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Jail time for shooting pictures of politicians

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Christchurch man Nathan Raureti Symington was sentenced yesterday to 2 years and 6 months jail for distributing 'objectionable material' and possession of a firearm. Symington...

Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more progressive path?

Bryce Edwards -

Cabinet Minister David Parker recently told the Spinoff he’s reading “The Triumph of Injustice – how the wealthy avoid paying tax and how to...

Our enemy, the State

Ramesh Thakur -

Medically idiotic, economically ruinous, socially disruptive and embittering, culturally dystopian, politically despotic: what was there to like in the Covid era? Billions, if you were...

Government to review weather forecasting system

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The Government has commissioned a review of New Zealand’s weather forecasting system, State Owned Enterprises Minister Duncan Webb says. “MetService and NIWA have capability critical...

Firearms Safety Authority privacy breach

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Firearms Safety Authority (FSA) can confirm that earlier this afternoon it’s Auckland District Office sent an email to 147 recipients that revealed the email...

Bryce Edwards: Chris Hipkins failed to prevent the Kiri Allan tragedy

Bryce Edwards -

Electoral calculation was surely at the centre of Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ unfortunate decision to keep flailing Minister Kiri Allan on in her job...

Hipkins announces reallocation of portfolios in wake of Kiri Allan resignation

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has announced the reallocation of Kiri Allan’s ministerial portfolios, promoting newer Ministers who have demonstrated promise. “Ginny Andersen will become the...

NZ First campaign launch, Winston: ‘Let’s take back our country’

Daily Telegraph NZ -

New Zealand First launched its campaign for this year's general election at Mt. Smart Stadium today. Leader Winston Peters called the election 'the most critical...

Guy Hatchard: While you were sleeping…

Guy Hatchard -

Under urgency the government has passed the Therapeutic Products Bill while we were distracted by the world cup and the violent events in Auckland....

Open Letter To Dr. Shane Reti, National Party Spokesperson on Health

Guy Hatchard -

Dear Dr. Reti I would like to commend your efforts over the last three months to accompany ambulance staff up and down the country as they...

Prime Minister’s statement on Kiri Allan

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Full text statement of Chris Hipkins released today. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins met with Kiri Allan this morning to discuss her recent leave and allegations...

Bryce Edwards: The Era of complacency over political conflicts of interest is over

Bryce Edwards -

Michael Wood has become a victim of his own complacency about conflicts of interest. He simply didn’t take integrity rules meant to protect the New...

Michael ‘River of filth’ Wood resigns from portfolio, Hipkins outlines new Ministerial disclosure scheme

Daily Telegraph NZ -

'River of filth' Wood is now officially up the creek. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has accepted the resignation of Transport Minister Michael Wood. In a press...

A nation divided and misinformed cannot progress. It is time for scientists to set the record straight

Guy Hatchard -

On March 29 2021 Dr. Rochelle Walensky then Director of the US CDC reassured the American public and the world on MSNBC "Vaccinated people do...

Bryce Edwards: The Troubling report into Stuart Nash’s conflicts of interest

Bryce Edwards -

Maybe we’ve all got scandal fatigue. This is the best explanation for why there’s not more public and media concern in the wake of the...

Matt King responds to statement of DemocracyNZ ex-candidates, Steve Cranston speaks

Daily Telegraph NZ -

King spoke to Paul Brennan of Reality Check Radio this morning to give his side of the story. King said the catalyst for the walkout...

DemocracyNZ resignations: Ex-candidates release statement

Daily Telegraph NZ -

As reported yesterday, five candidates of the DemocracyNZ party tendered their resignations over the weekend. Four of them, Dr. Matt Shelton, Lee Smith, Kirsten Murfitt...

Five candidates resign from DemocracyNZ

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Party leader Matt King told supporters via a Facebook video that he will be making a statement on the walkout in the next few...

Meng Foon resigns as Race Relations Commissioner

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Foon today confirmed his intention to resign, following revelations in April that he and his family made donations to Labour MP Kiritapu Allan, including...

Bryce Edwards: Does Michael Wood have enough integrity to be a Minister?

Bryce Edwards -

New Zealanders are supposed to be able to trust that there are adequate systems in place to ensure our politicians aren’t corrupt. There are mandatory...

Hollow accolades

Mary Hobbs -

“Too often we honour swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives...

A proposal that would make us the Hermit Kingdom of the South Pacific

Louise M. Diack -

The Dept of Internal Affairs is proposing a new regulator of online content who can censor and penalise according to ill defined/subjective criteria. It's...

The King’s Birthday Honours List 2023 – Ardern becomes a dame

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The list of New Zealanders awarded honours for the King's Birthday 2023 follows. To be Additional Member of the Order of New Zealand Queen Camilla,...

How the US military-industrial complex has used think tanks to hijack EU policymaking

Glenn Diesen -

Masquerading as advisories, these organizations are really operating as lobby groups – and their influence is growing. Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga has warned that...

Letter to King Charles III

The Maori Government of Aotearoa Nu Tireni -

The Letter to King Charles III on His Coronation 6 May, 2023 is in celebration of the special relationship between two Sovereigns: The Rangatira...

Guy Hatchard: Inside the Covid Cult

Guy Hatchard -

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has announced that the incidence of atrial fibrillation has increased by 50% over the last decade. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is...

Politically Homeless – Nobody Someone new song about NZ Election 2023 released

Daily Telegraph NZ -

'We've got five parties of death currently sitting in The Beehive.' The hundreds-of-thousands of Kiwis who are currently disillusioned, need to vote strategically in the...

Regulations pave the way for first comprehensive digital Firearms Registry

Daily Telegraph NZ -

With the release today of the Arms Amendment Regulations enabling New Zealand’s first comprehensive digital Firearms Registry, licence holders can now see how the...

Jab safety and efficacy Royal Commission petition referred to Petitions Committee

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The petition was delivered to the House Clerk for presentation to Parliament today. Petition organiser Aly Cook told supporters in an email the petition was...

Roy Morgan Poll: National/ACT ahead of Labour/Greens, DemocracyNZ steady

Daily Telegraph NZ -

On today's results the Maori Party would likely hold the balance of power. Today's poll saw the National/ACT block (44.5%) ease slightly ahead of the...

IRD report shows wealthy NZers pay much lower tax rates than other earners

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Inland Revenue research released today reveals a large differential between the tax rates ordinary New Zealanders pay on their full income compared with the...

ANZAC Day – Lest We Forget

Mary Hobbs -

An open letter to all Members of Parliament. Dedicated to all who fought to retain the freedoms of our people and our country in...

Imagining a free country

Mary Hobbs -

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;...

Three Waters changes a ‘hollow rebrand’

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty has announced major changes to NZ's 'affordable water reforms' - The Waters today. In a press release he said the...

Royal Commission into Abuse in Care given extension to file report

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The Government has agreed to a request from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care for more time to deliver its final...

Bryce Edwards: The need to take disinformation seriously

Bryce Edwards -

Political deception is as old as politics itself. There have always been political actors who have attempted to twist and manipulate information. Sometimes this includes...

Cabinet changes bring ’50/50 gender split for the first time in NZ’s history’

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has announced his intention to promote Willow-Jean Prime to fill a vacancy in Cabinet, resulting in a 50/50 gender balance...

‘Disinformation Project’ researcher mass blocks Twitter users

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa has appeared on television and in print legacy media discussing misinformation / disinformation. Mulitple Twitter users have noticed Hattotuwa has blocked them...

DemocracyNZ makes gains in latest Taxpayers’ Union Curia poll

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The party registered 1.6% in April, up 1.1% on the previous poll. The result puts DemocracyNZ just 0.1% behind the New Conservatives, and double the...

Machiavelli and the Globalists: Why the elites despise independent thought

David McGrogan -

The most important two sentences in the history of political philosophy since the ancient Greeks appears towards the beginning of Machiavelli’s 'The Prince'. ‘ wise...

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