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Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has done nothing to prioritise the wellbeing of frontline corrections officers facing an increasing number of assaults from prisoners, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Under Mr Davis’ watch prisoner assaults on corrections officers have increased by 92 per cent. The Minister’s response to
The Taxpayers’ Union have noticed that the only way to get the Prime Minister to do anything is to get a child to write to her. We agree and have taken on a new volunteer to help our readers to get their concerns read by the Prime Minister. Send your
Tim Anderson is a hard-left academic. Naturally, Anderson is fervently opposed to Israel. Equally naturally, Anderson found a long-time academic home at the far-left University of Sydney. USyd has an unenviable reputation for left-wing anti-Semitism. Another USyd academic was filmed at a “protest”, screaming abuse
In what must be a truly galling plot twist for the left, their most hated Goldstein is being held up as a model for the world. No, not the hard border, turn-back policy that Europe has been urged to follow (and which would serve the US equally well), but
A parliamentary inquiry would finally give a voice to the desperate migrants who feel unheard and ignored by Jacinda Ardern and her Government, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. National is calling for Parliament’s Education and Workforce Select Committee to open an inquiry into the migrant issues created
Free Press ACT Party There’s something blowing in the wind, and it’s not friendly to the Government. Two weeks ago they were in trouble over Australian travel. There’s just no way to explain why quarantine-free travel has been one-way for so long. Why are we
rt.com A video showing London police stopping a Good Friday service at a Catholic church and warning parishioners to go home or face arrest due to Covid restrictions has provoked outrage from worshippers both at home and abroad. The footage, which was filmed at the Christ the King Polish
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today the Government will try its usual trope that ‘we’ve all worked really hard, and Australian travel is a reward for our sacrifice,’ but the public should look right through them,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “A Government that treated New Zealanders like
Tom Mullen Tom Mullen is the author of Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? and A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America. One year after Americans were ordered to close down society
5th April 2021 Following on from the report about Russia’s incursions into Myanmar’s domestic affairs, there is a local view from the Irrawaddy which is worth a read. The presence of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Vasilyevich Fomin, dressed in his full colonel-general uniform, at the Armed
5th April 2021 Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Alexander Fomin paid a visit to Nay Pyi Taw on Army day and met with the coup leaders, saying Moscow was “committed to a strategy aimed at bolstering relations between the two countries.” Russia has been Myanmar’s second-largest source of
Joe Biden, current (acting) President of the United States, for the first time in the history of the USA, has publicly called for an economic boycott of a member State of the Union because the properly elected legislature of that state, following proper, constitutionally legal and appropriate democratic procedures, passed
A lot has happened over the last year, explanations are scarce and credible summations as to what, why and when are unbelievably hard to come by. As Winston Churchill once said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”. The cynicism shown by world leaders throughout this crisis knows no
Mong Palatino Regional Editor for Southeast Asia globalvoices.org Activist and former two-term member of the Philippine House of Representatives. Blogging since 2004 at mongster’s nest. Joined Global Voices in 2006. A campaign named “Raise Three Fingers” has been mobilizing artists around the world to show support for
