Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 That photo last week of the government’s free lunch at Kaitaia Primary School was heartbreaking. It was half-a-cup of canned spaghetti in a polystyrene box
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 If you find yourself a little grim about the gills, or damp and drizzly in your insides, spare a thought for Sam (not his real name) who started
Graham Adams Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka 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 controversial report He Puapua has been seized upon by
Peter Williams bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash talks to Peter Williams about his involvement with the Mongrel Mob Kingdom of Hamilton in setting up an Education Trust to teach gang members with poor or no literacy skills. He explains how difficult it can be for “fully grown” adults to return to
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Using flawed reasoning to give 44km of the Bay of Plenty coastal and marine area to a few private individuals and groups is not what is expected of
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Is Labour supposed to be the party of labour or of capital? It’s often hard to tell these
Josh Van Veen Victoria Univerity of Wellington-Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz A speech by Todd Muller at the Te Puna Rugby Club last June told voters everything they need to know about the New Zealand National Party. It was, arguably, the most coherent statement on political philosophy by a
Branko Marcetic Victoria Univerity of Wellington-Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz All around the world, governments, economists, and even neoliberal bastions like the World Bank are urging a change in the direction of economic policy away from the mistakes of a decade ago – all except here in New Zealand, where
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. Henry Cooke from Stuff says: ACT voters are
Victoria University of Wellington-Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. He has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker. For critics who believed she had gone soft on China, Jacinda Ardern’s line that
Victoria University of Wellington-Te Herenga Waka 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 Judith Collins made no effort to hide the cat-with-the-cream
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 At last some discussion about He Puapua. The document has been hatched in secret at the behest of
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Forty years ago, when I first became Labour’s spokesman on health, I recall George Gair, the then Minister of Health, saying that if health spending continued to rise at the current rate there would come a time around 2030 where the entire national budget would
Lindsay Mitchell bassettbrashandhide.com Child poverty stats are a joke. If adults get collectively poorer, children get richer. Never has this been better illustrated than by a just-announced Stats NZ cock-up. Treasury, “…identified several respondents incorrectly reporting the superannuation payments they received, resulting in double counting their income
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com The Green Party’s Constitution has left the Party marooned in 2012. The Party is now dated. Section 9.2.1 specifies “two Leaders (one male, one female)”. Oh the horror! The Greens are discriminatory. And worse, boringly binary. Only the cis-gendered may lead. The
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Later this week, the Minister of Health is going to announce one more reform of the healthcare system. He had an article in yesterday’s Sunday Star-Times which began with the confident statement that “It’s pretty clear what’s wrong with our health system
