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Shop-owners have the right to self-defence

Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 9:42 am | Libertarianz Party

Shop-owners have the right to self-defence   The tragic death of Navtej Singh in an aggravated robbery in a Manurewa liquor store has prompted members of the Sikh community to declare that they no longer have confidence in the Police to protect ... More >>

Police, Guns and Tasers

Sunday, 8 June 2008, 11:24 am | Libertarianz Party

"The police volunteer to do some unpleasant work in our community, and I applaud them for that.  Yet in order to have our support, they should be prepared to justify their actions," said Peter Linton, Libertarianz Firearms Spokesman, today.  "That's ... More >>

Libertarianz Alternative Budget 2008 (+ video)

Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 9:31 am | Libertarianz Party

"I'm pleased to present a real alternative to the tax-and-spend budget that Labour will present at 2 pm today," Libertarianz Leader Bernard Darnton said today. More >>

MMP, STV, FPP ... Why Not Good Ol' Liberty?

Monday, 19 May 2008, 9:46 am | Libertarianz Party

News that a future National Government will probably hold a referendum on MMP is a great yawn, says SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo. More >>

Cunliffe's Hands-Off Attitude Laudable

Thursday, 8 May 2008, 4:57 pm | Libertarianz Party

According to Libertarianz spokesman Richard McGrath, the junior doctors strike is a matter for the doctors, their union and the hospitals to sort out between themselves. More >>

Poverty Spin Will Breed More Misery

Thursday, 1 May 2008, 5:57 pm | Libertarianz Party

"After reading the litany of responses from the usual quarters following the Child Poverty Action Group report 'Left Behind: How Social & Income Inequalities Damage New Zealand Children', I am convinced that the situation for New Zealand's ... More >>

Looming Crises and Drastic Measures

Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 9:41 am | Libertarianz Party

"There will be much discussion coming up to the election of the rising cost of food," Notes Libertarianz commodity spokesman Peter Cresswell. "So let's get some things out of the way now," More >>

Airport Interference Disgraceful

Friday, 11 April 2008, 12:55 am | Libertarianz Party

That's how Libertarianz Leader Bernard Darnton describes the Government's interference in the partial sale of Auckland International Airport shares to the Canada Pension Plan. "More meddling, more sticky-beaking and more force being used to control ... More >>

Mapp's Crocodile Tears

Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 3:38 pm | Libertarianz Party

Wayne Mapp's protest that the nation has been left defenceless with the departure of H.M.N.Z.S. Te Mana for the Persian Gulf yesterday is simply crocodile tears, said Libertarianz Defence Spokesman and North Shore Candidate Michael Murphy today. More >>

Bring Back BZP

Friday, 14 March 2008, 11:47 am | Libertarianz Party

"What will one man party pooper Jim Banderton ban next?" wonders Libertarianz Drugs Spokesman, Dr. Richard Goode, referring to Banderton's bill to ban BZP-based party pills passed yesterday by Parliament. More >>

Sin Comes of (New) Age

Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 1:33 pm | Libertarianz Party

Primitive superstition meets contemporary vacuousness in the revised list of mortal sins issued by the Vatican, observes SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo. More >>

Euthanase The Medical Council, Say Libz

Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 10:26 am | Libertarianz Party

Libertarianz spokesman Richard McGrath today called for the Medical Council to be dissolved, in light of what he called its "total failure to investigate and supervise an incompetent, alcoholic, ex-jailbird gynaecologist." More >>

All Power to Taggers

Monday, 18 February 2008, 9:18 am | Libertarianz Party

"How convenient that Comrade Clark should front up to the press over tagging in election year." Said Peter Osborne, the Libertarianz Social Welfare Spokesman today. More >>

Doctors Need To Know Which Hospitals Are Unsafe

Friday, 15 February 2008, 9:35 am | Libertarianz Party

Libertarianz Health Spokesman Richard McGrath says Health and Disabilities Commissioner Ron Paterson needs to notify doctors and other referral agencies which of the country's public hospitals are unacceptably unsafe. More >>

Cunliffe Shouldn't Be Running The Show

Friday, 15 February 2008, 9:24 am | Libertarianz Party

Libertarianz Health Spokesman Richard McGrath says the Health and Disability Commissioner's damning indictment of New Zealand's public hospitals is the first nail in the coffin for David Cunliffe. More >>

Three Simple Remedies for Housing Affordability

Wednesday, 13 February 2008, 10:21 am | Libertarianz Party

Since neither of the two main parties appear to have any actual concrete ideas of how to solve the problem of increasing housing unaffordability -- a problem they've only even noticed now its election year -- Libertarianz housing spokesman Peter Cresswell ... More >>

Landowners should tremble at Clark's new policy

Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 3:52 pm | Libertarianz Party

Responding to Helen Clark's plan to combat housing unaffordability, Libertarianz Housing spokesman Peter Cresswell is encouraged at the Clark Govenment's belated recognition that the core of the problem is over-regulation and under-supply, but ... More >>

Cunliffe Needs To Search His Soul

Monday, 4 February 2008, 9:15 am | Libertarianz Party

Libertarianz spokesman Richard McGrath said Health Minister David Cunliffe, the self-proclaimed 'socialist who can count', knows why three Hawkes Bay people have died waiting for coronary bypass surgery. More >>

Drought Solution: Don't Waste Water, Folks

Monday, 4 February 2008, 7:55 am | Libertarianz Party

"Another meeting, another talkfest, another pile of taxpayers' money wasted on pointless crap," says Libertarianz Environment Spokesman Peter Cresswell in response to news of 'drought committees' forming across the country and of the country's biggest emitter ... More >>

Unprecedented State Control of New Zealand Youth

Thursday, 31 January 2008, 4:51 pm | Libertarianz Party

Libertarianz education spokesman Phil Howison today slammed Helen Clark and John Key's mirror-image plans to nationalise New Zealand teenagers. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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