NZCPR Weekly: Dangerous Agendas

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This week, we look into the statue controversy and other dangerous agendas being progressed under the cloak of recent protests, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Melanie Phillips warns that the refusal of society’s leaders to defend western culture is threatening our future, and our poll asks whether you support the removal of colonial era statues, street and community names deemed by some to be ‘offensive’.

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Frank Newman: Straight Talk - Hamilton or Kirikiriroa?

National MP Todd Muller is showing his true worth as a leader of the Party. In a speech at the Te Puna Rugby Club on the weekend he has added his thoughts to the debate about the removal of the Captain Hamilton statue. 

That statue of course was removed at the initiative of Hamilton's first term Mayor, Paula Southgate, after a Maori sovereignty activist threatened to deface it. Presumably the Black Lives Matter protests presented the perfect opportunity for him to do so again, having already defaced it in 2018.

Here's what Mr Muller is reported to have said: "It's not for a leader of a political party to say what statue goes or stays…One of the strengths of our country is we are able to have the capacity for conversations like this."

Great to have that cleared up!