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Cultural Norm Remember when Maori Affairs Minister Peter Sharples flew secretly to New York to give a speech to the United Nations and sign New Zealand up to a declaration on indigenous rights? It was April 19, 2010, just over a decade ago. Little did the New Zealand people then
Housing 1News: Kiwis think Govt not doing enough to address housing crisis as politicians quizzed on how many homes they own Dan Satherley and Emma Turton (Newshub): Housing crisis: Share of homes being sold to people who already own property at record high Julie Anne Genter (Business Desk): Time for
The Green Party appears to be the party for pedos: Nearly 600 child sex offenders will be put back on to the national register after MPs rushed through an urgent, retrospective law change at Parliament. Amendments to the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) Act 2016 were passed
Labour’s lack of solutions to the housing shortage has seen the Government fork out millions in emergency housing grants to some motels and hotels, which are raking it in at the expense of taxpayers. New figures released to National show the ten highest-paid emergency housing providers – a mix
Today’s faces of the day are Knitwits because they are both woolly thinkers. Both are known for spinning yarns and wanting to needle the population. I say that they are very good at pulling the wool over our eyes but others see them as wolves in sheep’s clothing
As a teenager in the 1980s, I read Robert Anton Wilson’s and Robert Shea’s brilliantly mad tour-de-farce, Illuminatus! and it’s no exaggeration to say that it blew my adolescent mind. It wasn’t just the sex’n’drugs’n’rock’n’roll (although, let’s
The Government needs to be honest with the public about which DHBs it plans to scrap, given the pace of these reforms, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “The Labour Government knows that culling DHBs will fare poorly, which may be why it is doing this by stealth.
Today’s GDP result is particularly disappointing because it appears the biggest contributor is the decline in the infrastructure sector, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “According to Stats NZ 2.9 per cent is the largest annual fall ever in GDP for New Zealand. Construction activity has fallen
The definition of insanity, it is said, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. On that score, the Australian media can be forgiven their periodic pack-hunts because until now, depending on how Attorney-General Christian Porter’s defamation case against the ABC goes, they’
As Jacinda Ardern showed, COVID panics might have caused global economic havoc and stripped civil rights on a grand scale, but they sure are a sweet vote-winner for the incumbent. Liberty dies, as Padme Amidala sadly observed in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, “with thunderous applause”
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Government has run full-page newspapers advertisements saying, “We have secured enough doses of the Pfizer vaccine for everyone 16 years and over…” “Secured!” That’s an ambiguous word which I suggest most folk would not unreasonably interpret in this context as actually possessing
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Auckland was the only one of our four main centres not to have any settlement plan when it first got under way. Instead, a collection of chancers, traders, and escapees from Australia’s penal settlements settled in the scrub around the Waitemata Harbour when it became
John Robinson waikanaewatch.org We should live together as one people, equal under the law, guided by the recognition and belief that we are one humanity on our shared planet. We do not. Many New Zealanders hold to very different ideas; they think separately, meeting in racially separated hui and
In yesterday’s post, I reflected on the possible future for the long-standing Australia-New Zealand alliance. From colonial times, both countries were regional siblings, notwithstanding the inevitable sibling rivalry. As both countries assumed nationhood, our partnership was almost immediately solidified with a proud history of shared military endeavour.
