Everything about politics
Saturday, 1 May 2020. Stuff’s front page, “Most popular”: Sometime in the ensuing hours: Sinead, Sinead…is that you, it’s Helen, you’re on speaker to Heather, we’re all here, all of us. Sinead; what were you thinking? Get that piece cremated… What do you mean; you
Last week I had occasion to chat with a couple of detectives whom I had had the pleasure of working with back in the day. They were executing a warrant to search a vehicle that had been impounded following a short pursuit after it had managed to get away from
Marama Davidson Green Party Co-leader The Green Party is launching its Reasonable Rents campaign to start a national conversation about the high cost of rents for the more than 1.4 million Kiwis who live in a rental home. “We all deserve a warm, affordable and accessible place to
2nd May 2021 A wanted poster has been put up with a reward of 50 Pyar for the capture of an alleged criminal. There are 100 Pyar to the Kyat and about 1,000 kyat to the NZ dollar. The wanted poster in the southern city of Dawei on May
Karen Chhour ACT’s Social Development spokesperson Carmel Sepuloni seems intent on punishing future generations with her plans to raise benefits by a further $57 a week by 2023. New Zealand is already drowning in debt, it’s not fair a future generation of workers will be lumped with paying
Recently I received an email from the Antique Arms National President, Andrew Edgecombe. In the email, he has a crack at me (Note to Andrew: I don’t use minions) and my messages about the failures of COLFO. I will address his email in this article on the points that
Wendy Geus Judith really set the cat among the pigeons this week when she opposed the separatist health policy proposed by the government, culminating in her well-received keynote speech on Saturday. Good on her: race-based policy is a bad idea. Newshub’s inflammatory response: ‘Judith Collins has hit
Hobson’s Pledge Trust A Government plan to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) intends to establish two governments in New Zealand by 2040, one for Maori and one for everyone else. These two governments would be subject to a monitoring group created by
National Party: “Separatism” and He Puapua Matthew Hooton (Herald): Judith Collins’ speech raises important issues for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (paywalled) Graham Adams (Democracy Project): Ardern in the gun over He Puapua Luke Malpass (Stuff): Judith Collins issues race relations warning, says Labour planning ‘two systems by stealth’ Tracy Watkins
Last Friday’s Face of the Day, Mark Dunajtschik, got me thinking. This is the man building and donating Wellington’s new children’s hospital. Dunajtschik, a property developer of considerable experience, and a philanthropist as well, expressed his surprise that NZTA (Waka Kotahi, which literally translates to ‘One Canoe’
Figures obtained by the National Party show the number of grants to cover emergency or essential payments for benefit recipients have skyrocketed under the Labour Government, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. The total number of Advance Payment of Benefit applications and grants from March 2016
The Police and the government want to implement a gun registry. They say it will make us all safer. Sensible shooters have been telling the government and Police that they can barely manage the existing register and that data security is paramount. A gun registry will simply be too tempting
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson The Greens’ co-leader’s coddling of violent gang members is a kick in the guts for victims of the Mob. Marama Davidson and Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt yesterday spoke at an ‘event for justice’ at the Mongrel Mob’s headquarters. Sharing
