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Do We Need So Many Bureaucrats?

Do We Need So Many Bureaucrats?

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, a friend drew my attention to what has been an extraordinary increase in public service staff numbers over the last three years. And by

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Seymour Twice as Popular as Prebble
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Seymour Twice as Popular as Prebble

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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Labour’s Heroic Assumptions

Labour’s Heroic Assumptions

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 While Grant Robertson was announcing increased benefits and higher spending on social services I couldn’t help thinking that

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Maori Party versus the Rest of Us

Maori Party versus the Rest of Us

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Maori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer wrote a rip-snorter for the Herald on Wednesday. She neatly explained how she divides New Zealanders into three groups: (1) tangata of the whenua

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‘You Have Nothing to Fear’

‘You Have Nothing to Fear’

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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Cindy Kiro

Cindy Kiro

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Cindy Kiro’s appointment to the role of Governor-General is political. Judging by comments on Kiwiblog people have forgotten her time as Children’s Commissioner. She advocated that every child should be interviewed or assessed before age two and again at ages five, 13, and

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Racist Stats

Racist Stats

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 It turns out numbers can be racist. Not just people. Or laws. But numbers. That’s now the size of the racism hammer. Racism explains everything. It justifies anything.

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Chris Trotter Foolishly Invokes Mickey Savage

Chris Trotter Foolishly Invokes Mickey Savage

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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Another One Bites the Dust

Another One Bites the Dust

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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