From 2014-17 there were so many dairy burglaries that shop owners were protesting in the streets. The Nuts response was a $1.8m program that made the owners pay HALF the cost of $3000 of fog cannons etc. It was a shitshow. Let Paula Bennett & not so brave Mark Mitchell tell you.
I did a bit of work around this dreadful case in 2014 and got to know the whanau of the killer. I don’t remember it being politicised in any way as being the fault of the Nat government. https://t.co/kSFG4u0aSY
The govt collected $81.6m in income tax from 16/17YOs last year, despite them having absolutely no say in how that is collected or spent. Taxation without representation just ain’t right
@JudithCollinsMP Its because decriminalisation was a referendum, and she wanted people to make their own minds up, not copy her. Voting age is a 75 % majority in parliament, voted by Mps hopefully smarter than you .
Uh, New Zealand's voting age a century ago was 21. It was reduced to 20 in 1969 and 18 in 1974. Dude who wants to be the next Justice minister should probably read a book.
"Boot camps" (MACs) were operated from 2010 until they basically ran out of steam in the final years of the Key government. A 2016 MSD analysis found the 12-month recidivism rate was 86% and acknowledged that they did not prevent reoffending any better than other interventions.
Big Veganism is a Corporate Dream
Key ingredients of "plant-based meat" are wheat & soy - crops in the grip of Ag-multinationals; hence veganism = more artificial fertiliser, pesticides & herbicides produced by Bayer, Syngenta & the rest of the Big Ag chemical giants.