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[…] After previously saying the government would not intervene, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed on Friday that no building would take place at Ihumatao while a solution was being sought. A senior member of the iwi, Mr Rankin said he would lodge a complaint with police that the Prime Minister used
The Cold War may be over, but the useful idiots of the world’s remaining communist powers still pullulate in the West, in academia especially. When Australian billionaire philanthropist Paul Ramsay bequeathed an extraordinary fortune to fund scholarship in Western civilisation at Australian universities, the media and academia erupted in
Information Satire Legislation has been rushed through the house as a result of the horrific incident in Upper Hutt over the weekend. A new road roller (or steamroller as the media affectionately calls them) register will be established. The roller buy-back scheme will be targeted at semi-automatic, self-
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Calling a politician ‘red’ is often a smear, an attempt to muddy the boundary between well-meaning lefty and full on commie crank. But in Bernie Sanders’s case the descriptor is accurate. He openly calls himself
Tommy Kapai Wilson is the executive director of Te Tuinga Whanau, a social service agency committed to the needs of the community in and around Tauranga. Tommy is a thoroughly good bloke, working hard at the ‘coal face’ and making a difference in the community. What he says has value.
A close friend was diagnosed some years ago with HER2 positive breast cancer which has a high risk of recurrence. At the time, Herceptin was not government-funded, but without it, her probability of survival dropped dramatically. Unsurprisingly, she added a mortgage and fundraised most of the $130K for the
Hooray! Jacinda finally achieved something that’s not a new tax or ban. She’s managed to turn a cluster of rocks into a cluster of other sorts and in doing so, given life to a whole new autonomous and diverse tribe. That tribe definitely needs a name – encompassing Maori
This weekend, I came across a couple of photos that really sum up our dreadful government, and both made me despair. We have now gone from being governed by a group of smart and competent politicians to being controlled by a bunch of clowns. Let’s start with this photo,
Former Prime Minister Sir John Key is refusing to rule out giving Judith Collins behind-the-scenes advice for a leadership bid against Simon Bridges Collins seemed to be outright courting popularity and attention with her choice of National Party headwear […] Newshub
NEW Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg joked that his Nanny would be kept out of Parliament during a comedic debut at the Despatch Box yesterday. His opposite number Valerie Vaz suggested he could sack the 77-year-old nanny Veronica Crook now he has a team of staff in his
This video (46mins) is interesting for the obvious parallels with the current NZ Prime Minister. The explanation of why Stalin needed to collectivise the farms has its parallels with Jacinda Ardern’s recent overriding of property rights at Ihumatao. There are other clues to what our PM might try to
Possibly many Oilers shared my opinion that Todd Muller, MP for Western Bay of Plenty and National Party Climate Change spokesman, was attempting to steer a balanced course and soften the excesses of James Shaw et al. He appeared, in speeches in the house, to be agreeing with cuts while
