Following the $100 fine on a Tawa resident (subsequently waived) for clearing sundry scrap items out of a car and into a council rubbish bin, it would appear that the next slogan to adorn our “Yeah, right” roadside hoardings will be “Be a Tidy Kiwi”.
The public should be told the name of the council wallah [...]
Our world… it’s being hijacked by the stupid and gullibleThe Greens have scored a perfect own goal with the title of their follow-up to Al Gore’s one-sided blockbuster movie. They’ve called it “The Age of Stupid”.
They could just as easily have chosen “The Age of Gullible” or “The Age of Politically Opportunist” as [...]
It’s sad, when you find a dead cigarette lighter in pristine native bush. Picture: the Studio at Dreamstime.comIt has been revealed that British American Tobacco is quietly sponsoring anti-littering group Keep New Zealand Beautiful to the tune of $300,000.
Naturally, this donation was immediately pounced on and condemned by false do-gooders. Cancer Society chief executive [...]
Well, we’re blown away! Somebody has just “discovered” that the so-called “smog” in Christchurch doesn’t appear to affect the health of young people. We’ll let these ground-breaking researchers into another secret: it doesn’t affect the health of anyone else either, other than those already suffering from respiratory diseases, because it’s not smog at all.
It’s harmless, [...]
The Labour-led Government pledges that all New Zealand waters will be “swimmable” within a generation. That is to say, by about 2030.
From this…What they seem to have forgotten is that New Zealand waters (with the exception of places like Nelson’s dreadful Tahunanui Beach, and other sewage-polluted beaches around the country) were almost all swimmable only [...]
Britain’s Mallard - Its wind-tunnel-tested, aerodynamic body allowed it to reach speeds of more than 160 kmh. Mallard was in service until 1963, when it was retired, having covered almost 2.4 million km (Picture – Wikipedia)Part of our $1.5 billion-plus train set includes the Railway Workshops, which the Government is promising to re-open – to [...]
It’s a dog’s life, but not in rural Kaikoura. Picture: FreefotoKaikoura District Council’s planning department has decreed that new lifestyle block owners must not own domestic pets. That means no cats or dogs that might wreak havoc on the local wildlife. The idiot responsible for this edict is either a recent arrival from Auckland – [...]
Biofuels are costing the EarthOur dairy farmers may be riding on the crest of a wave, but there is more than a hint of hypocrisy in the smug approach to dairying on the part of our politicians. Were it not for spiralling international prices for dairy products, New Zealand would be in an even more [...]
So the Government has banned all recreational fishing for blue cod in the Marlborough Sounds. This follows a ban on commercial blue cod catches. The Fisheries Ministry claims that recreational anglers are catching 150 tonnes of them every year, compared with the 70-tonne commercial quota. With a three-bag limit, there must be thousands and thousands [...]
Did you know that, to a small group of powerful alien beings, you are an insignificant fragment of something called The Human Capital Agenda?
Australian deputy PM Julia Gillard: Some say she came from Wales. Some say she came from Mars. All we know is that she’s called something unmentionableIt came as quite a shock to [...]
