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Over the past few months, Hobson’s Pledge has been campaigning hard for a dedicated Regulated Professions Neutrality Bill.
Our campaign, Professionals, Not Politicians, was launched with a simple premise: Kiwi workers should be evaluated on their competence and ethics, not forced to adopt political or ideological positions just to earn a living.
Two taxpayer-funded bodies. One week. Both working against you.
Mike Hosking nailed it on Newstalk ZB this week, and the Taxpayers' Union is right to back him up: the Human Rights Commission has completely lost the plot.
The Commission’s job is straightforward: defend the universal, equal rights of every single New Zealander. Instead, it has degenerated into a taxpayer-funded activist group, picking and choosing which "rights" it defends based on ideology, not principle.
The devil is always in the detail and that is true of submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill. With so much cheerleading and glee from the legacy media about the numbers who submitted in opposition to the Bill, we thought we’d share a reality check about details they conveniently forget to tell you.
We have been told there were more than 300,000 submissions. This is great and shows exactly what we have been saying for years - New Zealanders want to have their say about the place of the Treaty in New Zealand.
So desperate are Christopher Luxon and the National Party to ignore their supporters, they are returning the Treaty Principles Bill from the Justice Committee over a month early.
The committee lead by National MP, James Meager, has today tabled its report on the Bill – a report not due until May!
Last week was a busy week here at Hobson’s Pledge as we continue to challenge the Government to honour its coalition agreements and to stop allowing separatism in New Zealand. Among other activities, we have sent a number of letters to Ministers and MPs and wanted to share these with you for each issue is important to be aware of.
We also need your help, particularly where the Government is actively putting more separatism into law...
