Law and order. Does anyone have access to National Party manifesto/election commitments over the last 70 years regarding their intentions to get tough on/stamp out crime? And does anyone have the figures to show that, with all their time occupying the ...
my apologies.
...-17-08-2022/#comment-1906261 logie97 sent me an e-mail...
Law and Order. Has anyone asked Mitchell if he will pursue the white-collar criminals as strongly as he will the Gangs and violent offenders. I understand that a former prime minister has just been found guilty of a crime and is up for a $5 million penalty...
Yes - Blunt and concise speak works. Remember the "Decent Ordinary Bloke" from Muldoon. He captured the heart of New Zealand - it covered a multitude of opinions.
Yeah I have just reread your link and my comment - Key's initial denial and then convoluted description of events. And as for "higherstandards" comment - you are perhaps deluded if you think the former PM is not still floating around behind the scenes. And...
Interesting to see a former PM demonstrating his "being economical with the truth" skills. This latest episode trying to cover for his business partner and son. Apparently Max was in potentially serious trouble with the law. When Stuff contacted Joky Hen ...
Your comments would be worth reading if you stopped the hyperbole. The country is not falling apart. That line has been trotted out since nations existed. In New Zealand we get it chanted every three years leading up to and then from immediately after each...
Labour's Nash lobbying and the National/Act faux outrage. It may have been discussed here previously. The conservative parties in the world are totally beholden to their lobbyists. Big business, farming etc. I would venture to suggest that the current ...
Oh please!!! Education Chris Hipkins advised last week that a significant change will be announced on Monday regarding class sizes in the middle/intermediate school age group. "... the class size will reduce from 29 to 28." I can hear the cries of joy from...
That sketch on the terraces is so apt for these times. I am sure that the fundamentalist right in the USA would love to use it in their promotions. However, because they would be giving exposure to "The Life of Brian" (otherwise banned from viewing amongst...
I subscribe to the RNZ daily newsletter. I have tried to provide the link but apparently my browser does not support "paste" So here is the whole article Mōrena, Chris Hipkins' first big meetings as prime minister are a series of charm offensives with ...
From RNZ this morning - Hipkins meeting the Auckland Chamber of Commerce It's music to the ears of former political rival Simon Bridges, now Auckland Business Chamber CEO, who said it'll give business "some confidence", and that Hipkins was "off to a good ...
I think the word "division" is used rather too liberally. It gives the impression that half of New Zealand were anti-mandate rather than a very small but vocal minority - who unfortunately were given oxygen by the media to appear to make a divided society....
SUVs no longer unaffordable for those desperately troubled Groundswell gentlemen? I may have misunderstood a recent advertising campaign but it would appear that the Triton (Mitsubishi) is being offered with the surcharge being paid for them by MMC. Now ...
... thank you o learned one. You clearly know the risk potential better than most regarding what is coming out of China. I am so reassured. Strangely, I am one of the few who still wears a mask whenever in shops and closed spaces. This is not about ...
Covid indecision In 2020 the authorities appeared in control and decisive and the Labour government was rewarded with a landslide election victory. Here we are almost three years later with a similarly perceived threat from open borders with Chinese ...
...also important to look at the state of New Zealand in 1867 compared with 1840. Many landless and demoralised people.
History tells us that Te Reo Maori was not the only language that Westminster/colonial governments have tried to eradicate. And the first language in the 1840's was Te Reo Maori. Just over Offasdyke the English punished the speaking of the local language. ...
Bloody hell, Rob's Mob just won't let it go will they. https://www.teaomaori.news/dame-naida-glavish-country-made-kia-ora-acceptable ts - if you are really disturbed by the infusion of Te Reo into everyday life in New Zealand yet are genuinely keen to ...
I made the mistake of visiting TheDailytelegraph.co.nz this morning. It would appear to be the voice of the conspiracy theorists/voices for freedom. The link was via something outrageous that Liz Gunn said last year. It should not come as a surprise though...
Problems for dairy owners. If they were to stop selling tobacco products, would they be such targets of robberies? And the ram-raid in Christchurch on the gun shop. What if all gun-shops were required to moved their premises as close as possible to police ...
Did anyone else notice the Stuff headline earlier this morning. (N.B. appears to have been taken down now as the editor may have thought better). Words along the lines "Jacinda Adern to meet partying Finnish PM.". I didn't realise that our papers had sunk ...
We received an email petition from Kaushall via Change.org. How did he get our email address? The petition itself was full of political rhetoric.
Ex military and perfed policemen. We hear of (usually after a serious event) that former NZ servicemen or police have been involved as independents (or even as contractors/advisers) in trouble spots around the world. Some have gone in, made a fortune (...
Agree 100 pcnt Pat - see my comment 5.2 above. And as an aside, many of our nation of sports followers appear to ignore the fact that "our girls" won against an opposition of 14 players for approaching two thirds of the game. It was however an entertaining...
If the women can manage a spirited performance on the money they are paid then it points to the obscenity that is the remuneration for their male counterparts and athletes in all sporting forms - the ultimate being the Saudi financed golfing circus. I ...
Aren't our public services all crying out for recruitment drives, training, and more money. Why aren't Labour promising big payments to these sections (Health/education/security etc...). They have 9 months 'til the election. Let's see the Right try to claw...
When The Herald and Stuff were just hard copy, if you wanted to comment on an article you wrote a letter to the editor. The letter had to be signed with an address supplied. How many of the comments would be made if the commenters had to identify who they ...
At the beginning of the week, when the government announced the farm charges on emissions Luxon appeared to be fence sitting, but when Federated Farmers /Hoggard spouted opposition, Luxon became more forceful. He could hardly have a compromised ...
with due respect, a divided nation is usually defined as split in two. (not small factions) 1970s/80s- the pro/anti nuclear. 1970s/1981 - anti-apartheid NZRFU - 1951 water front dispute. As for the false confidence - I have not been down the rabbit holes ...
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