Pages tagged "don brash"

  • Brash questions roadblock safety, openness, accountability

    Police should publish the selection process used to appoint non-Police personnel to enforce compliance with Covid-19 regulations at roadblocks, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said today.

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  • Thank you for supporting massive protest

    Thank you for supporting massive protest

    Thank you to those who taped a sign to your vehicle and drove the Groundswell route through the town nearest you on Sunday.

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  • Brash: A Govt that imposes Three Waters is a dictatorship

    A Government that ignores reasoned opposition from local government by imposing 50/50 iwi-council co-governance through its Three Waters Plan is yet another step closer to a dictatorship, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said today.

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  • Thank you for signing our petitions

    Thank you for signing our petition, either against the underhand attempt to change our nation’s name from New Zealand to “Aotearoa”, or against the equally underhand attempt to set up two governments, one for Maori and one for everyone else.

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  • Brash: Government needs agreement of the people to change the name of our country

    Polls show that the great majority of New Zealanders don’t support a change in our country’s name.

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  • Petition to eradicate ‘Aotearoa’ from official use

    Lobby group Hobson’s Pledge is pushing for the name “Aotearoa” to be removed from official use until a binding referendum is held to decide whether or not to proceed with changing the name of New Zealand.

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  • Three waters plan ‘He Puapua in action’

    Imposed without warning or any electoral mandate, the total upheaval of water services in New Zealand - designed to deliver control to Maori - is He Puapua in action, commentator Muriel Newman said at the weekend.

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  • Open letter: Don Brash to the Prime Minister

    Prime Minister,

    Again and again, you and your Ministers refer to the “partnership” created by the Treaty of Waitangi. I wonder if you would be kind enough to explain to me (and to the many other New Zealanders who would be interested in your answer) where you found reference to “partnership”, or any synonym of “partnership”, in any version of the Treaty.

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  • Did MP start petition that got blogger sacked?

    A petition that got a blogger fired from his job after he criticised the He Puapua plan for two governments under tribal monitoring, plus a spoof video ridiculing a Maori Party MP, raises the question whether a Maori Party co-leader started it.

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  • Brash: Giving one tribe equal say with 23 councils outrageous

    A proposal to give one tribe equal say to that of 23 councils over South Island water without consulting the non-Maori community is outrageous, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said today.

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