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Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson With over 100,000 new residents potentially joining the first home buyer market, expect to see the housing market continue to go crazy. Thousands of migrants on temporary work visas will be fast-tracked for residency after a major immigration policy
Morris 8 Morris 8 is a Wellington beltway insider, a small-c conservative, fiscally dry but socially liberal. Loves New Zealand but hates the current slide towards separatism and socialism. There’s a need for balance in all things, not least in the way we are governed. There are a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A small Flaxmere, Hastings church has been wasting money with full-page newspaper advertisements, pressing people to sign a petition urging the government open an Embassy in Israel. Where do I start? First, the naivete of the public. Parliament cops hundreds of petitions annually, on
Okay, that’s it, I’ve had quite enough of this government intruding in my life to rescue me from a virus with an infection fatality rate of between 0.04% and 0.05% and having a 99.5% survival rate. Lockdown actually means being locked up. Authorities couldn’t
Stuart Smith MP for Kaikoura Spokesperson for Climate Change, EQC and Viticulture Information Opinion Last week I wrote about the significance of Te Reo as a language in New Zealand. There is also no doubt that Maori culture should be valued and cherished in New Zealand. But it should come
Democracy falls when unelected people take power. Who knew that New Zealand would fall as a democracy in such a meek manner, with the people voluntarily handing over power to un-elected health bureaucrats? It’s like we have never learned from history. Adolf Hitler took power at the ballot
ACT Party This week – ACT reveals our latest COVID-19 policy document, COVID 3.0 – Life after Lockdowns. Karen Chhour takes on Oranga Tamariki and we hold the Government to account over Three Waters. IN THE NEWSCOVID 3.0 – Life after Lockdowns ACT released its latest in a series of
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Three Waters Plan Legislation Did you realise that the government is pushing through Bills about drinking water, waste water and stormwater? Piece by piece, using their 10 seat majority? Well, they are and who controls our water and who will own the infrastructure
Stuart Smith MP for Kaikoura Spokesperson for Climate Change, EQC and Viticulture I was invited by Climate Change Minister, James Shaw, to attend COP 26 in Glasgow later this year and indicated that I was interested in attending, subject to suitable travel arrangements being available. At that time it looked
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister’s strategy of eradicating COVID-19 and hiding behind the oceans is finished. She needs to stop fudging and confront reality on behalf of New Zealand. Every day of delusion increases the chance of COVID deaths. We need to prepare for the invasion
Chris Penk First published by The BFD 2nd July 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. An Act of stupidity The passage of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act will be remembered as one of the
Victoria Police are so desperate to stop the press from revealing what they’re doing in Melbourne right now that they’re actively trying to impose a media blackout. You know, communist China and North Korea style. First, they tried and failed to ban aerial protest telecasts when three mainstream
Geoffrey Dickens newsbusters.org Geoffrey Dickens is the Deputy Research Director at the Media Research Center. He currently writes for all of the MRC’s publications and outlets including MRC.org, Newsbusters.org, Notable Quotables and has contributed to past projects including MediaWatch and MagazineWatch. Since January 20, 2021 (President
Are the wheels finally falling off the climate catastrophe scam? While some of us caught on well over a decade ago – it’s hard to believe it’s been 12 years since the “climategate” emails blew the lie wide open – the slower kids are still playing catch-up and the
Don Brash hobsonspledge.nz Polls show that the great majority of New Zealanders don’t support a change in our country’s name. John Tamihere is correct that the Maori language became an official language in1987. And correct in asserting that people are entitled to assert the name Aotearoa. But
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. A new Texas law regulating social media content moderation may prove to be riding off into the sunset, after being challenged by a new lawsuit. In September, Governor Greg Abbott signed
