THE COALITION GOVERNMENT’S new “Culturally Arranged Marriage Visitors Visa” offers a powerful demonstration of multiculturalism at work. It signals to all those persons intending to settle in New Zealand that their traditional cultural practices will not be forbidden or discouraged by the authorities of their prospective new home. Regardless of how jarring those practices might be to the native-born population, official tolerance is guaranteed.
In any civilised society this tweet from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be an outrage.
The Government is there to shape and regulate the market for public good, this is a way to reshape it and make peoples lives a little easier.
This is a huge political victory for Seymour and the woke’s attempt to strangle off free speech has back fired.
Will this bill allow those in pain and with terminal illness the peace they deserve or will it become a loophole of coercion?
We can’t keep subsidising Chinese military propaganda and American corporate interests to tell their stories and sell their values without contributing to our own voice and our own national interests.
This afternoon the new venue for Feminism 2020 will be announced. The new venue is sacred space for NZ democracy and it is place that can not and must not ever be silenced so any attempt by the Wellington Woke to shut it down simply won’t be tolerated by anyone else in NZ.
I’m glad Labour have done the right thing and told Immigration to ease up definitions of marriage to take Indian arranged marriages into consideration when granting partnership visas.
In a letter today to the New Zealand Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is calling on the government to condemn the political assassination of two leaders of Islamic Jihad.
As TDB has been pointing out from the beginning, the issue with the Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill is not as the Greens tried to claim about Identity Politics, it’s the fact that this entire house of cards is based on an evidential threshold FAR below that of Criminal…