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Beware of the Media in the Home-Stretch

Beware of the Media in the Home-Stretch

Michael Bassett 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 bassettbrashandhide.com The election campaign is in its final, frenzied stage. I suspect most people have already made up their minds.

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Seymour Is Not for Turning on a Treaty Referendum

Seymour Is Not for Turning on a Treaty Referendum

Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. bassettbrashandhide.com Despite the well-documented failures of the Ardern-Hipkins government — whether in health, law and order, education or homelessness — it has been extraordinarily successful in one particular area. That is, the stealthy

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Gender Now Has No Relationship to Sex

Gender Now Has No Relationship to Sex

Rodney Hide Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 bassettbrashandhide.com It’s a simple question: is a man who wants to be a woman a transvestite or an actual woman? The gender ideology rampant in our schools, workplaces and

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Labour Is the Organ Grinder’s Monkey

Labour Is the Organ Grinder’s Monkey

Michael Bassett 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 bassettbrashandhide.com Without so much as batting an eyelid, Chris Hipkins told an audience on Saturday that there had been “more

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Scientists Speak at Senate Hearing, September 2023

Scientists Speak at Senate Hearing, September 2023

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com South Carolina senators recently held a meeting to hear from health and scientific professionals highly concerned about significant problems with Covid injections. Below we mention three of the presentations. Plasmid: Small circular, double-stranded DNA molecules able to replicate independently of the

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About Those Covid-19 Witch Hunts

About Those Covid-19 Witch Hunts

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com ‘Salem witch hunt begins.’ – www.history.com Did you join the baying crowd when they came? Did you remain silent? Or did you – with the hallmark of the brave – stand up, speak out, and advocate for those of us who were

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Why My Party Vote Will Be Going to ACT

Why My Party Vote Will Be Going to ACT

Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com I don’t suppose anybody will be terribly surprised when I say that my party vote will be going to ACT on 14 October. I was a proud

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The Problem With Their Narrative About Maori

lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The heavily promoted narrative, which has ramped up over the last six years, is that Maori somehow have special vulnerabilities which arise from outside forces they cannot control; that contemporary society fails to meet their needs. They are not receptive to messages and opportunities in the same

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Where Is a Credible Left-Wing Party?

Chris Trotter Victoria University of Wellington democracy project.nz IN THE CURRENT MIX of electoral alternatives, there is no longer a credible left-wing party. Not when “a credible left-wing party” is defined as: a class-oriented, mass-based, democratically-structured political organisation; dedicated to promoting ideas sharply critical of laissez-faire capitalism; and committed

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Why Won’t Our Journalists Do Their Jobs?

Why Won’t Our Journalists Do Their Jobs?

Michael Bassett 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 bassettbrashandhide.com As the probability that National and Act will win the election grows stronger every day the left is going

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There’s an Alarming Trend in Benefit Numbers

There’s an Alarming Trend in Benefit Numbers

Lindsay Mitchell 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 commission and exhibits

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The Freedom Movement Must Consolidate its Votes

The Freedom Movement Must Consolidate its Votes

Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com As predicted, the fledgling ‘freedom’ parties are

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Is Ardern a Liability for Labour?

Is Ardern a Liability for Labour?

Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This piece was first published at The Platform bassettbrashandhide.com Ministers are pretending the former PM has simply vanished. Late last week, Tova O’Brien asked Grant Robertson on her Stuff podcast

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Who Won the Leaders’ Debate?

Who Won the Leaders’ Debate?

Honourable Richard Prebble The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. bassettbrashandhide.com There was a

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The Cullen Fund Is Doing Well…

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com On the surface the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, the so-called Cullen Fund, which is now 20 years old, has done

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Our Media Still Don’t Get It

Michael Bassett 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. bassettbrashandhide.com If Labour ministers and our left-leaning media knew more about New Zealand’s political history they would stop giving

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