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Benefits Viewed as Self-Reliance

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under

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Getting Educated

Getting Educated

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 In hindsight the best education I got was driving trucks. I did it for the money and thought education was what happened at school and university. But looking back

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Pamphlet Truths Spark Outrage

Pamphlet Truths Spark Outrage

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 A few days ago, I was phoned by a reporter for some organisation called Te Ao Maori News to ask if I knew anything about a pamphlet which

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Child Poverty Reduction Minister Is a Foolish Risk-Taker
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Child Poverty Reduction Minister Is a Foolish Risk-Taker

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under

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The Thorny Hate-Speech Debate Sorts Sheep from Goats

The Thorny Hate-Speech Debate Sorts Sheep from Goats

Graham Adams democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom The hate-speech debate is quickly becoming an arena where reputations go to die. Kris Faafoi, the Minister

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Transformational Government: What We Stand to Lose

Transformational Government: What We Stand to Lose

Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com I received an email the other day from a friend, a retired journalist and self-described bleeding-heart lefty (most journalists lean to the left, though the good ones don’t let it influence their work), who complained that political correctness was sucking all the fun

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Natural and Built Environments Act (RMA Replacement)
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Natural and Built Environments Act (RMA Replacement)

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Submission on Natural & Built Environments Act (Exposure Draft) August 2021 Overview 1. I would have liked to help refine a Bill that would comprehensively puncture our catastrophic

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Radical Reform Coming to a Supermarket near You

Radical Reform Coming to a Supermarket near You

Dr Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The supermarket sector is finally about to receive some serious government intervention. Following a scathing report from the Commerce Commission, it’s now almost

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Rewriting History: Apologies for the Dawn Raids

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments It was Prime Minister Helen Clark who started the practice of making apologies to groups who could be nursing

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What Is the Government Doing about Rampant Wealth?

What Is the Government Doing about Rampant Wealth?

Dr Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Government policies have fuelled the wealth and inequality explosion, so is Labour planning to do anything about it? At this stage, the signs are

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Labour’s Sacrificing of the Poor
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Labour’s Sacrificing of the Poor

Dr Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson like to think of themselves as left-wing politicians. So why aren’t they prioritising and championing the vulnerable at

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Lack of Supply and Vaccine Mismanagement

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The biggest problem so far for the vaccination programme has been the lack of supply of the Pfizer doses, and debate continues as to whether

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