Tony Stuart

Bullying is a sad reality in our schools, workplaces, and online. Pink Shirt day is an important time to say that we won’t stand for it & that treating people with respect is a cornerstone value of our country. Don’t put up with bullying - talk to a friend, your union, or someone who will stand with you. Happy Pink Shirt day.

Labour: “You’ll never do it!” National: “Hold my beer….”

Only 1% cricket fans can recognise, who is running alongside Sir Viv Richards.. Can you guess name without the help of Google 👇

Very few will be able to recognize him… can you❓ Giving some hints. 👇 In the famous 1977 Centenary Test at Melbourne, he scored a swashbuckling 174 and, when dismissed…. cheekily imitated Greg Chappell’s distinctive walk back to the pavilion, right in front of the Australian crowd. He was a quirky, fidgety Nottinghamshire batsman and brilliant cover/slip fielder nicknamed "Rags".

Chris Hipkins flew into Auckland today claiming he wants to “unlock Auckland”. The irony is breathtaking. This is the very man who locked Auckland down in the first place, and the Royal Commission found he did so against public health advice. Aucklanders haven’t forgotten what that meant. They remember being locked out of saying goodbye to dying family members. They remember their kids shut out of classrooms. They remember the small businesses that closed their doors for good, the elective surgeries pushed back for months, and the spike in ram raids that happened because of a soft on crime approach. Our city is still bearing those scars. Yet Hipkins had the audacity to suggest today that it’s only Newstalk ZB who ever raise the lockdowns with him. That tells Aucklanders everything they need to know. He isn’t listening, he hasn’t learned, and he seems to think a huge chunk of this city simply doesn’t count. Newstalk ZB happens to be listened to by a great many Aucklanders, and those Aucklanders are the ones he is dismissing. Hipkins owes this city an explanation, not another flying visit and another spin line.

In government, Labour announced announcements. In opposition, they are planning to make plans. Still no detail or actual policy 🤷🏻‍♂️

And sure enough, Minto seems to be behind the new “Palestine free from the river to the sea” party, wanting to get enough members to be registered and keep Palestine a central issue in the elections. It wants to “dismantle the Zionist structure” and have a secular and democratic state, “with full and equal citizenship for all with ethnic and religious rights protected in a democratic constitution”, which would make it the first Arab state to do so.

Chris Hipkins fronting the media over the troll account run by a former staffer is anything but convincing. Last year, The Post reported Labour’s insistence that the account had no links to the party or its social media staff — a claim that’s utterly farcical. It was one of the worst-kept secrets in Labour Party circles.