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
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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