Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. nzcpr.com The Labour Government has betrayed
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com At a post-Cabinet press conference on the 8th of February, just two weeks after becoming New Zealand’s 41st Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins announced that Labour’s proposed hate speech legislation would be withdrawn and the matter referred to the Law Commission. He explained
Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce president, her background is in business and education. nzcpr.com On the last Friday of
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The release of government budgets used to be memorable affairs. Crowded around the radio or telly, it was excise tax changes on petrol, alcohol and cigarettes that exercised Kiwis the most. Some, car keys at the ready, would make a mad dash to try to
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The Coronation of King Charles III was watched by over 400 million people worldwide. Millions of royal fans crowded into London to be part of the celebration, with over a hundred thousand lining the procession route. The pomp and pageantry of the Westminster Abbey ceremony
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The shock defection of the Labour Cabinet Minister Meka Whaitiri, the MP for Ikaroa-Rawhiti, to the Maori Party caught the Prime Minister and her former colleagues by surprise. They were blind-sided, admitting they had no idea she was thinking of leaving the Party.
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com “Hipkins and McAnulty can only hope the mainstream media remains largely dozy, lazy and uninformed on the role of Te Mana o te Wai statements until the election. For if the general public fully grasp that Maori will be given extensive — and exclusive — rights to
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com In last week’s valedictory statement, Jacinda Ardern described herself as a “conviction politician”, a “control freak”, and someone who wears their “heart on their sleeve”. On being Prime Minister, she said it was “A role, I never thought I was meant to have.” In
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Most New Zealanders will have watched last week’s Albert Park demonstration against British woman’s rights campaigner ‘Posie Parker’ with alarm and disgust, as a surging mob of howling rainbow rights activists threatened to crush her, while the Police stood by and did nothing.
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com New Zealand is now well and truly in the grip of ‘woke’ madness. And it’s destroying the unity of our nation. What is “woke”? With origins in cultural Marxism, the general view is that it’s a movement that seeks social and political redress
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Thomas Sowell, the renowned American author, economist, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, could have been describing New Zealand when he wrote, “Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination”. While
Dr Muriel Newman tnzcpr.com On June 22, 1633, at a time when heretics were being burnt at the stake, Galileo, the Astronomer, Physicist, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa, was charged by the Inquisition with heresy for writing a book that claimed the earth orbited the
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Cyclone Gabrielle was a tragedy
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com At his first press conference after being elected unopposed as Labour’s new leader, Chris Hipkins was caught out by a journalist for being unable to explain the three articles of the Treaty of Waitangi. In this, he was following in the footsteps of his
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com New Zealand’s new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has had a dream start. Uncontested for the leadership, he was then thrust into centre stage by the dreadful weather events that caused havoc and a tragic loss of life in Auckland. While Labour MPs will be
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Appointed as New Zealand’s Prime Minister in 2017, Jacinda Ardern has been described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. She wooed the world with talk of kindness and compassion, while at home ruling like a dictator with little regard for public opinion
