Barbara McKenzie Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in in German Literature. stovouno.org ‘Vote for the political party which is going to completely abandon (not partly abandon) co-governance, scrap the Waitangi Tribunal, repeal the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, and all race-based legislation’. Stop Co-governance booklet New
Flatanker Fifty years and one day after the Yom Kippur War, Hamas invaded Israel. They have killed and taken hostages back to Gaza. They have wounded the nation and angered it. Sadly, Israel will now move from retaliation to revenge. The response is going to be brutal. Whilst the Palestinians
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com “Our Governments have great powers and great responsibilities. Their exercise of those powers and fulfilment of those responsibilities is legitimate only because it arises from the consent of the people, or, to put it another way, because it is based on the political sovereignty of
Bruce Logan Bruce Logan is a board member of Family First NZ familyfirst.org.nz Identity? The progressive says it’s chosen and the conservative says it’s given. Consequently “What is a woman?” is the most revealing question you can ask a current or aspiring MP. Why? The answer
Suze Wilson Massey University theconversation.com Given the presidential style of modern politics, the intense media focus on party leaders is unavoidable. But this involves a degree of artifice. New Zealanders don’t vote directly for a prime minister, they vote for their preferred party and electorate candidate. Technicalities aside,
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The Royal Commission of Inquiry into all things covid has visited Tairawhiti according to an article in The Gisborne Herald. The title of the article Investigating ‘everything to do with the pandemic’ is a little misleading when the details are considered.
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com As the New Zealand election looms, most agree that the current Labour coalition government is on the way out. No bad thing as we learn that their assaults on our health service include potentially thousands of doctors quietly exempted from covid
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com During a recent political ‘debate’ between Labour and National leaders, one quick-fire question was: Do you think people with legitimate vaccine injuries should get compensation? Being doctors, this question caught our attention. First, we wondered what a ‘legitimate’ vaccine injury
Chris Trotter Chris Trotter is New Zealand’s leading leftwing political commentator, with 30 years of experience writing professionally about New Zealand politics. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz WHAT HAS CHRIS BISHOP SEEN that has so unhinged him? Why would National’s Campaign Manager, whose party is currently attracting
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk Scottish Green Party MSP, Gillian Mackay, has published a bill that proposes introducing the most extreme abortion buffer zone laws in the world in Scotland, making it illegal to offer assistance to women seeking an abortion within 200m of an abortion clinic or
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org David Brooks is sorry. The New York Times columnist admitted he “screwed up” when he posted on social media a photo of his meal — a burger, fries, and a whiskey
Phil Green Typically for the BFD, any day is a good day to read something that makes you think. On Saturday the 7th this article was posted. I commented with a brief synopsis of the cards dealt to me, specifically as it trends with the high suicide rate of divorced
Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on New Zealand’
Ross Smith As a frequent non-status quo political participant, I too have been a wasted vote denier before. My belief in the past was a hardened view of the virtue of sticking with my political choice all the way to the bitter end. After all, some say, “The only
BICOM For Update No.1 click here and for No.2 click here. What’s happened: The Israeli death toll from the surprise Hamas attack launched Sunday morning has today (Monday) risen to over 600, including around 240 mostly young people massacred at a “Nature Party”. At least 2,048
Phil Green It was a big day for the BFD when the amazing Guy Hatchard revealed the news that he’d finally got that ‘Gotcha!’ moment when he revealed through OIAs that the Ministry of Health had permitted themselves over 11,000 exemptions from the Covid vaccine. There’s a
