I doubt if Judge Joe Watts would have stopped the rampage of violence against women and girls demonstrated by the Howse brothers, if he had properly convicted and sentenced Peter that day. But it would have been another brick in the wall, wouldn’t it?
Former Defence Minister; failed National Party leader aspirant; one-time mercenary-for-hire, and current (for the moment) National defence spokesman, Mark Mitchell, may have opened a 44-gallon drum-of-worms with his assertion that Coalition Defence Minister, Ron Mark, has been “using the Air Force as a personal taxi service”.
In 2016, Stuart Nash proposed a ten-year moratorium on commercial fishing within waters 50m deep. He said the video monitoring programme needed to be rolled out more quickly, that the (National) government wasn’t doing enough. By 2017 after the formation of the Labour – New Zealand First coalition government, he has suggested doing away with electronic monitoring altogether and has proposed nothing credible or timely in its place.
Judith goes lower for clear access to the throat
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The whole reason why Winston was pushing for a free trade deal with Russia was a counter pressure point to Chinese threats to our economy if NZ pushed through legislation banning foreign land sales.
When we face a catastrophic climate change future, who are the NZ Government working for? NZers or big oil?
That the Ministry for Abusing Children had the gall to explain to the Judge that they couldn’t place the teen because the Horse of the Year is on, while hilarious for its Nu Zilindness, sums up the ‘not-funded-enough-to-give-a-fuck’ mentality from the Ministry.
We must stop allowing our water to be exploited like this, it is madness.
Greenpeace has asked the State Services Commission to expand its investigation into the use of Thompson and Clark by a…