Dear Editor This week I attended my offspring’s graduation in Wellington. I sat through one of Victoria University’s 3-hour-long ceremonies. It should have been about the kids graduating, but the first 30–40 minutes were dedicated to honouring the recently retired State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes. He was
Dear Editor It is another Hipkins disaster. https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350246034/how-did-cost-moving-two-schools-blow-out-more-400m I have been in the building industry for over twenty years and I have done a lot of schools. I find them a low margin business for several reasons. I obviously am moving in the
Dear Editor Recently the UK pharmaceutical watchdog Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) ruled that a tweet and subsequent retweets made by Pzifer employees in February 2023, breached standards and had ‘misleadingly’ and ‘illegally’ promoted its Covid-19 vaccine. Which was then still in phase 3 trials. The ruling totalled
Dear Editor, When I was young (many decades ago) we lived on a small family farm at Wheatvale near Warwick on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. Our lifestyle was close to the organic self-sufficient nirvana that today’s green zealots babble on about – we produced much of what we
Dear Editor, “If you repeat a lie often enough people will come to believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself” is something Joseph Goebbels apparently never said, but that axiom has certainly been a propaganda staple since, dare I even mention it, the Nazi regime of
Dear Editor, There has recently been a lot of serious discussion about the state of the economy, in particular as a result of the declining birth rate which, although it is a good thing carbon-wise, nevertheless creates challenges due to the subsequent ageing of our population. As we know, as
Dear Editor Watching ‘The Chaser’ on TV, I was exposed yet again to the Pacific Island bowel screening advert. The one with the big group singing and cheering, and the kid finishing with “You can Poo it” to his grandfather. It was clearly designed by someone with a very low
Dear Editor, The claim that Maori did not cede sovereignty to the Crown by the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and therefore compensation is due because the colonists subsequently stole the land, is no more plausible than a claim that the Anglo-Saxons never ceded sovereignty to the Norman invaders in
Dear Editor Good job we don’t have a capital gains tax or Waikato-Tainui, the iwi in which the Kingitanga movement is based, would be looking at a tax of close to NZ$80 million on their NZ$227 million increase in capital asset value for the year 2022/23.
Dear Editor The request, by Hone Hawira’s Te Ropu Tupeka Kore, for the Waitangi Tribunal to rule that, because Maori are disproportionally affected by smoking related illness, the repeal of Labour’s tobacco sales ban is contrary to Treaty obligations, will set some interesting precedents if successful. Obesity disproportionally
Dear Editor I have been intrigued by claims, in the alternative media to which I subscribe, that there is a left-wing bias among our mainstream media which is strongly antithetic towards the newly elected coalition Government. This was reinforced by Peter Williams’s article recently in the BFD, so I
Dear Editor Why have a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi when it played such a small role in New Zealand’s political, legal and justice systems? This was achieved by the six documents below that are held at Archives New Zealand but, except for the Tiriti o Waitangi, are
Dear Editor Golriz Ghahraman. Lawyer. Defender of Bosnian and Rwandan war criminals. Anti-Israel, anti-Jewish supporter of Palestinians and, by extension, their elected representatives Hamas, a terrorist organisation whose primary sponsor Iran is, ironically, the country from which she and her family fled as refugees in 1990. Alleged shoplifter of goods
Dear Editor The Commerce Commission this week filed criminal charges against two construction companies and two directors for alleged bid-rigging of publicly funded projects, calling it “the country’s first-ever criminal prosecution for cartel conduct”. Cartel conduct or bid-rigging occurs when bidders collude amongst themselves to fix the prices each
Dear Editor Mainstream media has come in for criticism of late for not living up to its assigned role and heritage. This is seen in the opinion piece of Simon Wilson. He is correct when he states te Reo has been embraced by many. That is as far as it
Dear Editor Just as Cerberus the three-headed hound guards the gates of Hades, we now have a new three-headed coalition to guard the gates of democracy in New Zealand. And after just a short time it’s exciting to see how the new tripartite government is already shaping up. If
