There is, unsurprisingly, a stark difference between the left and the right of our Parliament when it comes to MPs who have had any real experience in the world of business. The Labour Party might have had a landslide in the number of votes cast their way in the election
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” That of course was infamously said by Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda in Hitler’s Third Reich. He understood the power of indoctrination – that convincing the
Q: How many people work at your local council? A: About a third of them. This was told to me as a joke, but I did a statistical analysis of productive outputs versus wage costs and it is a pretty accurate estimate. I know a lot of council staff who
The High Court has ruled in favour of Hauraki Coromandel Climate Action Inc (HCCA) which sought a judicial review of the decision of the Thames-Coromandel District Council (TCDC) to refuse to sign the Local Government Leaders Climate Declaration. The Court has ruled that TCDC’s decision was unlawful and
Judith Collins is somewhat of an enigma for most voters. The media love to hate her, and a cursory look at their Twitter feeds tells you much. It’s quite difficult for people to grasp what and who Collins represents when media coverage is limited, slanted or negative. I have
ACT Party “Labour’s failure to ease the housing crisis is creating a new aristocracy,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The national median house price hit $749,000 in November, 41.3 percent higher than when Labour took office. “This is the greatest transfer of wealth from poor to rich
The PM has given Andrew Little the dubious role of implementing the recommendations set out in the Royal Commission Report into the Christchurch massacre. The recommendation regarding hate speech is found in Section 8 paragraph 4 of the report. “Hate speech is a less precise term. In this report we
ACT Party “News that a travel bubble with Australia won’t happen until well into next year is a sad but not surprising indictment on the approach Jacinda Ardern has taken to the issue since it was first mooted,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Jacinda Ardern is a can’t
The real cost of Speaker Trevor Mallard’s ill-founded smearing of an innocent man has cost taxpayers dearly, $333,000 dearly. Worse still, he finagled the system in order to have the taxpayer foot the substantial legal bills for his serious defamation of an innocent man. Previously he would
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com As I sit down in the mornings, sipping my fix of Brazilian coffee from afar, I see a repetitive loop playing out in the New Zealand media posts on my news feed. Like some horror scene in a B grade movie being played over
Victimhood is a powerful tool which has long been harnessed by the left, both to garner support and to drive its agenda forward. The victim mentality is an acquired personality trait in which a person tends to recognize or consider him or herself a victim of circumstances caused by others
Royal Commission into terrorist attack Chris Trotter: The Royal Commission’s recommendations on hate speech will unite the right Paul Moon (Stuff): Silencing ‘disharmonious speech’ will not be golden Peter Dunne: NZ’s membership of the Five Eyes club contributed to the intelligence failures of the Christchurch terrorist attack Thomas
