Category: Guest Posts
“Let’s give power back to the people” was Winston's new populist slogan as he sets his sights on voters who feel alienated from Labour and alarmed by Labour's potential coalition partners. Winston Peters’ recent set-piece speech made a pitch to blue-collar workers who feel abandoned by Labour.
The focus of climate and disaster policy should shift from futile attempts to control natural variability to adaptive strategies that enhance resilience. Recognising the limitations of human influence over climate, resources should be directed toward strengthening infrastructure and community preparedness. It’s time to lift the burden from the minds of New Zealanders: there is no Climate Emergency and - along with Net Zero - it can be put to bed with Rip Van Winkle.
Over last 30 or 40 years judges across the common law anglosphere world have become ever more willing to overrule the democratically elected branches of government. Call this a raw usurpation of power. Or call it judicial activism on steroids. It’s bad in Australia, but worse in New Zealand.
Academic courses remain the mandatory gateway to careers in the media, and as long as journalism training is controlled by extreme leftist zealots and charlatans (for charlatans is what some of them are, in my opinion), the media industry has no prospect of ever regaining the respect and trust it commanded in the past.
We have faith in the capacity of Maori to strive and succeed in work and politics on the same basis as everyone else. I believe in New Zealanders fair mindedness that a minority no longer needs this protection from the majority. That's why National-led Government will abolish the Maori seats.
DOC administers one-third of New Zealand’s landmass. This estate has been held by the Crown on behalf of all New Zealanders for conservation, recreation, and public benefit. Over the past three decades, however, DOC has increasingly transformed from a public-oriented agency into a mechanism for embedding tribal control, preferential access, and commercial opportunity.
The effects-based approach that relied on the discretion of planning staff had become captured by vested interest groups intent on advancing their own political agendas or lining their own pockets, and that includes Maori who have latched onto the financial advantages of the special status successive governments have granted them under the pretence of a Treaty partnership.
Reform owes its success less to the efforts of the party itself – or even to the performance of its leader, Nigel Farage – than to this widespread, popular demand for change. A lot of people have been yearning for a movement that finally gives them a voice.
Why are our countries in such a dire mess? The left has been working on a 50-year campaign pushing neo-Marxist ideology - whether it is wokeism, transgenderism, Islamism, mass migration, net zero zealotry, Keynesian economics. And they have been utterly relentless in their pursuit of ideological dominance.
It cannot be too strongly emphasised that the body of the common law is predicated on the basis that it is written down in a form which is available to all New Zealand citizens and in that way is knowable in advance of any course of action on which a citizen intends to embark.
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