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!
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com The Coalition Agreements which the National Party reached with the ACT and New Zealand First parties oblige the new Government to “restore the right to local referendum on
Ronald Sievert Senior Lecturer in Government, Texas A&M University The facts and the law behind New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s successful prosecution of Donald Trump could be argued at length. But as a government prosecutor for thirty years, I have been most interested in the ethics
Ann Farmer Ann Farmer writes from the United Kingdom. mercatornet.com Britain is in a political frenzy after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that a snap general election will take place on July 4. This means that some of his government’s bills will lapse before becoming law, including a
Philip Wegmann realclearwire.com Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday, a New York jury brought the country to an unprecedented brink by finding Donald Trump guilty of financial fraud, making the former president a convicted felon for now (unless or until the conviction is overturned on appeal) and making
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 OPINION: It is possible that security agencies will be closely monitoring Kiri Tamihere-Waititi, the wife of Maori Party Co-Leader Rawiri Waititi. Her expletive-laden social media
Dr Duncan du Bois Although the tally of votes had not been finalised, the situation on May 31 showed clearly that South Africa is on the cusp of political change. In that respect it is significant how May 31 has marked turning points in our history. On May 31, 1844
