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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The unbelievably insane proposed $800 million ‘cycle bridge’ attached to the Auckland harbour bridge, WILL NOT HAPPEN. Why? Because the understandable uproar across the country has been such, no government could survive such craziness and all governments principal motivation is survival. This decision was so
Dear Editor He Puapua is racist pandering propaganda to promote part-Maori as victims with entitlement to equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. By promoting separate government for part-Maori, Labour seeks to divide the nation into factions and then gather the factions together for the benefit of Labour–not for
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Despite the avalanche of feelings expressed against the They Are Us film being made – something that blogger Martyn
Todd Muller has decided to step down at the next election after nine years as the Member of Parliament for the Bay of Plenty. “This has been a difficult decision because being a Member of Parliament is a huge privilege, but it does come at a cost. I have decided
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Watch for the avalanche of editorials and columnists accusing Winston Peters of dog whistling over his weekend speech. But, indisputably he was 100% right on every assertion and he spoke for the silent majority. I’ve raised the name-change issue before, this initially a
Josh Van Veen Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Josh Van Veen is former member of NZ First and worked as a parliamentary researcher to Winton Peters from 2011 to 2013. He has a Masters in Politics from the University of Auckland. His thesis examined class voting
Labour is pushing through a second car tax that will see Kiwis have to pay $12,000 more for a hilux in 2025, unfairly punishing those who don’t have the option to switch to an EV, National’s Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. Under the Government’s Clean Car
22nd June 2021 The resistance is getting stronger. In Mandalay, anti-junta cells are in operation but are having to deal with informants. The way the conflicts are developing there will be an increase in bodies floating down the Irrawaddy river. A Mandalay civilian resistance group fighting against the military
Events of the past few days evoke the question not whether this Labour government has lost the plot, but whether they ever had one to start with. Especially since being unexpectedly catapulted into government in 2017 through the spite of utu-driven NZ First leader Winston Peters, who blamed National
While it is encouraging to see that Labour have finally responded to the 2017 Sea Change report, the Government’s announcement bears the hallmarks of another shallow policy announcement, National’s Oceans and Fisheries spokesperson Tim van de Molen says. “New Zealand’s nearly four years under this Government is
In a classic case of quantity over quality, the Government has managed to add just five new youth mental health beds after allocation of nearly two billion dollars: In Budget 2019 the Government announced $1.9 billion for mental health – $235 million of that was allocated to building mental health
New Zealand is in the midst of a mental health crisis and this Government has proven itself incapable of delivering on any of their promises to address it, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “The Prime Minister has had nearly four years to make progress on her pledges of
The eye-watering cost of the Waitemata cycle bridge could balloon out even further despite overwhelming public opposition to the project as it stands, National’s Associate Transport spokesperson Christopher Luxon says. “In 2017 Labour promised to build the SkyPath crossing for $30 million. The latest version of this project
