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The Police are winning over the criminal fratenity one maligned group after the other. First, they stopped doing the catch bit of their previously signalled catch and release programe by ceasing police pursuits. Now they’ve stopped the annual dope harvest thus ensuring that cannabis prices on the street will
Last year, New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade took the extraordinary step of briefing the Minister of Foreign Affairs about hate and incitement to violence being taught in United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) schools partly funded by New Zealand. MFAT waved away
“Another week and New Zealand’s months-long spate of gun crime continues,” says ACT Firearms Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Much of this violent activity is gang-related, using illegal firearms. “The Government simply doesn’t have a plan to address it – only ACT does. “Last week it was arming
Douglas Andrews papundits.wordpress.com A noted researcher points an accusatory finger at Google. Whatever the result of the 2020 presidential election, we can’t say Robert Epstein didn’t warn us. Robert who? you ask. Exactly. Epstein, a Democrat, is also a Harvard-educated behavioural psychologist and the former
ACT Party “Opposition pressure to improve the timeliness of COVID-19 vaccine deliveries is working,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Yesterday’s revelation from COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins that the Government is desperately trying to get its hands on vaccines ahead of schedule to inoculate at-risk border
My fellow Americans: Four years ago, we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country, to renew its spirit, and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens. In short, we embarked on a mission to make America great again — for all Americans. As I conclude my
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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
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
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
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
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
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
