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Free Press ACT Party Last weekend Andrea Vance wrote a bizarre piece for the Sunday Star about what David Seymour thinks. The Sunday Star Times refused to run this response, which is a shame. We think it’s an outstanding defence of liberal democracy, and the inherent dignity each person
The Joe Pags Show is a nationally syndicated talk radio show broadcast on stations all over the USA with an audience of around 5 million. Here in New Zealand you can listen on iHeart radio or as I prefer to do, view it on Twitch TV. The show is on
When China’s “wolf warrior” diplomats huff and puff and denounce their critics, it all comes across to Western ears as just so much shrill hypocrisy. After all – China, lambasting America for human rights abuses? China, calling other countries “thin-skinned” and “hysterical”? Much of it is certainly calculated righteous
Free Speech Union The more that our elected lawmakers talk about the proposed ‘hate speech’ laws, the more concerned New Zealanders should become, according to the Free Speech Union. “Over the weekend the Minister of Justice, Kris Faafoi, couldn’t clearly say that millennials wouldn’t be up for possibly
National are broadly in agreement with the Government’s decision to phase out a range of particularly problematic plastics, National’s Environment spokesperson Scott Simpson says. “There won’t be many New Zealanders who don’t think we have too much plastic in our lives and that much of it,
rt.com Former President Donald Trump has opened an account on Rumble, a rival video platform to YouTube. Trump remains blacklisted by every major social media outlet after his supporters rioted on Capitol Hill in January. An account named ‘Donald J. Trump’ appeared on Rumble on Saturday bearing the site’
An eye-watering $99.87 million has been paid to the top 50 emergency housing moteliers in the nine months to March 2021 compared to $21 million for the whole of 2017/18 and is a stark indicator of just how big this crisis has become, says National’s Social
Lauren Chen rt.com Lauren Chen is a political and social commentator. She began as a YouTuber, and has since gained millions of views on the platform and hundreds of thousands of followers. Many Canadians consider their country to be a free one, but unfortunately the Trudeau government is moving
If New Zealand is to have an informed discussion about Labour’s ‘Hate Speech’ laws the Prime Minister needs to ensure she is giving accurate information to the media; this morning on The AM Show she did not, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “Incitement to violence is quite
David Seymour ACT leader It’s not just the Justice Minister who doesn’t understand his own Hate Speech Laws, the Prime Minister has proved she’s also out of her depth. This morning when asked about the new laws on the AM Show, Jacinda Ardern made not just one,
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
27th June 2021 Four people’s defence forces announced today that they will work together towards defeating the Junta. They are the PDFs from Kyaukse, Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway and will share technology and information. Meanwhile, the justice system in Myanmar gets ever more brutal. At least 64 Myanmar citizens
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. There are certainly some divisions in caucus over Muller’s forced departure. Following the announcement of his retirement over his speaking to the media, Simon
I used to think that I lived in a country with laws that protected all citizens equally. Yesterday we published on The BFD evidence that, when it comes to discriminating against people based on their race, the law has made an exception: to allow discrimination on the basis of race
