Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialized’ it over a few days. Part one here. New Zealand’s situation is pretty much an “outlier” on the
Lindsay Mitchell Earlier this week the Child Poverty Action Group conference was giving stick to the Minister of MSD for not doing enough to ease poverty. She appeared, didn’t take questions and has retaliated with a press release showing that: 1 million New Zealanders warmed by the Winter Energy
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign There’s been some developments on a number of fronts over the last seven days. The Royal Commission into the Christchurch terror attack has a four-month extension so it now won’t be reporting back until the end of April 2020. It
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. I guess you probably won’t read this, so I will copy this email
CHOICE STAFFER What an incredible week. A sole MP of one political party has made history by bringing one of the most difficult social dilemmas to Parliament to be debated over a four year period, and won, at least to be able to bring End of Life Choice to a
A look at the mail order form for the Christchurch shooter and what it means in terms of Police failings that allowed the attacks to occur. State of NZ This video is well worth watching and sharing as it points out that the New Zealand public is not at fault
Alex Haslam, The University of Queensland; Catherine Haslam, The University of Queensland, and Tegan Cruwys, Australian National University The ABC’s Australia Talks project aims to stimulate a conversation on a broad sweep of topics — from job security and sexual habits to national pride and personal finances. The project is
Simon Lilburn, University of Melbourne and Philip Smith, University of Melbourne You’re driving down an unfamiliar street on a clear spring evening. You’ve been invited to a friend of a friend’s party, at a house you’ve never been to before. Tracking the street numbers, you see
PA Pundits – International Ronald Stein Ron Stein contributes Posts at the CFACT site. He is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched Principal Technical Services (PTS) in 1995. He writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. California is about to take
PA Pundits – International Clay Waters Clay Waters was the director of Times Watch a former project of the Media Research Center. The New York Times offered up a silly time-waster of a “news analysis” from Charlie Savage, a national security and legal policy correspondent, and White House correspondent Michael
David Cumin IINZ The United Nations just passed eight resolutions against Israel and zero against any other country. New Zealand participated in this bullying again, voting for seven and abstaining on one. In contrast, traditional allies Australia voted for only one of the eight, Canada did not vote for any,
50 Shades of Green – NZ Eve McCallum On the 14th of November, a group of New Zealand Farmers protested in Wellington. This copy of the speech notes of Eve McCallum was taken from the 50 Shades of Green Facebook page. We are real people, we are families, and we are
Xbolt Just read this speech from a Farmer (Mr Lincoln Grant) who was at the protest this week outside Parliament. It’s a bit long but interesting. The ETS scheme is a rort of magnitude 10. Shame on any Government that participates. I am Lincoln Grant. We farm a 600ha
PA Pundits – International Fred Lucas Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is the co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast. The Obama administration instructed her on how to respond to lawmakers’ questions about the lucrative employment of
Redline Information Satire The Committee of Disobedient Women has intercepted an email from Dr Emma Eejut, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Massey University to the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Jan Thomas. Dear Jan, Thank you for your courageous move. I think 10 pages of blether** should tie any of the students
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has science and financial qualifications and long experience in mining, farming, weather cycles, bushfires and politics in Australia. He was an active member of the Mt Walker bush fire brigade for about 25 years. He remembers the terrible Millennium drought and he and his wife fought
