Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt stated last week, “many renters are having to make trade-offs between their fundamental human rights, such as the right to adequate food and the right to a decent home. A home is first and foremost a fundamental human right and not an investment,” he repeated. This garbage is fairy tale nonsense.

Nearly three weeks after the discovery of the remains of two young Korean children in a suitcase, the NZ Herald created a non-story that’s right up there with their greatest ever piece of creative writing, namely the never to be forgotten “The Tragic Life and Death of Sonny Fai.”

Last week during the swearing in of the new Parliamentary Speaker, an affable back-bencher I doubt few New Zealanders had heard of, the Act leader mis-used the occasion to launch a grossly distasteful attack on Trevor Mallard’s appointment as our ambassador to Ireland.