Dr Melissa Derby has explained how Benevolent racism is still racism and why it harms Maori instead of helping them. ‘Racism’ is a term we hear often these days, […] the debate over the meaning of the term seems to rest on the issue of power, and who has it. This,
Mark Latham was the last genuinely “Labor” Labor leader. Naturally, the party elite hated him. Yet, despite his rough-hewn persona, “Biff” achieved some significant wins during his time as Opposition leader: not only did he personally rein in the worst excesses of politicians’ Sun King-like retirement benefits, he was a
This week, Ruwan, Beth and Villa Education Trust’s Alwyn Poole discuss ACT’s Partnership Schools and Student Education Accounts and the Government’s plan to take control away from community-run schools.
Hello Everyone, students, Rams, people, They / them / theirs /Ze / hir / hir and Nige. I am so pleased to see all you deplorables this Saturday morning ready to learn how to use inclusive language. Today the lesson is about two words that erase other cultures and portray the United States as
National party The Government’s polytechnic and industry announcement yesterday will cost thousands of jobs and may be the death knell for some polytechnics. Moving apprentices back to polytechnics and creating one mega polytechnic will cost at least 1300 jobs in industry and probably as much again in polytechnics. Employers
ACT party The Foreign Minister must seek an explanation from the Chinese Consul General over the second attempt in 12 months by the Chinese Government to shut down an event at the Auckland University of Technology. Newsroom reported this morning that AUT stopped a commemoration of the anniversary of Tiananmen
Free Speech Coalition Foreign influence on AUT chills free speech Dr David Cumin AUT University’s cancellation of a commemoration of the Tiananmen Square Massacre betrays the freedoms of students and contradicts the purpose of a university. AUT’s claim that the cancellation of the peaceful commemorative event was due
The Cold War may be over, but the useful idiots of the world’s remaining communist powers still pullulate in the West, in academia especially. When Australian billionaire philanthropist Paul Ramsay bequeathed an extraordinary fortune to fund scholarship in Western civilisation at Australian universities, the media and academia erupted in
Hello Everyone, students, Rams, people, They / them / theirs /Ze / hir / hir and Nige. I am so pleased to see all you deplorables this Sunday afternoon ready to learn how to use inclusive language. Today the lesson is about drugs and addiction. The word Addicted and the phrase, Like Crack can
I often describe Tasmanian politics as a cross between a small-town Rotary Club and a special school. We make the shenanigans of the kidults in the Beehive look like the acme of cosmopolitan sophistication, by contrast. Worse, thanks to an electoral system every bit as arcane as New Zealand’s
Researchers at Otago University have made the following startling discovery…Trans women AKA Fake women AKA Men have a “physiological advantage over real women.” The rules which allow trans women to compete in elite women’s sporting divisions need to change because trans women have a physiological advantage, University of
Yesterday I shared with you all an e-mail from Otago University academics, Kevin Clements and Kieran Ford. They wanted to interview our team members and felt that our “participation would make a fantastic contribution to the project.” We disagreed and thanks to our amazing research team, AKA Sally we were
Anti-Semitism is so hot, right now. The political left is obsessed with hating the Jewish state with fanatical zeal. Even the BBC is starting to notice that the British Labour party has a bit of a problem with “the Jews”. Immigration New Zealand notoriously erased Israel from its map. It
