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On Wednesday night the Government pushed through a change to the voting age in local body elections, lowering it to 16 years old. It is a sneaky, furtive, surreptitious move by the ever-so-transparent Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty! Last night, in a dazzling display of democracy at its
Kate C. Prickett Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com By introducing four weeks of paid parental leave for partners if re-elected, the Labour Party would move New Zealand out of an undesirable and tiny club of OECD nations. Only the United States and Israel would then not offer something
Well, the spruikers of the Indigenous Voice referendum just keep on handing us more reasons to vote No. Whether it’s Marcia Langton’s “threat” that we’ll never hear another Welcome to Country, or Noel Pearson’s promise that he’ll “fall silent”, if the referendum is voted down,
Eunice Gaerlan Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com The National Party’s promised ban on cellphones in schools has been touted by leader Christopher Luxon as a “common sense” and “practical” way to address New Zealand’s poor academic achievement. And his claim that “phones are a massive disturbance and
Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. mercatornet.com Liberalism is broken. This is a big kick-sand-in-my-face claim. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Canada’s embrace of euthanasia supplies that evidence. Let’s unpack this. First, what is
Last month Nicola Willis released Labour’s leaked policy on GST: to make fruit and vegetables exempt. At the time Labour refused to confirm or deny it was their policy. Grant Robertson was actually against it. Even he had worked out the many fishhooks that would eventuate. A lawyer’s
New Zealand First policy is that the government has no business in the nation’s bedrooms. But for a government to allow biological men access to women’s and girl’s restrooms, changing rooms, and other safe places, goes against the commonsense and logic of the vast majority of Kiwis.
The world, and our Government, knew two years ago in August 2021 that Ivermectin successfully prevented and treated Covid-19 but it took two years for a study of the mass use of Ivermectin in Peru to be favourably peer-reviewed. Why so long? And isn’t the timing interesting
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Above are my poll predictions, net of the nutter under 5% riff-raff (Tamaki, Opportunity Party et al). Including NZ First as anti-government, those numbers amount to 2 in every 3 voters being anti-government. Much of Labour’s lost vote will go to the
It is becoming more and more apparent that David Parker is not a happy camper in Labour’s tent. He has taken on a surly demeanour, more so than his usual negative disposition. Recently he quit the post of Revenue Minister, and now he is being sullen with talk about
John Goddard @nonestlex WRONGTHINK I just got fired for wrongthink. Then I find out that my bank account’s been frozen, too. I try to get an Uber back home but no cars will pick me up. How did Uber find out I committed wrongthink? I check my phone and
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As I asked recently: is the Climate Cult barking mad? We know they’re not stupid… well, not all of them. Some of them are very smart people. But they’d surely have to be out of their minds: how else could a scientist, an engineer even, say things like
Politics has been a tumultuous ride for both Pauline Hanson and Mark Latham. It’s just got a bit wilder, with Hanson sacking Latham as leader of her party in NSW. Mark Latham is no longer the leader of the NSW division of One Nation, after the party made the
How many more people have to die on the vast plains of Ukraine before the Masters of War are sated with blood? How long before the mainstream media stop lying about the war in order to drum up business for the military-industrial complex? Experience tells us that the last
