Skip to content

Politics

Everything about politics

Police Consultation on Firearm Fees A Sham

Police Consultation on Firearm Fees A Sham

Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. www.sportingshooters.nz In August 2021 the Office of the Auditor General issued a guide for “The setting and administration of fees and levies for cost recovery with four basic principles: 1. Equity 2. Efficiency 3. Justifiability 4. Transparency The guide further states

Members Public
The Battle Is Never Won
NZ

The Battle Is Never Won

In the classic movie The Usual Suspects there is the line “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist“. A variation on that theme was after the collapse of communism in Russia and Europe; most freedom lovers thought, “Oh that’s that

Members Public
Labour’s Court Jester Is Willie Jackson
NZ

Labour’s Court Jester Is Willie Jackson

We all know, only too well, that Jacinda Ardern is spoilt for choice when it comes to blunderers, incompetents and wastrels to staff her cabinet. In fact, you could say, “Her cup runneth over!” Hello, it’s All things Political, with John Porter on Bay FM and as today is

Members Public
You May Die: New Zealand Govt Report
NZ

You May Die: New Zealand Govt Report

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

Members Public
Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction

Members Public
Oh, So Now Human Rights Matter?

Oh, So Now Human Rights Matter?

An activist, hard left, High Court judge has decided that constitutional conventions separating the judiciary and Parliament don’t matter one iota, as she hands down a criminal friendly judgment: A 501 deportee had several human rights breached by the Government and his treatment was unlawful, the High Court has

Members Public
Fashionable Silliness
NZ

Fashionable Silliness

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a mindbogglingly inane contributory NZ Herald article Rob Campbell, chairman of Auckland’s casino (among other sinecures) asks, “Who on earth is being hurt by co-governance?”. I’ll answer that by stating the obvious. We all are. In a democracy the underlying principle

Members Public
Pandering to the Hard Left Yet Again

Pandering to the Hard Left Yet Again

You can always tell when it’s summer in Australia (even when it’s as miserable and dull a one as this): the cricket’s on the telly, the news starts hawking luridly coloured weather maps to try and frighten us, and the lefties are whinging about Australia Day again.

Members Public
persons hand on glass window

An Orwellian New Climate Change Rule

Peter Imanuelsen petersweden.substack.com I’m Peter Imanuelsen | Swedish journalist | Political commentator | Supporter of freedom, kindness and liberty | Remember when people were called ”conspiracy theorists” for warning that climate lockdowns would be the next step? Well, just have a look at this new extremely draconian rule in Britain that

Members Public
Turning NZ into a CCP Airstrip

Turning NZ into a CCP Airstrip

Well, if it ever comes to a hot war with China, the generals in Beijing can at least rest assured they’ve got plenty of staging areas in the Pacific. Not just the knockoff “islands” they’ve been manufacturing in the South China Sea, or even the Cargo Cultists of

Members Public
They Don’t Trust the People

They Don’t Trust the People

One of the unfortunate realities of 2022 has been rampant inflation and its effect on the ability to make ends meet for so many folk. Even I am rather glad my New Hope Coal dividend arrived last month (God I love fossil fuels!) for me to live on for a

Members Public
brown wooden tool on white surface

No Medical Freedom for New Zealanders or Justice for Baby W

NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science Justice Ian Gault made his decision in the case of Baby W and gave temporary medical  guardianship of the baby to Te Whatu Ora (to be undertaken by Starship hospital doctors). A spokesperson for New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS)

Members Public
white and black typewriter on green grass during daytime
NZ

Right, Left and Centre Viewpoints

The last Weekend Herald before Christmas featured a summing up of the political year from three of its regular opinion writers: Fran O’Sullivan, Mike Munro and Bruce Cotterill. Fran, a seasoned journalist, mostly writes objectively without fear or favour, as the saying goes, through her media lens. Mike Munro,

Members Public
Goodbye 2022—the End of a Nightmare

Goodbye 2022—the End of a Nightmare

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com globe.global Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a

Members Public
Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction

Members Public
I Thought Maori Invented Swimming?
NZ

I Thought Maori Invented Swimming?

Apparently, too many Maori are drowning, and it’s all the fault of colonialism. If only we could approach water safety the Maori way it could solve this problem. Well, that’s what the woke Wombles at Water Safety NZ have decided: With summer here, families and tourists will flock

Members Public