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Open Letter: Don Brash to the Prime Minister

Open Letter: Don Brash to the Prime Minister

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Prime Minister, again and again, you and your Ministers refer to the “partnership” created by the Treaty of Waitangi. I wonder if you would be kind enough to

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Helping the Underclass and Ourselves at the Same Time

Helping the Underclass and Ourselves at the Same Time

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 Two bits of socio-economic news this last week collided. The first was that as many as 20% of Maori

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The Case FOR the ‘They Are Us’ Film

The Case FOR the ‘They Are Us’ Film

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Despite the avalanche of feelings expressed against the They Are Us film being made – something that blogger Martyn

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The Case AGAINST the ‘They Are Us’ Film

The Case AGAINST the ‘They Are Us’ Film

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The last week has been full of debate over plans to make a film about the 2019 terrorist

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NZ First Unbowed
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NZ First Unbowed

Josh Van Veen Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Josh Van Veen is former member of NZ First and worked as a parliamentary researcher to Winton Peters from 2011 to 2013. He has a Masters in Politics from the University of Auckland. His thesis examined class voting

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The End Is Nigh. In Other News

The End Is Nigh. In Other News

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 We were admonished on the blog by “Otway1” for our “seemingly deliberate scientific ignorance” because “[t]he evidence for anthropogenic (manmade) global warming driving climate change is overwhelming.” I

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Benefit Fraud Prosecutions Heading for Zero
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Benefit Fraud Prosecutions Heading for Zero

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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photography of school room

Back to School!

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Great news for my kids this week: no more grumbling in the classroom about how the planet is coming out of an ice age. They can now go full

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Cash for Access to Politicians Continues
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Cash for Access to Politicians Continues

Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Should anyone have trust in politicians, given the manner in which they solicit money from the wealthy? Probably not, since virtually every party in Parliament in recent times has

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No Better Time to Be a Beneficiary
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No Better Time to Be a Beneficiary

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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Who’s Next?

Who’s Next?

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 The denunciations are coming so thick and so fast it’s impossible to keep up. Making the movie “They Are Us” dramatising saintly Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern should put

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Colonization Gave Maori Cause for Hope

Colonization Gave Maori Cause for Hope

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 So, in the opinions of Peeni Henare and Willie Jackson, two of the weaker minds in our ministry, Paul

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