Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The Budget is done and dusted and on the face of it, National successfully delivered on its election promise to provide tax relief to New Zealanders by lowering tax thresholds. The current tax thresholds were established in 2010 by John Key’s National Government. The
Martin Brook Associate Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau When Resources Minister Shane Jones recently unveiled his draft strategy for mineral mining, it was quickly criticised by the Labour opposition as “taking New Zealand backwards”. One environmental group even called it a “love letter to mining
David Wojick David Wojick, Ph.D. is an inDr. David Wojick is an independent policy analyst and senior advisor to CFACT. As a civil engineer with a Ph.D. in logic and analytic philosophy of science, he brings a unique perspective to complex policy issues. cfact.org Who would have
John G. Malcolm John G. Malcolm is the vice president for the Institute for Constitutional Government and also directs Heritage’s Meese and Simon centers at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts when
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com Here’s the latest media release from Family First NZ… A new website WokeUp.nz has just been launched by Family First NZ. The website documents wokeness in New Zealand-based businesses so that Kiwi consumers can decide for themselves who to do business with and who
The One New Zealand Foundation Colonisation did not destroy the tangata Maori’s way of life; it was Hongi Hika, Ngapuhi who destroyed it when he returned from England in 1820 with over 500 muskets and went on the rampage south with 2000 of his followers, killing or taking as
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com Despite the intention of the new Government coalition to review the radical RSE programme in schools, both the Ministry of Education and InsideOut are going full steam ahead, promoting the guidelines, running courses with teachers, and basically ‘giving the bird’ to the new government and the
Tani Newton For every good thing, they say, the devil has a malicious counterfeit. That was what came to my mind when I heard of the Maori Party’s “Declaration of Independence” and their plans to establish a Maori Parliament. We should all know that New Zealand has a declaration
Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com Stats NZ has asked an independent external party to investigate allegations of misuse of census data collected for the 2023 Census. Last year Stats NZ
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Senior Creative Strategist of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org The effort to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19 is more than four years in the making. And while shockingly little progress has been made, evidence suggests
Dave Patterson libertynation.com When it comes to US allies, Biden seems to want them to be fearful just as fearful of confrontation with Iran as America currently is. The White House will rely on negotiations to address Iran’s expanding nuclear program, which would make perfect sense if only
Newt Gingrich realclearwire.com Americans are now being forced to think through the first fake conviction in the history of presidential politics. As an historian, I am really bothered when I hear lawyers on television describe these proceedings as though they were somehow related to the rule of law and
William Huang William Huang is an avid researcher of China and East Asia’s looming demographic crisis. A product of China’s one-child policy, it was only when he went overseas to study that he realised just how much damage this policy has done to the Chinese nation and his
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Paulette Harlow, 75, was arrested back in 2020 after praying outside of a Washington D.C. abortion clinic. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Harlow on May 31, deciding that she deserves to sit in jail for two full years. Harlow, visited the Washington Surgi-clinic with a group
Fiona Mackenzie Racial separatists in New Zealand have become significantly more strident of late, demanding undemocratic power and funding, along with greater control over anyone identifying as Maori. It all sounds scarily similar to the unhinged ranting of many of the world’s destructive despots. With this perilous state in
John Porter “Cometh the hour, cometh the man.” Generally meaning that leadership, even of one’s self, is absent and desperately needed in a time of greatest necessity, so someone is forced to step up whether they seem capable or not. Prime Minister Luxon I think your hour has cometh!
