Media Release National Party National’s firearms policy will make New Zealanders safer, while ensuring that responsible Kiwis can use firearms for legitimate reasons, National’s Paul Goldsmith, Mark Mitchell and Todd McClay say. “Firearms are important for many people, particularly in … Continue reading
by Lois Willams on “Newsroom (abridged) Neglected, overgrown and hazardous walking and biking tracks are raising concerns on the West Coast writes Lois Williams in “Newsroom.” “Rumblings of discontent are growing over the state of popular walking tracks on the … Continue reading
Extract from recent Taxpayers’ Union Newsletter Hopping mad: COVID-19 funding to ‘destroy’ wallabies for $153,000 a pop After almost six months’ worth of excuses, transfers and extensions on an Official Information Act request sent back in November, your humble Taxpayers’ Union has revealed … Continue reading
Media release The Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) has today called for Anzac Day services with ceremonial gun salutes to be exempt from new firearm event fees proposed by Police. Last year Police proposed new fees for events where … Continue reading
by Tony Orman The headlines in the “Dominion/Post” of 27 October 2006, screamed “Hungry caterpillars strip beech forests.” Underneath the big words was a photo of the d’Urville Valley in the Nelson Lakes National Park and further below, the report … Continue reading
Opinion by Charlie Baycroft People that hunt, fish and own firearms are being discriminated against and disadvantaged because they will not become politically active and involved in electing effective representatives to speak for them in their government.Let us call these people … Continue reading
Opinion by Lew Hore The news about a rise in firearm crimes as reported in the “Otago Daily Times” 12 April, 2023 suggests that undemocratically rushed government measures following the tragic Mosque shooting by the Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant in March … Continue reading
Press release by Department of Conservation The Department of Conservation is updating accommodation prices for huts, lodges, some campsites, the West Coast’s Paparoa Track, and off-season rates for some Great Walk huts. The new prices will be applied for the 2023/24 booking year, from 1 … Continue reading
A Thought by Ben Hope One wee vale of a valley I used to hunt was frequently rotary-hoed by wild pigs. Now there is an intense dislike of wild pigs by just about everyone. But what I noticed as pigs … Continue reading
Last week, the Police Association refused to publish an article by COLFO which detailed objections to the fees and has since run in the “New Zealand Herald”. The article cites a January briefing to the Police Minister which warned that … Continue reading
Opinion by Tony Orman Jacinda Ardern has just been been appointed a trustee of the Prince of Wales’ prestigious environment award, “The Earthshot Prize” created by Prince William to fund projects that aim to save the planet. Prince William was … Continue reading
“The Government’s proposed changes to firearms licensing regulations are insulting to hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Kiwis,” says ACT’s Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “An increase from $126.50 to $625.60 for a new five year firearms licence is proposed … Continue reading
Opinion by Paul Revere Many believe – among them ecologists – believe the world is beset with a massive extinction, the sixth mass extinction which comprises the five previous catastrophic events over the past 600 million years, during which … Continue reading
by Dr Jo Pollard (BSc (Hons), PhD) “You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back” (Horace, Roman poet, 65-8 BC). For decades now, DoC (NZ’s Department of Conservation) has been finding that nature is … Continue reading
Opinion by Laurie Collins It is accepted that a good proportion off New Zealanders are opposed to 1080 poison used as an “animal control” tool in New Zealand. Not mentioned is the carbon footprint associated with an aerial drop of … Continue reading
The newly-minted Police Minister, Ginny Andersen, has been called on by the Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) to investigate how the previous Minister allowed Police to propose extraordinary fee increases for licensed firearm owners without evidence. A COLFO analysis … Continue reading
Special report LegaSea has welcomed the closure of the Coromandel scallop beds to fishing as recently announced by the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Stuart Nash. The scallop fishery extends from Leigh in the north, through the Hauraki Gulf and … Continue reading
By Ben Hope Venison is one of the healthiest foods you can eat. That is wild venison for it’s totally organic. Wild deer are totally herbivore and totally free range. You’ll cut back on fat and calories in comparing venison … Continue reading
Kina, a shellfish known around the south as ‘spiky gold’, is still being dredged commercially in the Tory Channel. Recreational fishers and environmental interests are objecting to this archaic practice and are urging the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries to … Continue reading
Opinion by Tony Orman Cyclone Gabrielle came, conquered and left a path of destruction and devastation on the North Island’s east coast, particularly Hawkes Bay. Shocking as the destruction was, extreme weather events due to climate change are nothing new. Recently … Continue reading
