tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34287537561919131442024-03-19T16:52:34.152+13:00Breaking ViewsThe Breaking Views blog is administered by the New Zealand Centre for Political Research at NZCPR.com. The views expressed are those of the author alone. Muriel Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397599398767130816noreply@blogger.comBlogger11138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-10027294378761032322024-03-19T15:47:00.002+13:002024-03-19T15:47:32.838+13:00David Farrar: The Interislander incompetenceGeorgina Campbell reports:The Government's position on the mega ferries was reinforced this week after Marlborough Harbourmaster Jake Oliver set limits for the maximum size of new vessels using Tory Channel to access ports at Picton and Shakespeare Bay.The entrance to Tory Channel is narrow and tidal, making it challenging to navigate. The risk of an incident occurring increases with longer Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-51032903793902516352024-03-19T15:27:00.008+13:002024-03-19T15:27:41.243+13:00Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 19/3/24Bishop scores headlines with crackdown on unwelcome tenants – but Peters scores, too, as tub-thumper and diplomatHousing Minister Chris Bishop delivered news – packed with the ingredients to enflame political passions – worthy of supplanting Winston Peters in headline writers’ priorities.He popped up at the post-Cabinet press conference to promise a crackdown on unruly and antisocial state Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-9595916720025647472024-03-19T11:31:00.003+13:002024-03-19T11:31:44.445+13:00Mike's Minute: It was our fault Covid turned into a "thing"I watched an interview the other week with Marama Davidson. It came after the elevation of Chloe Swarbrick to the leadership. Davidson wasn’t at the press conference, Chloe told us, because it turns out she had Covid. In watching the interview, although Covid ridden, Davidson looked and sounded perfectly well, although she was isolating, which is what we do, isn't it?Well, some of us do. A friendGeoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-73893153694807962892024-03-19T11:20:00.003+13:002024-03-19T11:20:45.176+13:00Cam Slater: A Battle of Wits with an Unarmed ManChris Hipkins really is as politically stupid as he appears. In his infinite wisdom, he decided to have a battle of wits with Winston Peters, a battle that I might add he is singularly ill-equipped to deal with. But he went there.The New Zealand First leader and Cabinet minister delivered his State of the Nation speech yesterday.He took jabs at the previous government’s “race-based theory”, Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-52944094961989604072024-03-19T09:11:00.001+13:002024-03-19T09:11:06.582+13:00Tony Orman: Natural Climate ChangeAn article in a recent farming paper
entitled “Carbon Credits a Discredit” by Leo Cooney rekindled questions about
climate change, the ETS, indeed the whole matter of climate change formerly
known as global warming. There arises much confusion in the manipulation by
proponents of global warming to any modicum of thought and pondering.
I have pondered why the term "global warming” reverted
to "Muriel Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397599398767130816noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-59287610144361764642024-03-19T07:44:00.003+13:002024-03-19T07:44:54.859+13:00Brendan O'Neill: Fatah is right – Hamas is to blame for the war in GazaIt’s time we called out the woke left’s neo-imperial belief that Israel is to blame for everything.So, there you have it: Fatah is now taking a more grown-up line on the Gaza war than most of the woke left. Where Western radicals are still running around damning Israel as a uniquely barbaric state that is carrying out a genocidal pillage of Gaza, Fatah says that, actually, a certain terror army Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-24320311643289093802024-03-19T07:32:00.001+13:002024-03-19T07:32:17.357+13:00Ele Ludemann: Anti-social tenants no longer toleratedAnti-social tenants will no longer be tolerated in state houses:Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. . .“As part of Kāinga Ora’s focus on core functions we expect them to end their Sustaining Tenancies Framework, which hasGeoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-86381659646599140252024-03-19T07:09:00.006+13:002024-03-19T07:25:29.507+13:00David Farrar: Labour’s hysteriaNewshub reports:Chris Hipkins has doubled down on his accusation the Government is acting like a dictatorship.The labour leader took his troops on a soul-searching field trip today where one MP even momentarily likened the Coalition to russia's regime.Yep, Labour MPs are comparing the Government to Putin because it is using urgency to implement its election promises.Now one can have a rational Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-63804751483736470582024-03-19T07:01:00.003+13:002024-03-19T07:23:59.399+13:00Geoffrey Miller: Wang Yi’s perfectly-timed, Aukus-themed visit to New ZealandTiming is everything.And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment.The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017.Anniversaries are important to Beijing. It is more than just a happy coincidence that the visit is taking place during the tenth anniversary year of the signing of a Comprehensive Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-89918236783806960652024-03-19T04:47:00.000+13:002024-03-19T04:47:18.505+13:00Breaking Views Update: Week of 17.3.24
Tuesday March 19, 2024
News:Tiaki Taonga - Protecting taonga Māori That question is at the heart of the groundbreaking WAI 262 claim. The claim was lodged at the Waitangi Tribunal in 1991 by six claimants on behalf of six iwi - Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa and Ngātiwai from Northland, Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu from the East Coast and Ngāti Koata from the top of the South Island.WAI Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-72497452574959491252024-03-19T02:30:00.001+13:002024-03-19T02:30:00.143+13:00Bob McCoskrie: The child transgender agenda is crumblingIt was a good week for biology, the medical profession and children with gender dysphoria last week. The narrative that children can change their sex with the aid of social transitioning, puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, chest binders and tucking is exploding before our eyes. Around the world, medical professionals are finally waking up to a radical activist experiment on our most vulnerableGeoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-79088536689936106112024-03-19T02:20:00.001+13:002024-03-19T02:20:00.137+13:00Kerre Woodham: Do you really expect tax cuts?I wanted to get into this on Friday when the IRD released it’s figures about the online gambling tax, and we were overrun by events. So, let's have a look at this today for the first hour at least because the Government books are open, the numbers have been crunched, and reality is starting to bite.The size of Grant Robertson's hole has been revealed, and the optimistic numbers National was Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-30849601142694955752024-03-19T02:10:00.001+13:002024-03-19T02:10:00.141+13:00Brendan O'Neill: Ireland and the terrible truth about wokenessIreland’s latest referendum exposed just how zealous and reckless the elites’ culture war has become.Hands down my favourite part of the referendum revolt in Ireland last week was the discovery of ‘miraculous medals’ among the ballot papers.A miraculous medal is a small pendant that features the Blessed Virgin. Normally, she’s shown crushing a serpent beneath her feet. They’re devotional Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-31664199270324066392024-03-19T02:00:00.001+13:002024-03-19T02:00:00.147+13:00 Monday March 18, 2024 ⇩Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-930463656250184772024-03-18T16:01:00.007+13:002024-03-18T16:01:44.061+13:00Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 18/3/24Peters holds his ground on co-governance, but Willis wriggles on those tax cuts and SNA suspension looks like a SNAFUHere’s hoping for a lively post-cabinet press conference when the PM and – perhaps – some of his ministers tell us what was discussed at their meeting today.Until then, Point of Order has precious little Beehive news to report after its latest monitoring of the government’s Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-39130159135084520802024-03-18T14:05:00.001+13:002024-03-18T14:05:14.339+13:00Clive Bibby: Apocalypse NowFirst
the bad news.
As a species, we
appear to be at a stage where a number of international conflicts that have the
capacity to involve the whole world are the precursor to a war that could
destroy us all.
The Nuclear option
in the hands of maniacs who have no sense of humanity in the way they promote
their own selfish interests is an alarming, undeniable feature of what is at
stake here on Muriel Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397599398767130816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-16581790854667010962024-03-18T13:40:00.001+13:002024-03-18T13:40:19.043+13:00Caleb Anderson: Questions Over the Separation of Church and StateThought that maybe we had
separation of religion and state in New Zealand?
This is sent as part of an
information pack by one of our tertiary institutions seeking workplace
experience for their students:
“The cloak of the creator,
the cloak of peace has been spread upon us. Ranginui above, Papatūānuku below.
The people in between in
the midst of that greatest of things. Love. This is a Muriel Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397599398767130816noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-50342864626055191402024-03-18T13:30:00.002+13:002024-03-18T15:15:42.308+13:00NZCPR Newsletter: A Media ResetThe declining fortunes of the mainstream media has been dominating the news over recent weeks. The industry is waning, and the weaker players are facing closure. While this is grim for those who face job loss and financial uncertainty, there’s not a lot of public sympathy for the media sector these days. And, if we have a quick look back, it’s not hard to see why. A standout occurrence was theMuriel Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397599398767130816noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-26732175136118687932024-03-18T11:54:00.001+13:002024-03-18T11:54:34.257+13:00Gary Judd KC: On Judicial Imperialismwhy judges must ‘stay in their lane’Provoked by the Supreme Court’s decision in Smith v Fonterra and others [2024] NZSC 5, Professor James Allan, Garrick Professor of Law at the University of Queensland, a Canadian who taught law at Otago University for 11 years before moving across the ditch, has published “New Zealand’s imperial judiciary Who gave them the power? They did” in Spectator Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-57991141621196088832024-03-18T11:35:00.002+13:002024-03-18T11:35:13.988+13:00Simon O'Connor: NZ's Chat with China this weekA few notes for NZ's foreign minister as he prepares to meet his CCP counterpart this week. With trade always so dominant, I thought it would be useful to refresh the memory of a few other matters.Dear WinstonAs we now all know, China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, is visiting New Zealand and Australia this week. As our biggest trading partner, it is vitally important New Zealand engage Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-20303951230928439232024-03-18T11:28:00.001+13:002024-03-18T11:28:29.236+13:00Sir Bob Jones: The Golriz Ghahraman caseRegarding the Golriz drama the NZ Herald quoted a Wellington clinical psychologist, Dr Dougal Sutherland, ungrammatically saying, “If there is an irrational behaviour it suggests that perhaps all is not well”.Try it again Dougal without the “an”. More important, wake up about the physical nature of the human body.We have two counteracting brain lobes, one delivering emotion, the other Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-43929098728930464572024-03-18T11:19:00.001+13:002024-03-18T11:19:06.411+13:00Ele Ludemann: Black week for GreensLast week was a black one for the Green Party.One of its former MPs, Golriz Ghahraman, was in court where she entered a guilty plea to shoplifting and one of its new MPs, Darleen Tana, has been accused of migrant exploitation.The party isn’t responsible for the actions of either woman but it is responsible for the way it handled both cases, and that’s badly.This is twice that the party knew aboutGeoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-80110428132702492262024-03-18T11:13:00.000+13:002024-03-18T11:13:13.284+13:00David Farrar: Labour's final report cardWe now have almost all 2023 data in, which has allowed me to update my annual table of how Labour went against its promises. this is basically their final report card.Click to viewSo in summary:* Labour achieved 2% of their Kiwibuild target* Labour achieved 4% of their billion trees target* Labour achieved 16% of their emissions free government vehicles target* Labour pledged got end homelessnessGeoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-49280772507982548812024-03-18T10:55:00.003+13:002024-03-18T10:55:48.755+13:00Professor Robert MacCulloch: Government House refurbishmentIn Wellington's crazy world of wastage, no money could be found to do up Government House, right? Wrong.The derelict state of the Prime Minister's Official Residence on Tinakori Road in Wellington has been blamed on conservative government finances. We were told it would have been too much of an extravagance to spend a million bucks making it fit as a place where the PM could work and use for Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428753756191913144.post-89989289205031639972024-03-18T10:47:00.002+13:002024-03-18T10:47:42.633+13:00Mike's Minute: The Significant Natural Areas decision is a reliefOf all the things that the new Government has done in their first 100 days, the Significant Natural Areas decision might just have brought the most relief. It's not a major issue in the cities, but in rural New Zealand it has been a nightmare.It is like so many other ideas that on a piece of paper might have had some merit. But once out in the field it caused harm, worry and upset as officials Geoff Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201408777980995521noreply@blogger.com1