KW: A group called the Auckland Ratepayers Alliance has produced a document of startling alarm reproduced below. At a time whe so many people have suffered significant financial harm due to the lockdown, with business failure, bankruptcy and job losses this revelation shold be causing riots outside the Townhall. Chaired by a woman it has…

KW: No one really understood the emotions of what A nationwide LOCKDOWN would feel like but Prime Minister Jacinda Adern is winning praise for the way she has led New Zealand, yes even from Australia   As someone who researches and teaches leadership, I’d argue New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is giving most Western…

KW: New Zealanders in general (Maori and Pacific Islanders may disagree) have a healthy respect for the Police. However, if we observe trends globally if Police power is not strictly defined we see that granting police extraorinary powers has very harmful and detrimental results in almost 100% of instances becasue the part of the police…

KW: So here we have it, panic in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Probably rightly so too. But slashing interest rates at this time is going to do what? Encourage budding entrenprneurial business people to go out and borrow $500, 000 to buy a new Kenworth logging truck with the industry in chaos? Encourage…

KW: And now for some  left wing realignment   A political and policy issues blog. Source: Breaking Views: Karl du Fresne: The education system’s latest ideological project – the grooming of Greta Thunberg clones

KW: Todays announcement by National Party leader Simon Bridges that National will create a police “strike force unit to harass and disrupt gangs every single day” is breathtakingly stupid. Happily here in Hastings the local mayor Sandra Hazelhurst is showing more common sense when refuting the idea saying that more discussion in the community with…

KW: NZ’s place in the sun. Ridiculous statements on TV! news certainly caught my attention as well. New Zealand is home to over 200 bird species and most of them are unique to the north and south islands where they have lived for millions of years. But while the Dodo might be dead, modern day…

KW: I was somewhat skeptical at the beginning but it seemsJacinda  Aderns French journey and meeting with Macron has worked out better then anyone could have expected. There she is, a New Zeland Prime Minister on a world stage and gettting global recognition for doing something positive. It is quite unique! I have heard first…

KW: Is free speech now deemed hate speech in New Zealand someone asked? We need to be careful as while it is objectionable material and disgusting we don’t casue something we cherish to be lost in the noise. New Zealand’s chief censor has banned mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant’s white supremacist manifesto, as well as videos…