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A Bill Drafted in Haste
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A Bill Drafted in Haste

Howick Ratepayers & Residents Association A Submission by the Howick Ratepayers & Residents Association, predicts a catastrophic outcome from The Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply) Amendment Bill 2021. It asks what will be the social cost of what appears to be a plan for creating slums. It also points out

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Letter of Complaint to NZ Herald

Letter of Complaint to NZ Herald

The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Team To the NZ Herald Editor We wish to make a complaint about the article that the NZ Herald ran yesterday that was written by David Fisher. A copy of this article is also attached in its original form, in case any changes have since

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Has the Law Got the Balance Right?

Claire Breen Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Dr Claire Breen holds a BCL from the National University of Ireland (University College Cork). She also holds an LLM (International Law) and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and

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Turkey’s Arrest of Israeli Tourists Causes Alarm

bicom.org.uk What happened:  A Turkish court has extended the remand of two Israeli tourists being accused of spying for Israel. * The Israeli couple Natali and Mordy Oknin, bus drivers from Modiin, were arrested on Thursday outside the Media Tower, the tallest building in Istanbul, for illegally taking photos

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Coersive Care

Coersive Care

Nick Cater mercatornet.com Nick Cater is executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre in Canberra. Since arriving in Australia from Britain in 1988, he has risen to become one of the nation’s leading political commentators. His CV includes stints as deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph in Sydney

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No Safe Space for Diversity of Thought

Jonathan Ayling fsu.nz Academic freedom is defined in s161 of the Education Act as “the freedom of academic staff and students, within the law, to question and test received wisdom, to put forward new ideas and to state controversial or unpopular opinions”. Without an unwavering commitment to this principle,

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The Blinkers of the Left

The Blinkers of the Left

Arthur The hidebound ideologues of the left and their mindless followers have one theme that runs through their thinking. They are so smugly self-righteous and sure of how right they are on all issues. They are deaf, dumb and blind to all counter views. They will jump and wriggle

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When Liberal Media Narratives Blow Up

When Liberal Media Narratives Blow Up

Jeffrey Lord newsbusters.org 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

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A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

righttolife.org.uk Almost 1,500 women did not go through with their abortion after an initial consultation and a three-day consideration or waiting period, newly released data in Ireland has revealed. As part of a response to a parliamentary question in Ireland last week, it was revealed that

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Wellbeing Doesn’t Mean Being Well

Wellbeing Doesn’t Mean Being Well

Donald Digby “You Can Lock Me up but You Can’t Shut Me Up” For ex-pat Kiwis, 2020 was an extraordinary year. Not only were we dealing with Covid outbreaks in our countries of residence but we were trapped overseas, denied our God-given right to return to our

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NZ Legal Aid Crisis Eroding the Right to Justice
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NZ Legal Aid Crisis Eroding the Right to Justice

Kris Gledhill Auckland University of Technology Professor Gledhill’s more than 30 years in the law, as both a practitioner and an academic, has spanned many aspects of law but has focused on criminal law and human rights law, particularly international human rights. As a barrister in London he largely

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A Request from the Moderation Team
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A Request from the Moderation Team

HR Hi everyone. The BFD is humming even more than usual with 1.7 million or so people being in lockdown until recently and highly likely to be locked down again. The hot topics are, of course, covid, the government and the media. Emotions are high and commenters obviously want

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A Message to COP26 Attendees

A Message to COP26 Attendees

CLINTEL clintel.org. At COP26, the wealthy global elite arrived in Glasgow on 400 private jets to lecture those attending. They said that our technological achievements have caused a global “climate emergency”, that it was “one minute to midnight” and that if we failed to stop this supposedly disastrous trend

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MSNBC Says Virginia’s New Black LT. Governor Is a White Supremacist

MSNBC Says Virginia’s New Black LT. Governor Is a White Supremacist

Simon Black sovereignman.com James Hickman (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of

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