A NEW CHAPTER To all those who follow and enjoy my work, thank you so much for partaking in this adventure with me over the last 4 years. You’ve probably already noticed I’ve pulled back to an extent from social media – Twitter, Youtube and Facebook. I’ve been
“The Education Minister’s desperate call for crisis talks with the teachers’ unions comes as he is boosting the number and pay of back-office bureaucrats at the Ministry of Education”, ACT Leader David Seymour says. “PPTA members begin five weeks of rolling strikes from next week, but they may be
Mental health break was brought to you by The Whale Meat Company. SPACE TO ROAM: a tribute to public lands from Andrew Studer on Vimeo.
Joe Ascroft Economist New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Our team has just returned from the Beehive, where we attended the media and analysts’ lock-up event for the government’s new “Wellbeing Budget”. This year’s Budget was accompanied by some level of turmoil, with leaks, alleged hacks, and a (very brief)
Louis Houlbrooke New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union ‘Climate emergency’ trend sweeping the nation Are you feeling alarmed? According to virtue-signalling local politicians, you should be, because councils across the country are rushing to declare ‘climate emergencies’. Following intense media attention on last week’s ‘climate change strike’, nearly every council in
David Cumin Free Speech Coalition Is calling a politician the name of a fairy tale character worthy of Police action? Over the weekend, the head of a Rotorua ratepayers’ association was accused of “age, gender, and race-based hate speech” after he published a Facebook post stating: “Beware the charismatic pitch
Free Speech Coalition An opinion piece by journalist John Drinnan. John Drinnan says “There is a tendency to accept that people with unorthodox views in the current milieu must be policed and punished. It goes against the notion of objectivity and balance that some of us still expect from media.
If you believe what you read in the news, you probably think I’m a racist who caused another politician to require police protection. I wrote the article below to explain why that couldn’t be further from the truth, raising questions about how such a story came to be.
