Dr Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz New Zealand First Cabinet Minister Shane Jones has become the best advertisement against the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill. In selling the radical new
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Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Did vested interests prevent New Zealand from establishing a world-leading environmental marine reserve? There are strong signs that in killing off the proposal for a
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Almost every day I am finding more and more reasons to like this Government. Shane Jones has spoken with complete sense as the Government moves to mine, drill and sell our natural resources. Resources Minister Shane Jones has gone “full Trump” and declared “war on nature” with comments he made
NZ First A ban on hunting under COVID-19 alert level 3 has been described as an “error” by Cabinet minister Grant Robertson, as the Government comes under pressure to allow the activity. Hunting had been deemed risky and was banned under the lockdown, and according to Government advice issued
Shane Jones has doubled down again on his Indian student comments. This time with Ngati Woke Kaumatua John Campbell. He will be ecstatic that the Media Party keep on promoting him: Shane Jones has both doubled down on his controversial comments about Indian students and changed tack entirely, claiming he
A liberal elite academic thinks Shane Jones’s Indian comments should be tested in a court of law. Although calling a professor at Waikato University an academic is stretching credulity a little: Whether Jones wants to take New Zealand back to ethnicity-based restrictions within immigration in the future is
Andrea Vance looks like she is putting her hand up for a leading role in the Media Party. She has an opinion piece that is as vitriolic as it is wrong, about Shane Jones and his alleged racism: […] in this era of alternative facts, it’s not hard to see
When NZ First’s Shane Jones called Ihumatao protest leader Pania Newton a “young Putiputi” (a young flower) it was only to be expected that the legacy media would twist and turn like a really twisty turny thing to try to turn a very innocuous comment into “sexism”, “misogyny” and
Shane Jones must be over the target such is the triggered response to his comments at Ratana: At the annual gathering at Ratana pa last Friday, Shane Jones unleashed an unhinged attack on Pania Newton. He referred to Pania as, “a young putiputi (flower)” then doubled down on his diatribe
Shane Jones has signalled to disappointed dry voters amongst National that there is a party that won’t put up with eco-evangelism from Woke Wombles: Outspoken NZ First MP and Minister Shane Jones has launched a scathing attack on climate-change activists who want Kiwis to eat less meat,
It all started over a tightening up of how partnership visas are managed when it involves arranged marriages. It seems that immigration officials may have been seen to be taking too soft a line on it and somebody senior suggested they need to tighten up and adhere to the letter
