Another election cycle is over and the game begins anew. I’d like to give a personal thank you to the over 36,000 who voted for New Conservative. The results were disappointing but ultimately helpful to provide some insight into where we should put our efforts. I know plenty
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International support for University of Canterbury China expert Anne-Marie Brady More overseas experts have added their voices to calls for the University of Canterbury to apologise to its China expert and to stop the review of her work. Professor Anne-Marie Brady is undergoing an internal review process after
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Information Satire The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Announced today that Aotearoa will become a republic. She will be relinquishing the role of Prime Minister immediately to become the country’s first President. It will involve a major re-hash of our system of government as she will hold executive powers.
Correction An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the party vote for Labour in Papakura as 16,363, which was the candidate vote for Judith Collins. The correct party vote for Labour was 12,822. At the outset, let me make my political preference clear. Since I took a
Election Jack Vowles (The Conversation): The 2020 NZ election saw record vote volatility — what does that mean for the next Labour government? Jason Walls and Chris Knox (Herald): 20 fascinating facts about the 2020 election you might have missed Stuff: Labour Day: A vote-by-vote analysis of New Zealand’
Press Release: ACT Party “Labour’s plan for small businesses is a contradictory mess”, says ACT’s small business spokesperson and Nelson employer Chris Baillie.“ Labour is piling new costs and red tape on SMEs with one hand and giving handouts with the other. It makes absolutely no sense. The
For the last 3 years, we have solidly accused Jacinda Ardern of being nothing more than the queen of slogans. And it has been absolutely true; she develops a slogan for every situation. Just think about it. “Let’s Do This” (we didn’t), “The Year of Delivery” (it wasn’
Today’s face of the day is winning praise this week for her particular brand of journalism. Those who don’t like her describe her as a journalist who likes to create the news rather than report on it. One recent example that stands out is how she went up
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Well, I suppose it’s nice to know that the great minds who get the big bucks for pontificating in the national daily are thinking alike to your humble correspondent. In my Insight column today I argue that Jacinda Ardern’s landslide election win may well turn out to be
As many of us on The BFD are aware, days before the election, The Australian newspaper took aim at Jacinda with their foreign editor saying she was a “poor Prime Minister” and undeserving of her widespread acclaim. Most of us here would agree. But shock, horror; post election, our cousins
