A Rainy Afternoon In September
GEORGE LIFTED HIS HAND in greeting as Martyn entered the bar. At two o’clock on a rainy afternoon in early September the place was virtually empty.
New Zealand Politics
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Jacinda, MFAT and the Nauru omnishambles highlights the terror China has caused
MFAT played this new Government over the TPPA and they played them at Nauru, Jacinda and Winston should demand explanations as to how and why this became a fiasco.
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The NZ Left desperately need to see this video right now
The NZ Left, Woke Twitter, the Emerald Stormtroopers, anyone who works at the Spinoff, micro aggression policing Millennials, PSA Staff, cyclists, vegans, subscribers to ActionStation, most of the Green Party Caucus, Fourth Wave Feminists, gender binary activists and the Wellington Twitterati desperately need to see this video.
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The Kiwi Doctrine: Upholding and Restoring Human Rights In The South Pacific
The New Zealand Government has repeatedly offered to take at least 150 of the refugees marooned on Nauru. The Australians have brushed aside all such offers with sneering contempt. After all, what can the Kiwis do about it? What can the Kiwis do about it? Nothing. What could the Kiwis do about it with a radically re-configured and re-equipped NZDF? Plenty.
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METHINKS THE KINGDOM DOTH PROJECTETH TOO MUCH – On Saudi Arabia’s Attack Against Canada
You know, it is the most curious thing. I opened my newspaper earlier in the week (not in a web-browser,…
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MEDIAWATCH: Paedophile rings, Dave Chappelle, Louis CK, Transphobia & the Martyrdom of Mummy Bloggers – Are the Woke Left the new Sensible Sentencing Trust?
…I had figuratively compared what was going on to the Salam Witch trials of the late 1600s because that was the last time we allowed allegation to be the evidential threshold, but it’s actually literal here when you consider the role of a person who claims to have magical powers in being the accuser.
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Blending the bills – how NZ could get the world’s best medicinal cannabis law
This isn’t rocket science, and we don’t need to reinvent the wheel. To get a good medicinal cannabis law, we just need to focus on patients.
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Another Public Service failure! There’s little to celebrate in Corrections sudden drop of 600 prisoners – just incandescent rage
These public servants who suddenly find the ability to treat the most vulnerable with dignity without any change to policy should be sacked not celebrated, what the fuck were you doing in the first place?
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Plaudits For Law-Change Free Prison Muster Reduction
It is worrying in the extreme that a situation of unjust imprisonment may be welcomed ‘just because’ it may make somebody else feel a little bit safer – indeed, it is tantamount to starting down the greased incline of asking whether certain segments of the population ought be ‘walled off’ for the general protection of the rest of us even regardless of whether they’ve actually been proven to have committed any crime.
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Prime Minister must challenge Nauru over despicable detention of Barbara Dreaver!
The NZ Government MUST condemn such an action publicly and immediately demand an explanation, past that however we also need to recognise that NZ and in particular the bloody Australians have dealt the people of Nauru a disgusting legacy.