Category: Guest Posts
National wants economic growth. Opening up the agricultural sector to less regulated gene editing and the more wholesale use of GMO’s could be a quick way to get quantum leaps in production. But there are no guarantees and the evidence for increased production from gene manipulation is scant. Yet the changes are being hustled through.
Nicola Willis described Budget 2025 as a “No BS” Budget. That’s true, to the extent that it lacked the stratospheric BS that characterised the political spin of the Ardern/Robertson budgets. That was the good news. The not-so-good news is that the budget lacked substance and was devoid of the economic reform that this country needs to reverse its long-term economic decline. It tinkered with the problem.
The current welfare system has over the years piled mountains of debt onto the shoulders of today’s children and young people, who as a result, should be marching in the streets in protest. The crisis of New Zealand’s unfunded obligations is about to hit us hard. .
The Minister of Education, Erica Stanford is determined to introduce a knowledge rich curriculum for all New Zealand students. It is a standardised curriculum which ensures that students across the country receive the same high-quality knowledge consisting of academic subjects with content selected for its value and justified for its veracity.
The Court’s role is to interpret and apply the law as Parliament has enacted it, not to substitute its own judgment for that of elected representatives. As the UK Supreme Court has shown, respect for democracy demands judicial discipline, not activism.
Proposed Treaty of Waitangi-related work by the Coalition Government includes: a review of treaty clauses in 28 laws, a law change to refocus the Waitangi Tribunal back to its original intent, and a decision on where to next for the Marine and Coastal Area Act after a 2024 Supreme Court decision to ease concerns about a tribal takeover of the entire coast.
We now have a clearer picture of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and how they will affect other trading nations. The “reciprocal” tariffs are designed to impose charges on other countries equivalent to half the costs they supposedly inflict on US exporters through tariffs, currency manipulation and non-tariff barriers levied on US goods.
As our mothers will have told us this as we stood staring in to fridge looking for something which is under our nose but often when simple truths are staring us in the face we look the other way rather than face them. Such is happening today on a massive scale threatening to undermine our democracy and our way of life.
Nothing we do can change the climate because India and China are burning vast amounts of coal and, anyway, real world evidence tells us that man-made global warming appears to be the biggest hoax in the history of the world. Trump and Badenoch have given up on net zero and we should do the same.
It is hard to believe, now, that the conservation movement was once a power in New Zealand. Alas, the wokesters are now in charge. Do they not keep up with the news? The Age of Woke is over. All over the western world, ordinary decent people are finally rebelling against the smug complacent intolerant arrogance of ruling elites.
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