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The Press Gallery’s resident granny, Audrey Young, has written a very good piece in the NZ Herald, that was let down by her sub-editor’s headline which doesn’t remotely reflect what is contained in the article: The fact that Judith Collins, who has been such a polarising
The UMR poll deliberately released last week appeared designed to be a hit job on Judith Collins. Most of the press releases carried the headline ‘Unprecedented poll result as David Seymour overtakes National leader Judith Collins in new UMR poll’. According to UMR this was ‘unprecedented’, a statement proved incorrect
Chris Hipkins implies that the jab is not voluntary and that they will hunt for those who haven’t had it in order to give it to them.
If Australians want to know what an “Indigenous Voice” to Parliament would look like in practice, they only need to look to Victorian Greens senator Lidia Thorpe. Her nickname, “Snow Woke”, is well-earned. A veteran trougher, appointed by her party to fill a vacancy, rather than elected, Thorpe has
Dune author Frank Herbert once said that his most important message was that “Governments make incredibly stupid decisions and lie to protect themselves”. After 18 months of the Chinese virus, no one should doubt that. Australian and New Zealand governments, like so many around the world, panicked and made the
Robert Horvath La Trobe University Dr Robert Horvath is a specialist on Russian Politics, Civil Society and International Human Rights. His latest book, Putin’s ‘Preventive Counter-Revolution’ (Routledge, 2013) is a study of the programme of reforms and repression that transformed the face of Russian politics during Vladimir Putin’
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust With another police officer conducting a routine traffic stop in Hamilton and being shot it is yet another example of the need for our frontline officers to be armed, says Darroch Ball co-leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “This is a clear
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org So, the War on Reality is going splendidly. Societies all across the world have been split into opposing, irreconcilable realities. Neighbors, friends, and even family members are bitterly divided into two hostile camps, each regarding the other as paranoid psychotics, delusional fanatics, dangerous idiots, and, in
Dear Editor I want to talk about hate. And how we articulate it. My sister won’t give me the remote, I hate her. The emotion is transient, almost meaningless, harmless. A criminal murdered a family member, raped my daughter, poisoned my dog: the hate is visceral, dark, and ultimately
David Seymour ACT Leader In an extraordinary interview on Newshub Nation this morning, Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt has demonstrated exactly why the Commission should be abolished. Hunt either refused or was unable to answer any of the questions to put to him. He was defensive of gangs and stood
News that a police officer was shot last night is incredibly concerning and my thoughts are with him and his family. I wish him a speedy recovery, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Our frontline officers put themselves in harm’s way every day in order to keep New
Democracy Action Reading the Government’s press release ‘Social Cohesion Programme To Address Incitement Of Hatred And Discrimination’, which heralds the proposed changes to the so-called ‘hate speech’ legislation, I thought we must be in Wonderland, having joined Alice in falling through the rabbit hole into a fantasy world.
9th July 2021 Things are on the move in Myanmar, and there are three major issues that are coming to the forefront that need a solution or there will be the makings of a first-rate disaster. Myanmar is facing an unprecedented threefold tragedy: deadly violence, an out-of-control
Save us from slick politicians with five minutes’ life experience under their belts suggesting we reconfigure the housing market because they, and others like them, can’t get a foot on the property ladder. If renting is so unsustainable “in this country” (a phrase Swarbrick used several times that I
