Gun nuts should be under surveillance now
The more & more I read of the irrational, wilfully ignorant & down right malicious crap spouted by the NZ Gun Lobby…
Year: 2019
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Why Shane Jones must be destroyed
Shane Jones is being publicly flogged in the media in todays Political Roundup.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Using Shane as a wedge
A dedicated team of propaganda writers don’t stop just because they have been censured and fined by the broadcasting standards association.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Help the little guys fight the big guys
Creswell NZ sounds like a New Zealand owned company doesn’t it?It’s not. In fact it is owned by Nongfu Spring Co., Ltd a massive Chinese bottling company and last year our Government allowed them to buy the land to build a massive 16,800m2 water bottling mega-plant at Otakiri in the Bay of Plenty .
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Dave Macpherson: Waikato DHB tries to bully legal system into changing Coronial outcome in Nicky Stevens case
After trying for two months to get a copy of Waikato DHB’s complaint to the Solicitor General about the Coroners findings regarding our son Nicky’s death, our family has finally got its hands on a copy – and no wonder the DHB was refusing to give us a copy!
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Dr Liz Gordon – Under the sea
No-one wishes a stroke on anyone, and I was sorry to hear that he-who-had-a-right-wing-website-that-shall-not-be-named had two last year and has now declared bankruptcy. I wish him a speedy recovery. A friend of mine wondered how the big fish website was going now it was no longer owned by ‘he-who-had’.
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Tom Scott and Aramoana’s Long Shadow
From Tom Scott’s collection of cartoons, “Life in New Zealand”‘ – his take on the Aramoana massacre on 13 November 1990 where a crazed gunman shot and killed thirteen people.
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What about the actual military weapons?
After the Christchurch massacre, there’s a rightful focus on the prevalence and public access to ‘semi-automatic military-style’ guns. It takes a crisis to create change but with the loopholes in our gun laws, and in light of previous governments’ missed opportunities and the current government’s previous plans to centralise gun registration inspections, in fact, reform is overdue. Shame it took a massacre to force this change.
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A shameful response to Turkey’s generosity at Gallipoli
When we in Australia and New Zealand cry, Lest We Forget our fallen soldiers, we should also never forget President Atatürk’s comforting words.
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Malcolm Evans – Today
Malcolm Evans – Today