Jason Walls (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won’t say if she’s backing Chris Liddell for OECD’s top job Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Familiar titles with a new twist Matteo Di Maio (Newsroom)
What Are We Being Softened up for?
Make no mistake, Kiwis are being softened up for another lockdown. As the rest of the world suffers resurgence of the CCP Virus, including new strains of the virus, here in New Zealand we are now so far behind the rest of the world in dealing with the Chinese plague
Daily News Roundup – 18 January 2021
Housing Bernard Hickey (Stuff): The ‘brutal’ catch-22 politics of trying to move to affordable housing Bernard Hickey: Why work when you can just own houses? Miriam Bell (Stuff): Consents are up, but will that help with NZ’s stubborn housing shortage? Miriam Bell (Stuff): New house listings have surged
Magic Talk Regular, Martyn Bradbury, Inciting Insurrection
Martyn Bradbury, who uses the violent nickname “Bomber”, is now using Twitter to incite insurrection. And on his website; In the post content he clearly states that he thinks New Zealand needs insurrection: In New Zealand there are 3 reasons why the people should rise up against the Government and
China’s Human Rights Abuses Must Not Be Ignored
While the UN and its camp-followers, including certain New Zealand politicians, spin groundless conspiracy theories about Israel, the very real and appalling human rights abuses committed by China are passed over without comment. At the UN, China’s lickspittles outnumber countries willing to highlight China’s brutality, two-to-
Collins’ Comments January 2021
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz What happened to hard and early? Why has it taken so long to bring in pre-departure COVID-19 testing for travellers from countries with high rates of COVID-19 infection like the UK and the USA? Now there is the threat of
National and ACT Throw Chris Liddell under the Bus
It was more than disappointing to see both National and ACT reverse their support for Chris Liddell’s OECD nomination. It pains me to be at odds with Judith Collins but for the life of me, I cannot see the sense in castigating a successful fellow Kiwi who is staying