Centrist: Almost traitorous’ - Laws slams Claire Charters....

Almost traitorous’: Laws slams Claire Charters for inviting UN to investigate ‘racist’ New Zealand

Michael Laws has accused leading Māori academics of “almost traitorous” behaviour after they told the UN that New Zealand is a racist, backwards regime guilty of cultural genocide.

Laws called the claims “a woeful and appalling misrepresentation of equality and democracy.”

Centrist: Why is New Zealand sticking to UN climate rules when everyone else is walking away?

Nearly every major country ignored the UN’s February deadline to submit new emissions-reduction plans—except for New Zealand and a handful of others.

While global powers like China, India, and the EU delayed or outright ignored the requirement, New Zealand lined up with just nine other nations to comply.

Lushington Brady: Pauline Kicks the Rat’s Nest Again

Calls for Australia to quit the WHO.

Good old Pauline – she never fails to put a rocket up the b*****rds.

This time, in a move sure to set the chattering classes shrieking and clutching for their pearls, she’s urging Australia to follow US President Donald Trump’s lead and ditch the venal WHO.

Lindsay Mitchell: Most open and transparent govt ever

Most open and transparent government ever. That's what the Prime Minister, who charged herself with bettering outcomes for NZ children, promised. 

I monitor the Ministry of Social Development's website daily.

Today the following notice appeared:

Every five years, New Zealand reports to the United Nations about what they are doing to make sure children’s rights are met. 

The government has apparently prepared a response and says:

We would like your feedback on how well the Government has responded to the issues raised by the Committee.

Kelvin Duncan: The UN Compact on Migration

The UN Compact on Migration hasn’t raised the amount of discussion it warrants and this is a major concern as it contains some quite unacceptable requirements to which we must simply not agree. Admittedly, there it contains some good ideas, including sharing information between nations, although I believe all decent countries already do this.

A number of countries have already refused to sign, but they have been labelled as right-wing by the Compact's proponents, which is quite unfair in my opinion.

Why am I concerned that we must not sign it? Haven’t we have been assured by Mr Winston Peters that the previous National Government started the process (not true, they did not determine the content of the Compact as implied by Peters during Question Time in the House), and that there is nothing to see here, so move on and trust us.

NZCPR Weekly: Legitimising Illegal Migration

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This week we outline the United Nation’s radical plan to legitimise illegal migration and we call on the Government to walk away from this global compact, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Judith Bergman shares her critical analysis of the deal, and our poll asks whether you think New Zealand should sign the United Nation’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

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Matt Ridley from the UK: The EU versus the UN - who makes the rules?

In today’s speech on the European Union, previewed in this morning’s Times, Owen Paterson, the former environment secretary, will make a surprising and telling point.

It is that many of the rules handed down to British businesses and consumers by Brussels have often (and increasingly) been in turn handed down to it by higher powers. This means, he argues, that we would have more influence outside the EU than within it. We could rejoin some top tables.

One example is the set of rules about food safety: additives, labelling, pesticide residues and so on. The food rules that Britain has to implement under the EU’s single market are now made by an organisation that sounds like either a Vatican secret society or a Linnean name for a tapeworm: Codex Alimentarius. Boringly, it’s actually a standard-setting commission, based in Rome.

Ron Smith: The Future of Syria

There is an overwhelming suspension of disbelief in the bulk of public comment on what is presently happening in Syria. We have now had more than twelve months of political action from the overwhelming non-Alawite population, which has been countered with increasing ferocity by government forces, using heavy weaponry. The insurgents have responded with progressively increasing violence themselves and despite heavy civilian losses (perhaps up to 15,000 over the 12 month period), there is no sign that they will give up.

In this context it must be asked, what is the point of the of the much-trumpeted United Nations cease-fire initiative, apart from a need to be seen to be ‘doing something’? Already, for reasons that are obvious, the cease-fire is failing.