Larry Williams Drive

So Posie Parker is on her way to NZ, due to land in about an hour’s time. The court case to try to ban her failed this morning.  The Judge said he had sympathy for the rainbow community, but courts are reluctant to weigh into whether a Minister like the Immigration Minister should or should not have used discretion to ban her, and so for technical reasons he dismissed the application. Let me tell you... that will surprise just about no one. Because I don’t think anyone actually expected a court to ban her. Just like we didn’t expect the Immigration Minister to ban her. Just like we didn’t expect the Immigration Department to ban her. Because it’s a high bar to ban someone who has permission to come here. She is a British citizen, and so she has visa free entry. Which begs the question: why did her opponents do this?  Why did they kick up this massive song and dance, and draw all this attention to trying to ban her when they must’ve known the chances were slim to nil?  Every single opponent of hers who drew at