Category: Social Issues
Last month’s Roy Morgan poll delivered a warning to National - and its Coalition supporters. It showed support for National had dropped 4.5 points to 26.5 percent - its lowest level since the last election. National’s representation in Parliament would fall from 49 seats to just 33. That loss of 16 seats, would take out all five list MPs - Nicola Willis, Paul Goldsmith...
“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.
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.
The BBC’s crisis serves to remind us that credible media isn’t a luxury – it’s a democratic necessity. We should not have to put up with biased media. Journalism should be independent, impartial, and balanced. Their mission should be to inform, not manipulate.
And by the way, as a member of the media, my faith in the BBC has been really eroded by what's just happened - not just because they sliced together two pieces of Trump's speech to make him say something he didn't say, but because they knew it and sat on it for so long.
With clear evidence that children from single parent households are more likely to be poor, drop out of school, and suffer from health and emotional problems, it is shameful that a disastrous policy that leaves children vulnerable to serious harm, is still in place
Paying able-bodied people to stay at home and not earn their living is probably the biggest social miscalculation of the last sixty years. Unwinding it won’t be easy. There will be howls of outrage led by those who farm poverty.
The cultural takeover has now reached the point where grassroots New Zealand needs to again be mobilised. We need to send a strong message to central government that New Zealanders have had enough. We can do that in a number of ways, but the most urgent is to vote “No” to Maori wards in the October local body elections.
How has it come to pass that even an English-style “prep” school is in such obvious denial of its own heritage? What kind of societal pressure has led to such a school’s adopting a false Maori “persona”? And what does this signify in terms of the direction in which our country is heading?
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