Bryce Edwards democracyproject.substack.com Illegal and corrupt practices are alleged to have occurred in the way that Te Pati Maori has been running election campaigns, abusing their use of state-funded processes. Allegations revealed Saturday about the way the party colluded with a South Auckland marae and John Tamihere’s
Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com Beware of ministers and mayors with simple solutions to any city’s problems! A series of snake-oil salesmen have
Dan Denis Marie Sklodowska-Curie Senior Research Fellow, University of York Twenty-six years. That is roughly how much of our lives are spent asleep. Scientists have been trying to explain why we spend so much time sleeping since at least the ancient Greeks, but pinning down the exact functions of sleep
Jeffrey Lord Jeffrey Lord is a Contributing Writer for NewsBusters. Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House and aide to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania he went on to work for the Pennsylvania State Senate
Peter Murphy Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. cfact.org O Canada, we stand
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
dailytelegraph.co.nz THE FORMER US PRESIDENT’S CAMPAIGN HAS RAISED OVER $1 MILLION FOR EACH OF THE 34 CRIMINAL CHARGES. Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has reportedly raised over $34 million since the former US president was found guilty on 34 felony counts in New York, in a trial
Mark Freeman A Wellington drama troupe took to the streets at the weekend to satirise and raise awareness of the World Health Organization’s pandemic treaty. The Freedom Improv Group wrote and performed the light-hearted eight-minute sketch, whose main message was to “Give the WHO the shoe”. In the sketch,
Tani Newton The results of the 2023 census are out. New Zealand’s population is now 4,993,923. Which invites the question: Does that include the million people who didn’t take part in the census? Come to think of it, if they need a census to find out
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Debbie Lerman Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. brownstone.org Much finger-wagging and self-righteous condemnation are happening in the halls of government these days, regarding revelations that HHS, our umbrella public
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Senior Creative Strategist of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org My wife and I are in the process of finishing Shogun, the new FX miniseries on Hulu based on James Clavell’s 1975 book. Shogun was one of the first
Win Thandar Zaw PhD Candidate, Te Piringa-Faculty of Law, University of Waikato When a product or appliance fails, how often have you asked yourself whether it’s even worth fixing? Chances are, even if the item is repairable, the cost and inconvenience mean buying a new replacement can make more
Bruce Logan Bruce Logan is a board member of Family First NZ familyfirst.org.nz The rise of ‘boutique multiculturalism’ – by Bruce Logan Richard Dawkins, atheist extraordinaire and apprentice conservative, has not been on the road to Damascus, but somewhat belatedly he has recognised the significance of what we have
Matthew H I served 10 years in the US Army and married a Kiwi. I’m just trying to get people to understand MY people. New York City votes 80 per cent Democrat. The jury pool for Donald Trump’s trial would have been stacked with Trump haters. Same thing
Dr Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz To truly understand [the 2024] Budget, it’s worth returning to a statement made in 2020 by the then British High Commissioner Laura Clark that
