GUEST BLOG: Peter Hughes – Listen to our Teachers I say
Primary school teachers across the country are striking for the second time in 3 months. This is Historic. I think…
New Zealand Politics
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TWITTER WATCH: National Party Stormtrooper Hamish Price goes full Trump on Pike River Mine
I’m guessing the Venn Diagram of people who hate Jacinda’s baby and who believer re-entry into the Pike River Mine is wrong almost overlap entirely.
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Wait, what? A National Party Member is now in a relationship with Karel Sroubek’s ex???
There are enough reasons already to conclude this is a storm in a tea cup, but this latest fact starts making it look suspicious.
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The Nashy solid under Wally Haumaha high ball as report denies NZ media another #MeToo Villain
…I’m no fan of the cops but the medias attempt to manufacture another #MeToo villain here seemed to outweigh their journalistic curiosity as to who was actually leaking all of this to them, and more importantly, why?
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A Diet Of Lies
Very few New Zealanders ever grasped what the rest of the world saw when it looked upon the British Empire: a huge blood-smeared lion whose sharp teeth and vicious claws struck terror into the hearts of all those too weak to resist them.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Hope and Heartlessness
I went to a meeting yesterday . 26 people – really good hearted people from all walks of life – called together by Barrister Jo Wickliffe to see if we could help solve a problem.
You see, Auckland City doesn’t have a night shelter.
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GUEST BLOG: Deputy Police Commissioner Wally Haumaha
I am very pleased that we now have Ms Scholtens QC’s independent report. Her findings on the process for my appointment answer the matters that have been raised. The IPCA’s report is still to come: but she has already found that the appointment process was correctly carried out.
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Dr Liz Gordon: In Flanders field, the poppies grow
So now 100 years have passed since the end of the first globalised war – a war in which most countries either took sides or (some) refused to do so. A war in which so many were killed like little rats in dug trenches, their lives squashed in an instant. Anyone who hasn’t seen the extraordinary representation of the Gallipoli campaign at Te Papa should certainly do so (closes in April 2019). It makes me cry every time for the human tragedy and waste, and I am a serial viewer.
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Wait, What? NZ Spies & cops need MORE terrorism powers? Really? After all that mass surveillance?
This is a deeply concerning slide towards huge Police State powers with no ability to reign them in and not even a rational explanation as to why we should keep feeding them with more and more intrusive search and surveillance powers.
Who is the threat? Extremists or the Deep State?
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In just 7 words did Andrew Little demolish real prison reform?
NZ First lets Andrew know when he can bark.