Labour watered down Act deputy leader Brooke van Velden‘s resolution about Uighur genocide in a futile exercise of CCP bootlicking. The much-weakened statement, however, has still managed to enrage the CCP: China has lashed out after New Zealand’s Parliament declared “severe human rights abuses” are occurring there against
John Blaxland Australian National University John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies, and was recently appointed Official Historian of the Australian Signals Directorate and commissioned to write a two-volume history of ASD. Talk of war has become louder in recent days, but the “drumbeat” has been heard
The idea that the best person to catch a thief is a thief has been explored in countless stories and films, from The Stainless Steel Rat to To Catch a Thief. It even has real-life counterparts: hackers have been recruited to participate in anti-hacking initiatives. Still, those are the exceptions.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Unsurprisingly the United Nations has a Women’s Rights Commission, something that is a huge issue given the societal and religious oppression of women world-wide. The latter religious factor is primarily an Islamic issue. How then is its cause advanced by the election of Iran
5th May 2021 After three months of the coup, I can do no better than to quote a complete article from the Irrawaddy which is as good a summary of the position that you will get anywhere. The Irrawaddy is struggling along, but still managing to get quality information out
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader Mr Speaker, I move that this House is gravely concerned about the severe human rights abuses taking place against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. We call on the Government to work with the United Nations, international
Effectively selling the Port of Darwin to a Chinese-owned company is one of the most spectacular strategic idiocies of recent decades. When the Northern Territory government handed a 99-year lease over the port to Chinese owners in 2015, even the strategically inept Obama administration questioned the decision. Because, let’s
One significant outcome of the Tasmanian election has gone barely without mention by the mainstream media: the apparent lack of a “COVID bounce”. Premier Peter Gutwein was surely banking on one, when he called an early election on the flimsy excuse of having been pushed into minority government. After all,
4th May 2021 The EAOs are ramping up action against the Junta. They have started to inflict casualties at officer level to the Tatmadaw and now the police. The Mansi Township police chief was killed in an attack by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) on the central police station in
Victoria University of Wellington-Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. He has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker. For critics who believed she had gone soft on China, Jacinda Ardern’s line that differences
3rd May 2021 The above picture shows who is controlling the shots at the Global New Light of Myanmar. (No pun intended). Information on detained Myanmar Journalists: 1. Detained Journalists – 73 2. Released Journalists – 30 3. Arrested Journalists- 43 4. Prosecuted Journalists – 42 5. Arrest Warrants – 22 6. Prosecuted Media
My old Mum had a wise saying about bullies: They can dish it out, but they can’t take it. The same is particularly true of cry-bullies: those who self-righteously harass or intimidate others while playing the victim. Jacinda Ardern is having a bit of a sissy-Mary over alleged “bullying”
Notorious Australian criminal and raconteur Mark “Chopper” Read once commented to a journalist that “Posh people love gangsters”. People who live safe, cosseted lives seem to yearn for what gay slang once dubbed “rough trade”. Academics are definitely posh people. A US academic with a PhD averages more than twice
For decades, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) officials have recommended funding UNRWA. When presented with evidence of UNRWA schools teaching hate, MFAT officials also tried to justify the practice. The Chief Human Rights Commissioner has weighed in to suggest that the support for antisemitism “would place New Zealand
2nd May 2021 A wanted poster has been put up with a reward of 50 Pyar for the capture of an alleged criminal. There are 100 Pyar to the Kyat and about 1,000 kyat to the NZ dollar. The wanted poster in the southern city of Dawei on May
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. His plays have been produced and have toured at theatres and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater
