Come here, big boy and get the chopReal Kiwi blokes don’t do proper haircuts. The rate of inflation at the hairdresser since 2003 has dramatically outstripped the rest of the cost of living - and men have responded in a simple, commonsense way. Instead of getting a trim every four weeks, they put it off [...]
Now we have proof that government in New Zealand does not work, and it came from the mouths of our governors. Despite the obscene amounts of taxation thrown at it, our Labour-misled Government is unable to include a simple referendum question in this year’s election process.
The question, of course, is:
“Should a smack as part of [...]
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 [...]
The prognosis is not good at Hawke’s Bay DHB - picture by Ben EarwickePeople who don’t believe in democracy have a habit of re-writing history. Stalin and Mao Tse-tung spring immediately to mind. Perhaps that’s why the government-appointed new Hawke’s Bay District Health Board has done something that otherwise defies rational explanation. They’ve taken down [...]
In New Zealand, the high and mighty ignore the low and powerless. (Image by Freefoto.com) There cannot be a civil society unless it is governed by people who accept that their power relies first and foremost on protecting their citizens. This is the primary duty of any government and it extends far beyond defending people [...]
The airwaves are packed with commercials made by uncreative, overpaid people who persuade silly clients to spend large amounts of money inflicting baffling ads on innocent viewers who just tuned in to see something interesting. Admittedly, some commercials are better than the programmes they separate, but most of them insult our intelligence.
Here are some recent [...]
It is said that if you point a finger at someone, there will be at least three pointing back at you. This is usually a reliable yardstick but the rule does not apply if you are Sarah Barnett, a columnist writing the trendy Ecologic article in the New Zealand Listener about an environmental documentary broadcast [...]
A sick, 61-year-old former missionary is brutally beaten for no apparent reason at a bus stop in a “safe” area of Auckland, and slowly dies.
An old farmer in a remote part of Hawke’s Bay is shot dead at dawn by a killer with a high-powered rifle. There is only one escape route for the [...]
In New Zealand, there is a grandly named body called the Advertising Standards Authority. New Zealand is fond of creating grandly named but impotent bodies to investigate serious problems, either real or imagined (but usually imagined).
Their highly rewarded members then spend vast amounts of public funds on the final report, but usually achieve little [...]
