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Nicole McKee ACT Firearms Reforms spokesperson New Police proposals for licensed firearms owners include making them pay for the cost of Police attendance at a burglary, the Government wants licensed firearms owners to pay for the privilege of being burgled. Licensed Firearms Owners deserve the same rights as any other
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It is election year and commenters and pundits are all calling for people to vote for the National Party so we can rid ourselves of this Labour regime. But what are the differences really between Labour and National? From my perspective, they are different sides of the same coin. As
BREAKING: President Trump announces his plan to stop the chemical, physical, and emotional mutilation of our youth.pic.twitter.com/2ZNEWk8vNI — Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) January 31, 2023 Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading
Rosemary Abbott whakatakitimes.nz A journalist is slightly worse for wear this afternoon after getting a backhand of sorts from Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown. Brown, who enjoys his tennis, was his grumpy old self as journalists gathered at his local tennis club, seeking more comment from him about his response
Guy Hatchard PhD GLOBE.GLOBAL. HatchardReport.com The democratic Governor of New York Kathy Hochul has announced that hospitals and care facilities will not be allowed to employ unvaccinated staff because according to her they can transmit Covid to others (presumably to the virtuously vaccinated). A similar rule has been
Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, Senior Brownstone Scholar and 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is a psychiatrist working with the Unity Project. He is a former Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, where he was the director of Medical Ethics. First, by way of
Richard Shaw Professor of Politics Massey University With a cabinet reshuffle just a day after two polls showing Labour ahead again – in which he promoted more Maori MPs to the front bench, created a new Minister for Auckland portfolio and drew a line under the previous administration by demoting several
January 30th 2023. Well, the new year is well underway and there is an undefinable feeling that something is wrong with the UK. There is a feeling of malaise and an overriding sense of general unhappiness sitting like a damp blanket across the psyche of the nation. It is almost
If the media can drag themselves away from their favourite pastime of criticising Mayor Brown, they may see a similarity between the government’s big boo-boo on school closures to Mayor Brown’s tardiness in declaring an emergency for an unprecedented weather event… Or not. Both appeared ‘out of
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins continues to be the new broom in Government, re-setting his Government away from its problem areas in his Cabinet reshuffle
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz The cabinet reshuffle was predictable. Hipkins is, so far, our very worst Minister of Education. He has appointed someone who may well be worse: Jan Tinetti. Hipkins says: “As a former school principal and education expert new education minister is uniquely placed
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com A couple of months back I wrote a column on New Zealand’s high and, at that time, accelerating rate of inflation. I concluded that column with the following comment: There has to be some risk that, faced with growing public concern about inflation and the
As I predicted earlier, removing the fuel tax and RUC cuts has proved too difficult for the Government to even contemplate. With Hipkins’s promise to focus on the cost of living, removing the fuel tax and excise was going to see prices at the pump rocket up by a
Leighton Baker is missing! Where has he gone? Why have they excluded him from the polls? Why is RNZ suppressing this information? Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here
