Dr Muriel Newman NZCPR.com While councils are a crucial target in the iwi march into governance, radical claims are being made across the board. Just last week, Dr Keri Lawson Te Aho of Otago University blamed colonisation for the suicide rate of Maori men being more than double that
Dr Muriel Newman NZCPR.com Under Jacinda Ardern’s progressive Government, the momentum for change is intensifying. A new radicalised narrative now claims that Maori have been oppressed since colonial times and their over-representation in disadvantage is the fault of the descendants of the colonisers. Meng Foon, Labour’s new
Dr Peter Ridd talks with the Director of Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs, Gideon Rozner about his fight for freedom of speech on climate change. In May 2018, after an academic career of more than 30 years, Peter had his employment terminated as a professor of physics at
Mark Imagine a criminal trial where a lawyer threatened a witness with prosecution, bankruptcy, and humiliation if that witness did not say something about a defendant that the witness knew to be false. I would hope that if that actually happened for real today, the lawyer would be facing serious
As someone who was living in Britain when the Princess Diana phenomenon first took hold, I have witnessed first hand how the media can harass a private individual, and once she became a member of the Royal Family, she was fair game. There was at least some protection for her
This is what happens when a nation’s citizens are disarmed, and the government decides what you can say in private and public. Imagine if these real Journalists at the Epoch times had handguns. Notice the police in drag brazenly walk in and not even hide the fact that they
David Theobald I am not a lawyer and the extensive professional training I had earlier in life was in a totally different field of endeavour. During this, I learnt that detail was incredibly important but only if laid on top of a thorough understanding of basic principles. And I then
Redline Information Satire The Committee of Disobedient Women has intercepted an email from Dr Emma Eejut, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Massey University to the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Jan Thomas. Dear Jan, Thank you for your courageous move. I think 10 pages of blether** should tie any of the students game
Talk is cheap but ACT leader David Seymour has put his words into action. An organised group of Trans activists has bullied and twice now, deplatformed a feminist women’s rights group, preventing them from holding a feminist event with an overseas speaker. Initially the feminist event was going to
UK: Tommy Robinson in court after being sued by Syrian schoolboy for libel
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We have written previously on The BFD about Massey University’s recently announced free speech (snort!) policy and rules. Sadly, just like George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth which was actually the Ministry of Propaganda, their free speech is anything but free. Stephen Franks writes that “Massey Council has doubled
UCLA-Berkeley was the home of the modern free-speech movement. Now, it’s the home of its death. Not a natural death, either, but a murder in the first degree. Berkeley has been the site of violent riots by left-wing extremists intent on shutting down speaking events they don’t like.
NZCPR.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Late last month the Minister of Justice announced
The whole point of “tolerance” is we have to tolerate what we sometimes feel is intolerable – there is no virtue otherwise!
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