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There are many words that one could use to describe Trevor Mallard. Many of them are unsavoury, none are pleasant. But a High Court Judge took the time to find three words that accurately sum up his behaviour towards Winston Peters and other former MPs who visited the Parliament protest.
After multiple requests, then Speaker of the House Trevor agreed to meet me in August. I raised with him various concerns that I had also raised with the Prime Minister’s Office – of numerous Labour MPs being bullied in Parliament, staff not showing up to work and being drunk, Relationship
In a surprise move, Dr Sharma has resigned his seat in Parliament and there will be a by-election in the Hamilton West electorate. Unlike most socialist MPs the good Doctor does have “something to go back to” (as Bob Jones famously observed), hence having little desire to remain – bored
David Seymour ACT Party Leader It’s important that any lessons taken from Liz Truss’s downfall are based on actual data. The risk is New Zealand takes the wrong lesson from lazy analysis, particularly those on the political left who bleat on like the sheep in Animal Farm: tax
Jacqui Van Der Kaay Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Jacqui Van Der Kaay is a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a former journalist, holds a Masters degree in Political Science from Victoria University of Wellington and has a specialist interest in political
Getting out and about in Auckland has become a pleasant experience lately with barely a mask in sight, save for on a few permanently petrified faces. My goodness, it took long enough! Two and a half oppressive years before smiles returned and this on the back of the first term
Josh Van Veen Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Josh Van Veen is an Auckland-based writer and political analyst. He currently works as the Local Government Campaigns Manager for the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union and is a former member of New Zealand First. The views expressed
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Stephen Berry. Support Racial Division? You Are Just What They Are Looking For. The poison of identity politics is
Hello, it’s All things Political with John Porter on Bay FM and today I’m suggesting it is time we quit complaining about Ardern’s incompetent government. Why? Because we voted them in! And the old adage “We get the government we deserve” is very true, especially in this
October 19th 2022. If a writer was to pitch the current events to a BBC commissioning editor as political mystery series it would be given short shrift as it possessing not a shred of reality. Today saw the “resignation” of the Home Secretary Suella Braverman after a mere 40 days
Jacinda Ardern famously said during the 2017 election campaign that she believed that a person could have a career in politics without telling lies. That was, of course, a lie. It was a lie then and it’s a lie now. Since then she’s lied and lied and lied.
dailytelegraph.co.nz That’s the view of Voices For Freedom spokesman Tane Webster. In a video recently uploaded to Odysee, Webster explains why the government’s recently announced Farm Emissions Tax is a bad policy for the country. ‘In this case, it’s the Farm Emissions Tax. Let me
Jake Johnson commondreams.org Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. The expert chorus warning that the Federal Reserve is on the verge of plunging the U.S. into a painful recession has grown markedly louder in recent weeks as the central bank plows ahead with large interest
As Australia’s political show-trial of the century (so far) winds down to its close, the opposing arguments have boiled down to what rape cases almost always do: he said, she said. Rape accused Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer has told jurors they can’t “be satisfied beyond a reasonable
No wonder “A Curse on the Jews” extremist academic Jay Tharappel feels right at home in the Labor party. His new leader doesn’t just post chummy selfies with the odious Jeremy Corbyn, he follows eagerly in his anti-Semitic wake. The Albanese government has ignited a diplomatic furore with
