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Labour’s underhand last-minute move to shut down debate on my members Bill (Rights for Victims of Insane Offenders Bill) is a disaster for victims’ rights, Louise Upston MP for Taupo says. “Victims of insane offenders have had their suffering diminished for too long in our criminal justice system
He is not so mighty yet that he is above fear; nay, doubt ever gnaws him J R R Tolkien, “The Lord of the Rings” 100 years ago, the first step was taken on the road to tens of millions of deaths and decades of misery for nearly ¼ of humanity.
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing Spokesperson The Government needs to scrap its Healthy Homes rules and go back to the drawing board, including properly consulting experts and landlords. Public Housing Minister Poto Williams has admitted that the Government’s Healthy Homes rules aren’t right but that landlords still have
National is committed to ensuring New Zealand shares the same diplomatic tools and capabilities as its Western counterparts, National’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gerry Brownlee says. Mr Brownlee’s Autonomous Sanctions Bill would allow a New Zealand government to impose sanctions on foreign individuals, entities or regimes responsible for situations
Prior to Covid-19, New Zealand enjoyed an unprecedented tourism boom, generating foreign exchange earnings, investment and jobs but it has left popular destinations struggling with the impact of freedom campers, National List MP based in West Coast Tasman Maureen Pugh says. Ms Pugh’s Member’s Bill, the Freedom
Mark Cameron ACT Rural Affairs spokesperson A new Bill from the ACT Party drawn today will ensure the baton of environmental regulations is given to regional councils and taken out of the hands of Wellington bureaucrats. In recent years farmers have been hammered by regulations put in place by Government
Contrary to the blatherskite of the racially “Indigenous Voice” proposal, Aboriginal people already have a voice to parliament. It’s called a “vote”. There are a plethora of other Aboriginal “voices”, too: quangos and taxpayer-funded corporations supposed to advance Aboriginal interests. Supposed to. Too often, it seems, such bodies
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government is creating further ethnic division with its procurement policy of requiring firms to favour ‘Maori businesses’ hitting the inboxes of firms that contract to Government up and down the country. The policy is one for elite Maori, those who are in business. For working-
Perils To use cricketing parlance, I wouldn’t say Donald was “out for a duck”, not by the way he was “swinging the mace” at his rally in Wellington Ohio where tens of thousands stood in fields to cheer for America First. It’s not like watchers of cricket, who
Bob McCoskrie National Director Family First We’ve been made aware of a new resource designed primarily for faith-based schools by InsideOut. InsideOut is a Rainbow Youth programme funded by the Ministry of Social Development which is being pushed under the banner of ‘anti-bullying’, and aimed at children
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government is taking the whole country on the path to being an ethno-state, not just the select Maori leaders it’s chosen to consult on its implementation of He Puapua. If there’s to be a constitutional conversation, everybody deserves to be part of
This Government is proposing a significant tax on Mum and Dad landlords despite promising prior to the election that they would impose no new taxes, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “According to advice from Treasury, IRD, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development dated February 2021, the
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has not been shy about his aim to rapidly reduce the prison population by 30 per cent and it is perhaps the only target this Government is actually going to meet. However, Labour’s ‘Hate-Speech’ law changes might put a spanner in the works, National’
If I hadn’t been laid low with a winter bug I would have commented earlier, the subject being the editorial in last Saturday’s Weekend Herald. These days the authors never identify themselves and, if last week’s effort was anything to go by, with good reason. If anyone
