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Catch up on the latest in politics with our Week in Review below. * Labour’s Car tax will unfairly punish New Zealanders * National will reverse interest deductibility changes * No more excuses for the Govt’s vaccine shambles * Labour lacking action on Firearm Prohibition Orders Labour’s Car Tax Will Unfairly
15th June 2021 The monsoon has started in Myanmar and is hitting IDP camps in the jungle with devastating effect. Meanwhile, manoeuvring is going on in the background as the Junta tries to get International acknowledgement of its legitimacy. This has implications beyond the region for the west. The Myanmar
New Zealand has topped the OECD in relation to housing in the worst way possible coming in at number one for Bloomberg’s real estate risk rankings, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “As if the Government hasn’t had enough wake up calls to the crisis we are
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government is showing complete hypocrisy when it comes to electric vehicles by converting less than two per cent of the Government’s fleet. The new ‘feebate’ policy punishes farmers, tradies and large families with a tax on new vehicles to subside EVs. In answer to
Graham Adams democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom Despite widespread cynicism about the Government’s ability to fulfil its promises — whether it is KiwiBuild, light
The National Party won’t sit idly by while the violence in our prisons and the number of assaults on corrections officers continues to increase, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. National has today launched a five point plan to help reduce the violence experienced in our prisons. “Under
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson and Deputy Leader Four years in, the Ardern Government couldn’t be failing harder at ‘fixing’ housing. The Real Estate Institute of NZ’s (REINZ) House Price Index (HPI) figures out today show 29.8 per cent growth in the House Price Index nationwide
Information Satire Labour Thinking Explainer Editor Minister of Finance Grant Robertson announced today that all taxation will be abolished. Speaking to the world via a group conference call through Jacinda Ardern’s monopoly media empire he laid out an historic change to government revenue gathering. “This is another world first,
Bryan Leyland Bryan Leyland MSc, DistFEngNZ, FIMechE, FIEE(rtd) is a Power Systems engineer with 60 years of experience in the industry in New Zealand and overseas. He and his wife are majority owners of a small hydropower station. Up until May 2020 wholesale prices for electricity on the spot
The latest hoo-ha attaching to our current Prime Minister is the story that there is a film to be made about the Muslim massacre in Christchurch on 15 March 2019, under the title, “They Are Us”. We know who the “They” are. And the “Us” presumably covers the rest
Eliora The National Party need to shift their ‘Tech Sector and Opportunities’ policy from fifth and make it their Number One Policy. Smart people should communicate with this huge group of tech-savvy young people who have grown up in the digital world to encourage votes for National. Last year
A victim of the dawn raids has likened the policies instituted by Norm Kirk and Labour, and the treatment of Pasifika people in New Zealand in the 1970s, as similar to what happened with the ghettoisation of “Jewish people in the Nazi era”. But the apology comes after years of
Crown and Ngai Tahu hold first post-settlement hui to discuss partnership A cohort of ministers – including Nanaia Mahuta, Megan Woods, Kelvin Davis, and Peeni Henare – were welcomed onto Ngai Tuahuriri marae in Tuahiwi, north of Christchurch, for the first post-settlement hui between Crown and Ngai Tahu to discuss
We in the National Party believe building a strong economy means our young people have the opportunity to get ahead under their own steam, without having to head overseas. As Leader of the Opposition, one of my priorities is finding out how we can attract investment, grow jobs and support
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Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Can animals be victims of hate speech? Yes, according to a recent article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. Two academics from Sheffield University, in England, invoke heavy-hitting hate-speech theorists to argue that arguments which apply
