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Greta Thunberg, the high priestess of planetary doom, seems to be bored of her own apocalypse. She’s turned her holy fury against the Jewish State instead. These eco-nuts have no principles – they’re just addicted to doom-mongering, says Brendan O’Neill
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Call me crazy but I would prefer that universities not decolonize engineering programs.
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Sitting in court watching Stephen Gray’s appeal against a conviction for reposting a meme which mocked Islam and Muhammad marrying a child. He had 15-20 followers on Facebook. A (non-Muslim!) neighbour, who Stephen has previous disagreements with, decided to report him to the police claiming it caused him distress…
The fundamental argument from the CPS is that Stephen was not making a political point. That he expressed his objection to Islamic child marriage in a way that was simply to offend because it singled out Islam, and he should have made his post more nuanced and sensitive if he was making a political point.
The defence is having to point out that Muhammad did in fact marry a 6 year old according to Islamic texts, and that child marriage does still occur in Islamic countries AND there are prominent Islamic scholars IN THE UK who openly say that they are content with child marriage. And either way, it is not illegal to offend others, and you are allowed to make political points that are not nuanced.
To think of all the actual, serious crime in Middlesbrough — let alone the rest of the country — and the time being wasted on this nonsense. Actually witnessing the amount of public resource and time being funnelled into prosecuting people for causing offence by highlighting a factual point is acutely infuriating.
Anyway, join the @SpeechUnion because you never know when it might be you having to explain why you don’t like child marriage, or anything else that Islam permits.
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🎙️🚨 NEW FSU PODCAST EPISODE OUT TODAY AT 2PM!
The Government’s draft Conversion Practices Bill is a Trojan horse for putting Stonewall’s trans ideology on the statute book.
It will also see parents arrested and jailed for up to five years for having good-faith conversations with their gender-confused children or trying to dissuade them from pursuing irreversible medical pathways before the age of 18.
This week, FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw Shaw is joined by women’s rights campaigner @HJoyceGender.
Tune in on the FSU YouTube channel at 2pm!
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Thanks to Newsroom for using our photo in Lianne Dalziel’s column, “Did right-wing attack ad spending sway the election?”
It’s from our Good Faith Yarns night in Tauranga, where historian Paul Moon and theologian Alistair Reese discussed how the Treaty has evolved, hosted by Ani O'Brien @aniobrien. The caption lists us among groups able to “spend over $400k each on attack ads”.
The same tour had Rob Campbell, sacked as Health NZ chair for criticising National, Professor Te Maire Tau of Ngāi Tahu, and Sir Ian Taylor telling the story of Māui.
Putting those guests under a headline about attack ads shows how desperate some in the media are to paint legitimate advocacy as nefarious.
Watch the Tauranga yarn and see for yourself if this is an "attack ad": youtu.be/TCz5l6UAZBc
Every registered promoter could spend over $400k, including Greenpeace and E tū. We spent less than $10k.
Lianne separates unions and groups funded by members and smaller donors from the rest, which she calls opaque. We’re a registered union, and most of our income comes from small donors.
She also wants “some scrutiny on the type of campaigns”. Lianne, come on our Free to Speak podcast and tell us what that means. Nicky Hager, whose book Dirty Work supplies the theory, is welcome too. We’d like to know where the Tauranga yarn fits in the conspiracy.
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Chris Hipkins is an embittered loser and an election denier. He takes aim at National, which didn’t endorse vote splitting, while ignoring the egregious and deliberate rorting of Te Pati Maori - the rorting he hoped to profit from. Hipkins has disgraced himself.
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I didn't pick that the Chris Hipkins of 2026 would turn into the Donald Trump of 2020 and whine he lost because it was rigged.
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Remind me.
Didn’t Opportunity campaign on honesty and transparency?
Last week, Opportunity Party’s Jodie Kuntzsch refused to provide any details about her ties to NZ First before the election.
Via NZ Herald article:
Asked whether she had ever been a member of the party, Kuntzsch said: "Does it, does it matter to you if I was?"
Asked whether she had ever been involved in a local branch of New Zealand First beyond simply being a paid member, she said "there's nuance to some of that" and said it was personal.
Asked whether she had ever sought candidacy for a party besides Opportunity, she would not say.
"I've told you what I think is in the public interest," she said.
Here she is on the Parliament steps, 2 days after the election, standing with her leader Qiulae Wong and once again refusing to answer basic questions.
Come on.
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This isn’t just a lie, it’s also woefully irresponsible for someone in her position to be promoting such inflammatory false conspiracies in the immediate aftermath of an election. It speaks to someone who lacks the necessary virtues for public office. #nzpol #NZElection2026
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After months of silence on the matter, Hipkins has told a mosque congregation the day before the election that Labour will implement the Royal Commission recommendations the coalition dropped. Those include religious hate speech laws.
This screeching U-turn would bring back blasphemy laws to New Zealand under another name, 7 years after they were abolished.
Why leave it until the last day of the campaign? Because he knows fine well it wouldn’t have survived scrutiny.
If Labour form the next government and pursue this, we will fight them tooth and nail to defeat it, as we did last time.
Promoted by Free Speech Union, PO Box 91811, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142
Looks like Hipkins is going to reverse his rule out of hate speech laws if he gets back in. Here we go blasphemy laws. @NZFreeSpeech you are going to be busy.
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All the Toppers out there crying foul over Michael Laws’ comments - are happy to support a party with this cretin who had a year long affair with a staffer, as it’s GM
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Credit where it’s due to @radionz. If they get to five per cent, and two unelected people choose the next Government and PM of New Zealand, this will be the most significant story of the election.
rnz.co.nz/news/politics_elec…
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There are Muslims in Britain who want to murder a teacher because he showed a cartoon of their Prophet Muhammad in a lesson about freedom of speech.
Him and his family have been in hiding for over 5 years now. And our leaders continue to capitulate to the horrific state of affairs they have facilitated. They expect you not to just accept it, but to expect more of it.
Happy Islamophobia Month.
“A nice guy doing his job, and he’s now paying a life sentence for it.”
It is now five years since a religious studies teacher in Batley was suspended from his job after offending some local Muslims.
His alleged offence? Showing his students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad during a class discussion about the brutal massacre of journalists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Fearing for his and his family’s safety, the teacher fled his home.
On this week’s episode of the FSU Podcast, @DavidRoseUK is joined by the teacher’s friend and local activist, Paul Holloran, who says his friend can now “never go home”.
Watch the full episode on the FSU YouTube channel 👇
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Most professional regulators can discipline members for conduct that brings their profession into disrepute. Increasingly, it’s being used against members for lawful opinions voiced outside work.
David Seymour wants the law to say outright that disagreeing isn’t disrepute. ACT would legislate to stop regulators punishing members for lawful speech off the job. Without it, your regulator decides which lawful views you can hold and still practise.
Watch the full interview 👇
🔗 youtu.be/tT4aqZmWDQA
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It is significant that this is a retired doctor speaking out about gender-affirming “care”.
Any practising doctor would be hounded out of the profession by vexatious complainants and ideologically captured regulators.
🚨Family First Media Release
INFORMED CONSENT NOT ENOUGH FOR PUBERTY BLOCKERS
Family First has just released an exclusive podcast discussion between host Simon O’Connor and retired consultant anaesthetist and Genspect NZ clinical director Dr. Isabel Ross.
Dr Ross lays bare the ethical and evidential cracks in New Zealand's approach to prescribing puberty blockers to children — drawing on her newly published paper in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
The paper — Ethical and Evidential Challenges in Adolescent Puberty Blockage: Why Informed Consent Alone Is Not Enough — contends that paediatric gender medicine has elevated patient autonomy above three equally fundamental ethical obligations: do good, do no harm, and act justly. The result, Dr. Ross argues, is a medical pathway built on flimsy evidence, shielded from scrutiny, and often sold to vulnerable families on the basis of unproven claims.
"Lack of evidence of harm is not the same as safety," Dr. Ross told the podcast. "If you don't go looking for harm, you won't find it."
The wide-ranging conversation covered the Cass Review's revelations, the reality of the medical pathway from puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones, the failures of informed consent, and the barriers facing detransitioners — all grounded in Dr. Ross's decades of clinical experience in risk management and pharmacology.
Some key topics discussed on the show include:
· The 50-fold increase in UK children's gender clinic referrals between 2010 and 2019 — a surge that in any other medical context would have triggered a public health emergency.
· That over 90% of children placed on puberty blockers proceed to cross-sex hormones, making the so-called "pause" anything but. For many, the pathway leads to irreversible sterility.
· Informed consent is a fiction when children are asked to weigh decisions about fertility and long-term health they have no life experience to evaluate — and parents are pressured by suicide narratives that lack any solid evidence base.
· Exploratory therapy — the cornerstone of differential diagnosis — has been effectively criminalised under New Zealand's conversion practices law, stripping clinicians and families of the tools they need to properly assess what's actually going on with a struggling child.
· Detransitioners have nowhere to go. No formal medical pathway exists in New Zealand for those who wish to reverse course. Their existence, Dr. Ross notes, is effectively denied.
This is an important podcast discussion around a medical paper that needs to be taken seriously. Not only is Dr Ross raising ethical questions and concerns, but concerns that involve young children and their families.
About Dr. Isabel Ross
Dr Ross is a retired consultant anaesthetist out of Wellington Hospital. She also has a PhD on patient understanding and informed consent. She is also the Clinical director for Genspect New Zealand.
WATCH THE INTERVIEW - youtu.be/FggMQVnNS24
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Twisted Frequency, a New Year music festival in Golden Bay, has cancelled Israeli DJ Dekel for not speaking out against Israel.
The festival says it moved to cancel as soon as it was told he’d been a commander in the Israeli Defence Force. It also tried to find evidence of his views and, by its own account, found nothing “verified and substantial”. Its statement even says a country of origin alone is no reason to boycott a musician. He was dropped anyway, because he hasn’t made a public statement against the “ongoing occupation and genocide” and has kept performing in Israel.
Twisted Frequency is a private festival. It can book who it likes and say what it thinks about Gaza, and we’d defend its right to do both. The problem is the test. Making artists declare a political position before they can perform is compelled speech, and it’s hard to imagine anyone but an Israeli being asked to pass it.
Creative New Zealand, which exists by law to support the arts “for the benefit of all New Zealanders”, gave the festival $10,000 of public money in June.
We’ve written to the festival asking whether every act will now need a statement on Israel and Gaza, and whether artists from Russia, China or the US will face the same test. We’ve asked Creative New Zealand whether its funding agreements require recipients to treat artists fairly.
Could an Israeli with a ticket, who’s never said a word about Gaza, still get through the gate?
📌 Read our letter to the festival: fsu.nz/documents/publication…
📌 Read our letter to Creative NZ : fsu.nz/documents/publication…
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Sheree Trotter on Concern with Violence Against Jewish People Following Attack in Golden Bay
youtu.be/oWEKdl3XYmY
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An Israeli was recently attacked in NZ, hospitalised with spinal injuries and concussion, is now in a wheelchair facing months of rehabilitation. NZ media has barely reported on it. This is only one example of an increasing climate of hostility and violence towards Jewish and Israeli communities in NZ. A collective of organisations released a media statement to draw attention to this issue. It has largely been ignored. The group has now fundraised to publish the statement in a major NZ paper. These are the extraordinary lengths one must take, to draw attention to this issue.
Sheree Trotter on Concern with Violence Against Jewish People Following Attack in Golden Bay
youtu.be/oWEKdl3XYmY
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🚨🚨 JUST NOW: Deranged Abdul Supporter tackled a Jewish girl (@basedinmalibu) at free speech event.
She was SWIFTLY arrested, resisted and then said “I SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER!!” As she was loaded into the police vehicle.