McBlog bobmccoskrie.com Bob McCoskrie is the National Director of Family First NZ. He is a trained secondary teacher, has a post graduate degree in accounting, was a family community worker in South Auckland for 12 years, and has worked in the media part-time and full-time for 25
David Seymour ACT Leader The delay of the vaccine roll out to the general population by several weeks shows how disorganised the Government is. The sooner the country is vaccinated, the safer we will be. The current outbreaks in Victoria and Taiwan show how dangerous waiting can be. Taiwan has
Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer lives in the UK. She is the author of By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign (CUAP, 2008); The Language of Life: Christians Facing the Abortion Challenge (St Pauls, 1995), and Prophets & Priests: the Hidden Face of the Birth Control
Mark Cameron ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson The latest Fonterra announcement of a heightened 2021/2022 farm gate milk price is a big thumbs up for rural New Zealand performance. Cheers to our dairy farmers for all their hard work. What this means to New Zealand economic recovery in these
IINZ israelinstitute.nz Hundreds gathered across the country to stand in support of Israel on Sunday, 23 May 2021. Israel Solidarity Rallies were staged in Auckland, Wellington and Hastings. There was also a gathering on 22 May in Kaitaia. In the small Hawkes Bay town of Hastings a disproportionately large
John Maunder The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is a standardized index based on the observed sea level pressure differences between Tahiti and Darwin, Australia. The SOI is a leading measure of the large-scale fluctuations in air pressure occurring between the western and eastern tropical Pacific (i.e., the state
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson Chris Baillie ACT’s Police spokesperson Gang members shouldn’t be able to take over our public places and intimidate members of the public. No other members of the public can just take over a public road and get away with it. Under Labour,
Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Union One of the reasons so many of us are fearful of hate speech legislation is because of what is happening in the UK. In the latest example of speech police going overboard, a school chaplain has been referred to anti-terror police for
Clay Waters newsbusters.org Clay Waters was director of Times Watch, a former project of the Media Research Center. His self-published whodunnit? is Death In The Eye. The New York Times finally updated its irresponsible reporting on an idea it notoriously “debunked” just two months ago – the possibility that
Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Union You might remember earlier this month, we told you about how Mighty Ape had pulled two books from its catalogue after complaints from trans activists. The activists tried to demand the same from Auckland City Libraries, Stuff reports. Auckland City Libraries did the
Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Union Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, 43, is set to make history as the Olympic Games’ first transgender Olympian. But our national broadcaster, Radio New Zealand, has banned people from commenting on articles that discuss Hubbard’s participation on the broadcaster’s Facebook page. This
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. Much was made this last week of the discovery that CNN had been using the services of Pakistani
Adam Houser cfact.org Adam Houser coordinates student leaders as National Director of CFACT’s collegians program and writes on issues of climate and energy. For decades, big corporations were the liberals’ favorite boogeymen. They were vilified in the media, by Hollywood, and liberal politicians. How the times have changed!
Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Union The UK government has introduced a draft “Online Safety Bill” which would force websites to clamp down on legal speech, and even block them if they don’t comply. Oliver Dowden, the Culture Secretary, said that the bill would “protect children on the
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust One of the standout stories that dominated headlines this week was the unprovoked coward-punch attack on Fau Vake in Auckland. Vake was waiting for a taxi when he was punched in the back of the head, hospitalised, and has since succumbed
Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Union The Wellington Phoenix have spoken to Israeli striker Tomer Hemed after he wrapped himself in the flag of his homeland to celebrate a winning goal, saying the club needs to be “sensitive” to both sides of the Gaza conflict. It comes after Palestine
