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The Labor party in Australia is floundering because it’s forgotten who it is meant to be: but the Liberal party is rapidly following them down the slippery slope of blandness. Labor is facing electoral irrelevance because it’s turned its back on the workers. So is the Liberal party.
ACT Party “Reports that the Cabinet will today rubber stamp the Government buying Fletcher Building out of Ihumatao is a terrible step toward formalising Jacinda Ardern’s worst decision as Prime Minister,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If you own land and someone squats on it, the Prime Minister won’
About thirty years ago, some Greenie bird watchers from Auckland forced tens of thousands of dollars to be spent relocating a nest of birds from in the path of the soon to be built Esmonde Rd on-ramp. They would surely die if they had to live a few metres
Some alarming information has come to hand that despite the clear failures from Police that led to the tragedy at Christchurch, the Police are hell-bent on ramming through further changes that materially, negatively affect licensed firearms owners. Chris Cahill, the Police union mouthpiece, is pushing hard for registration and
It is now apparent that the very person who is supposed to uphold the dignity of Parliament and the safety of those working within its corridors has proven himself to be totally unfit for the position. In my previous article I set out the backgrounds of those MP’s elected
Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Trevor Mallard should never have been appointed as Speaker Barry Soper (Herald): Why House Speaker Trevor Mallard should resign Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): How can Labour preach kindness, yet support Trevor Mallard? Amelia Wade (Herald): Rules quietly changed
Stuff has an a article outlining just how badly Police are letting down Licensed Firearm Owners with their approach to licensing and re-licensing: Firearms licence applicants are growing increasingly frustrated as police muddle through 10,000 outstanding applications, some dating as far back as November 2015. The issue comes
As the backlash against the Morrison government over its mishandling of the Brereton report grows, the parliamentary gynarchy is swinging into action. The military community are furious that the report, alleging war crimes committed in Afghanistan by Australian Special Forces soldiers, was made public before its allegations were properly investigated.
If you’ve been following the US election you will know that Fox News has committed business suicide. Lou Aguilar from The Spectator explains. Trump broke every other news entity even before he took office in 2017. CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the rest have
John Rofe This week we had the astonishing spectacle of the Speaker, Trevor Mallard, finally coming clean about how much the mistaken use of the term “rape” has cost the NZ taxpayer, after a week or so of prevarication. He is now being taken apart by a cowardly pack of
If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by John Black that was first published 10th November 2020. The Idiocy of Experts The apparent victory of Joe Biden in
It’s not just in New Zealand that ham-fisted, bungling Keystone Kops are screwing up firearms registration – and punishing law-abiding gun owners for the Plod’s own failings. As has been laid bare in recent days, NZ police bungling allowed Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant to amass his armoury
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
