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This Just Beggars Belief
Why do PM Luxon and Minister Bishop’s 100 foreign investors ‘visiting’ NZ this week comprise 50 local Auckland firms?
Trump Compares Starmer’s Britain to Communist China
If governments can compel tech companies to break encryption, digital privacy risks becoming a privilege reserved for the ideologically compliant – not an inalienable right.
The Other Thing He Got Called Out On
Abducting people and sending them to fight and die in a military campaign they clearly don’t believe in enough to join voluntarily is one of the worst, most tyrannical things a government can do.
New Study Reveals DEI Training Increases Hostility
DEI culture has become toxic and counterproductive – so much so that it exacerbates the very problems it claims to resolve.
The Parliamentary Process and the GMO Bill
The challenges that we face result from the distorted and incomplete understanding of biotechnology. To combat this we need to understand more fully what is at stake and find the fulcrum points where we can leverage a deeper understanding.
The Suspension of Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine
Kiev would likely miss out on time-sensitive and high-value intelligence it needed to strike moveable Russian targets.
Wellington Has Become a Waste of Time
Whether it’s Richard Prebble’s Waitangi Tribunal, or a whole bunch of other Wellington formerly prestigious institutions, it’s best to have nothing to do with the place anymore.
What Happened to Lobbying Reform in NZ?
We believe that the most critical lobbying reform is the establishment of a mandatory register for lobbying activities. This is commonplace in other OECD countries.
Prebble’s Letter Re the Tribunal
The treaty as currently interpreted has become a socialist manifesto and a source of never-ending grievance. I am not willing to carry out the Tribunal’s proposed strategic plan.
What Coolidge’s Inauguration Can Teach Us Now
Calvin Coolidge was only president who actually shrank the government.
Is the Deep State Operating as an Alternative Government?
Federal workers are in fight-back mode, coalescing to defy DOGE.
Information to Empower Your Feedback
This is our moment to voice the good and the bad. Let the commission know your experience and how your life was impacted by the government C-19 response.
Flawed Testing and Culling Drive Up Prices
The failure to contain “the virus” raises urgent questions about the effectiveness of current surveillance and response strategies.
NZ Governments Enjoy an ‘Executive Paradise’
A longer parliamentary term won’t change that. It will simply extend the length of time ministers get to spend in paradise.