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National understands the Immigration Minister intends to make a long-overdue announcement this week about issues plaguing New Zealand’s immigration system after years of inaction and postponed promises, says National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford. “Having consistently ducked for cover throughout the pandemic, it is imperative the Minister seizes
David Seymour ACT Leader It’s time to start planning for life beyond lockdowns. We can’t keep living with the uncertainty that we could be locked down again at any moment. It’s time to look to the future with a renewed sense of confidence. Delta has changed the
New Conservative Ted Johnston New Conservative Spokesman New Conservative states the Labour government’s Covid 19 response strategy of ongoing lockdowns must stop. New Zealanders are tired of these continued restrictions on movement and freedom. Businesses are suffering with people digging into their retirement and other savings just to stay
Harry Hunt Information Opinion Common sense: everyone has it, no one uses it. That’s how I would describe the current political world. Fewer facts, more attacks. All it is doing is hurting the team. National has always had my unquestionable support until last year. It’s not because of
New information has revealed Amazon wanted to keep filming the Lord of the Rings television series in New Zealand, but the Government’s unwillingness to hear them out forced the series offshore, costing the economy billions, National’s Economic Development spokesperson Todd McClay says. “Despite Amazon petitioning hard to keep
Taxpayers’ Union Over the last few months, we’ve been swamped with questions from supporters across the country about Nanaia Mahuta’s plan to reform “Three Waters”. She and her Cabinet colleagues want to take billions of dollars’ worth of drinking water, waste water, and storm water assets off the
Many a politician or their ilk has been ‘wasted’ on Newshub Nation by Tova O’Brien so Judith Collins was right to be wary of suffering the same fate when asked to go on Nation. She said ‘Not Tova’, and Tova crowed about this comment on Newshub. Anyway a compromise
Grant Finch The ‘Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi as expressed by the Courts and the Waitangi Tribunal’ explains how the legal profession has arrived at its current position on the Treaty and invented ‘partnership’. This is too narrow an examination as it limits itself to the machinery of law
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Zealand is by a very long shot, the most geographically isolated developed nation in the world. For that reason we’ve always suffered a sizeable brain drain as anyone with an ounce of spirit, leaves for the more interesting life the wider world offers.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, governments all around the world borrowed – or printed – money to stimulate the economy. It was enormously successful because the plan almost everywhere was to get people out of the dole queues and back into work by building infrastructure. That was how so many
While the rest of the “Team of $55 million” in Big Media were dribbling over a video of Jacinda Ardern walking in Wellington, claiming it went viral, they missed the real viral explosion all over her Facebook page. Quite why she decided to offer up unsolicited medical advice on Facebook
Free Press ACT Party The Haps ACT’s caucus had a good week. Karen Chhour appeared on TVNZ’s Q+A to make a very simple point. The safety and welfare of children should come before cultural considerations when they are placed in care. That nobody else is saying this
Twiddling your thumbs while still at Level 3 this Friday morning? Well, here’s your big chance to ask all the questions you have been wanting to ask about He Puapua, including whether Maori truly covet their own House of Parliament. Newstalk ZB will have Claire Charters, author of the
Chris Penk First published by The BFD 28th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Just a PPE dream As we’ve seen, the perception of widely available testing proved, on closer inspection, to be a
