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Why does good government matter? E nga mana, e nga reo, rau-rangatira ma Prestigious people, speakers of note, chiefs one and all Nga tangata whenua, o tenei rohe Tena koutou katoa I acknowledge the indigenous people of this land and greet all of you in te reo M?ori
By NeedToBeAnnonymous I read Jacinda’s Melbourne speech transcript and it was an utter joke. She should resign from her job. That’s how bad it was. She was supposed to talk about good governance but instead spoke about good government. I had given her some credit, assuming that she’
At the end of a typical Tracy Watkins puff piece about our ‘Dear Leader’, ‘Comrade’ Ardern, Tracy snuck in a little reality as a reward for those who had waded through the syrup of the first 1000 or so words. […] Labour’s flagship policy, KiwiBuild, is in tatters; there’s
In the good old days – before we were swamped with ‘well-being’ Local Authorities had some well defined and useful roles. 10 Purpose of local government (1) The purpose of local government is— (a) to enable democratic local decision-making and action by, and on behalf of, communities; and (b)
Is there a reverse Midas touch effect with the Coalition government? Everything they do or attempt in the housing space seems to fail or make situations worse. A year-and-a-half after a controversial transitional housing village opened in Opal Dr, Papamoa, some neighbours have had enough of the
Jacinda Ardern has chosen to alienate 10% of the Voting Public because one foreign criminal skirted all our existing safeguards. She thinks that she can do what Canada, Australia and the UK have all failed to do at a cost of millions of dollars. The Government wants a national register
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By Rantykiwi Ron Mark is busily duck-shoving and deflecting blame for the 757 breakdown whilst utterly failing to address the elephant in the room. He should be asking what our PM was doing using a RNZAF plane in the first place. Defence Minister Ron Mark says the New Zealand
During the first round of Democratic presidential debates, Kamala “Look at me, I’m brown” Harris savaged Joe Biden for his 1970s opposition to busing – the leftist policy by which students from predominantly black areas were forced to take long bus rides to schools in white areas. The grand leftist
Simon Bridges has said that the 135 electric vehicles that have been added to the government fleet since the Labour coalition took office is paltry and shows that it is failing to lead by example. In real terms, the government itself has done nothing on electric vehicles since the election,
By Beth Houlbrooke ACT Deputy Leader / Vice President This week the Youth Parliament sat and it was encouraging to see and hear a number of young people speak on Freedom of Speech. Ali Gammeter and Gabriel Tagi have strong futures as community leaders ahead of them if their speeches are
National party In a move that contradicts the government’s “wellbeing” approach, mental health nurses have been axed from Counties Manukau Police Station. The ‘watch-house nurse pilot initiative’ was launched in 2008. It placed mental health nurses in the Counties Manukau police watch house. Following its success, the pilot
Since the Christchurch terror attack, the media hand in glove with the government have done their very best to demonise gun owners. Now the Deputy Police Commissioner Mike Clement has gone one step further… he is demonising inanimate objects! Guns cannot be “evil” in their nature, as he claims, any
