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Looks like Luxon is suddenly listening to the grumpy old men and now caught up with what happened in the UK and Australia. He is now going to toughen up on immigration. Must have been worried Act and NZ First were going to steal more votes. He really is the David Brent of NZ politics. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

Judges shouldn’t get to rewrite climate law from the bench. ACT is stopping climate lawfare. Mark Cameron's Member’s Bill would go further by stopping councils from using the RMA to wage their own climate crusades.

CONVICTED CRIMINAL INFLUENCING NZ IMMIGRATION POLICY This is deeply concerning. Why is Immigration Minister Erica Stanford meeting with a convicted criminal to discuss immigration policy? Daljit Singh was convicted in the Auckland High Court over electoral fraud linked to the 2010 Auckland Super City local body elections involving forged documents. He has been a New Zealand Sikh Society spokesman and chairman of the Supreme Sikh Council of NZ. He has also been publicly linked to allegations surrounding an immigration job-selling scam in 2017. He has also links to individuals involved in serious criminal offending, including importing meth. Mate… this guy appears seriously crooked. Yet somehow, ordinary Kiwis raising concerns about mass immigration can’t even get a meeting with Ministers. But according to Singh himself, he met with Erica Stanford to discuss three immigration policy changes currently being considered by policymakers. He claims he knows the Minister well and is close to her. Why are individuals with these kinds of backgrounds being given influence and access over New Zealand’s immigration settings? He’s also states he is attempting to pressure the Race Relations Commissioner over what he claims is growing “hate” toward people like himself. Well, I’ve got news for Mr Singh... It is NOT hate when Kiwis want to protect their country from foreign criminals entering New Zealand. It is NOT hate when New Zealanders want to preserve the Kiwi way of life instead of watching the country turn into an unrecognisable multicultural melting pot. It is NOT hate to raise concerns about the flood of immigration, the great population replacement, and the pressure it is placing on our nation. It is NOT hate to point out the impacts mass immigration is having on overcrowded hospitals, classrooms, housing, and Auckland traffic congestion. It is NOT hate to defend Christianity as New Zealand’s founding faith and question why foreign religions are increasingly parading through our streets while Christianity is pushed aside. And let me make something very clear. I do not resort to childish racial insults or cheap slogans like “butter chicken tsunami” or “two Wongs don’t make a white” like same politicians we know. That sort of rhetoric cheapens the debate and allows the real serious issues to be dismissed. My concerns are about immigration policy, national identity, infrastructure pressure, law and order, social cohesion, and protecting the Kiwi way of life. New Zealanders should be able to discuss those issues openly and honestly without immediately being smeared as “racist” or “hateful". Christopher Luxon claims the Government has “tightened” immigration settings over the past two years. Yeah right. Pull the other one. I’ve personally asked to meet with Ministers…including Luxon himself…to discuss concerns many New Zealanders have about mass immigration. Apparently they’re always too busy. But somehow, if you’ve got a sword and wearing a turban, doors suddenly open. Unbelievable. This is the massive failing of this coalition government. Luxon, Seymour and Winston are useless when it comes to sorting out immigration. They should all be kicking Erica's door down and asking serious questions. Are foreign interests now influencing New Zealand’s immigration policies behind closed doors?

@henrycooke 😂😂 two days ago he said that the anti immigration backlash was just from a few grumpy people on social media. He’s a clown and is just giving lip service. None of his actions can back up what he is dribbling now.

DEFINITELY TIME…to get New Zealand out of the Paris Agreements. We should in fact be requiring a refund of New Zealand Taxpayers money fraudulently obtained! @chrisluxonmp @NZNationalParty @dbseymour @actparty @winstonpeters @mangonui08 @nzfirst

The Minister was pleased to meet the United States Assistant Secretary of State, Michael DeSombre, in Wellington. They discussed: -Broad-ranging US/New Zealand bilateral cooperation; -Our shared interests & respective engagement in the Pacific Islands region; -The conflict in the Middle East, including its impacts in NZ and across the Pacific, and efforts to bring about a negotiated solution; and -Recent developments and upcoming high-level engagements in the Indo-Pacific. @USAsiaPacific @NZembassyUS @usembassynz @USAmbNZ

Insults will not undermine the resolve of your champions, New Zealand First

@TheConsultant18 @EricaStanfordMP @NZNationalParty Why is NZ's immigration minister holding policy meetings with an Indian fraudster and election rigger? Why does this man have 'partner' access to the minister, and why does he believe he has policy input? @nzfirst @actparty @winstonpeters

Word to the wise: If you are going to have a mad tanty in the ladies, after sculling three cocktails at the bar, screaming down the phone with expletives, while attending a conference, make sure the adjacent stalls are vacant before you start slagging off your coalition partner. Just saying. #iykyk

Hipkins lied. Surely not…..

Government moves to block private climate lawsuits against companies. Goldsmith says courts are not the place for this. Good. The ETS and Parliament already set the rules. Activists trying to create a parallel legal regime just got told no. devdiscourse.com/article/law-or…

It is next level petty for media to use a photo of me that is about 8 or 9 years old when I have lost more than 60kg. Really mature, guys.

Yep, you're looking at two left wing liars, but they're not the only people to blame for Australia's parlous condition. There are three other groups- 1) The gullible fools who voted them into power 2) The Liberal party that refused to offer any real opposition in the last election and 3) The legacy media who wouldn't tell the voters who they really are. Chalmers and Albanese are career Communists who have always cloaked who they really are. Neither the opposition Liberal party nor the legacy media ever called them out on this deceit.

If ever there were a pictoral definition of IRONY this is it. A total immersion Māori Cafē (a French word) advertising for staff who can only speak Māori in that 'cafē in 100% English. You simply can't make this virtue signaling woke shit up. Embarrassing!

Luxon committed to doubling NZs defence spending to ensure we can meaningfully contribute to shared security goals of our allies, and to continuing to build a “latticework” of trade and security agreements, like the India FTA, that build “depth and resilience” for NZ.

brashandmitchell.com/post/gary-judd… "UNDRIP’s inclusion in the FTA was not publicly apparent until the treaty text was finally presented to Parliament last month. This matters because UN General Assembly declarations are generally non-binding. That was one reason the Key government was able to minimise the significance of endorsing UNDRIP in 2010. A treaty is different. Treaties create binding obligations in international law. As Article 26 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969 puts it: “Every treaty in force is binding upon the parties to it and must be performed by them in good faith.” Once ratified, the India FTA will bind New Zealand and India in international law. That is why the affirmation of UNDRIP is not trivial. It takes language from a non-binding declaration and places it inside a binding treaty. Some may say this changes little because India is unlikely ever to pressure New Zealand to comply with UNDRIP. But that misses the real point. If it truly changed nothing, it would not be there. The obvious reason for including it is not trade with India but politics within New Zealand. A trade agreement is being used to advance a domestic constitutional and political agenda. That is an abuse of the treaty-making process. A provision with no real trade function, but clear ideological value at home, has no legitimate place in an FTA. Once this affirmation is in a ratified treaty, it will inevitably be invoked inside New Zealand as proof that the country is committed to UNDRIP in a serious and operative way, not merely in some airy symbolic sense. Lawyers, activists and judges will be invited to treat it as yet another marker of state commitment. To dismiss that as mere technicality would be naive."

This is a very good question

Thank you, Judith 💙

Oh, the irony. And of course while they attack @aniobrien, who puts her name to her work, we learn that a former Labour staff member attacks Christopher Luxon from behind a pseudonym, and that Chris Hipkins knows who they are. Hypocrisy much?

Just think how 'disruptive", it is pissing $30 billion you brrowed & printed up the wall with absolutely nothing to show for it! Wanker. 'It will be very disruptive': Robertson on scrapping of fees-free policy rnz.co.nz/news/political…