Labour’s Lianne Dalziel said deprivation of liberty was a core function of the state … From TV3′s report on private prisons.

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I spar regularly with the posters and commenters at The Standard, and the hypocrisy of the Left with regard to anonymity and privacy has not gone unnoticed in the past. I will, however, applaud lprent today.  He got something right yesterday when he withdrew Bill English’s address from a post. Well done.

Freedom, Labour, New Zealand, Politics | 2 Comments »

A bizarre blog post on The Stranded contains some extremely odd thinking.  During the debate about Matariki, ACT MP David Garrett asked Chris Finlayson in Parliament: Is the Minister aware that Dr Paul Moon, a professor of history at the Auckland University of Technology and a well-known expert in pre-European history, is of the view [...]

Culture, Free Speech, Labour, New Zealand, Pacific, Science | 11 Comments »

The kerfuffle over the benefit payments to two beneficiaries certainly has legs.  It’s disappointing to see the Left completely fail to engage with the central argument: are beneficiaries getting too much money, too little or about the right amount? Some of the controversy is about a grant of around $10,000 to solo mother Natasha Fuller [...]

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Clearly, freedom-loving New Zealanders will party vote Libertarianz on Saturday (Bernard Darnton provides a great explanation why). But in some areas, your electorate vote will have to go to one of the other parties. To assist you in your decision, Phil and I would like to point freedom-loving voters to a great candidates voting guide [...]

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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tertiary Education Libertarianz Condemns Universal Student Bribery “The Libertarianz Party utterly condemns the attempt by the Labour Government to buy their way into power yet again,” Libertarianz Education Spokesman Phil Howison declared today in response to the Prime Minister’s announcement that, if re-elected, her party would introduce a universal student [...]

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Pandering to students won them the election in 2005, so they’re trying it again! Labour party leader Helen Clark has said her party would introduce student allowances across the board if it forms the next Government. In a speech to students at Otago University this afternoon, she said the policy would be phased in from [...]

Catastrophes, Labour, New Zealand | 2 Comments »

Well, if you print off a list of all the government departments, state-owned enterprises, councils and quangos, there are 407 of them. Hard to visualise, isn’t it?  Libertarianz is here to help you out: That’s nine pages of normal-sized text. It reaches from floor to ceiling, with inches still lying on the carpet. You can [...]

Catastrophes, Freedom, Labour, Libertarianz, New Zealand, Photos | 4 Comments »

The article as it appeared in the Herald today (click for larger version). Yesterday I talked to Craig, a reporter from the Herald, who noticed a Libertarianz sign on Quay St (Well done, Auckland Libz!) with the “As Demanded by Helen Clark, 4 Cromwell Street, Mt Eden, Auckland” label. It was this label that he [...]

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Kiwiblog reports that Helen Clark has just announced the election is to be held on November 8. That gives us eight weeks. It’s enough to make you vote Libertarianz!

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