Appointing Willie Jackson as Minister of Broadcasting is akin to employing a fox to guard the henhouse! Hello, it’s All things Political, with John Porter on Bay FM. Early in July legislation to create a new public media entity was introduced into Parliament by the recently-appointed Minister of
Here’s a question for you, New Zealand: what’s even the bloody point of your Bill of Rights? It is, after all, supposed to set out the rights and fundamental freedoms of New Zealanders – yet, its own text states that it cannot actually repeal, revoke or make ineffective any
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. It is becoming a drearily familiar experience for me to receive emails from social media platforms informing me that my content has been removed for violating “community guidelines”
familyfirst.org.nz *This post was written by Family First staff writers. This is a shocking case of a woman being sacked for declaring her Christian beliefs outside of the workplace, in her own private time. For 13 years Maureen Martin had been an exemplary employee of London & Quadrant
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. Have you noticed the ways in which New Zealand’s mainspring seems gradually to be unwinding with Jacinda
Once upon a time, universities were places where students went to learn how to think and to open their minds. Where ideas could be debated openly and freely. Nowadays, students go to learn what to think and to have their minds closed off and cauterised. Many students are completing a
Nathan Smith’s recent article “Let Them Have Traffic Lights” got me thinking about our addiction to the NZ media and the passive acceptance of the six o’clock news as generally accurate. The news must be correct or it would be rejected, right? Ardern prepared us for the Covid
There’s a meme doing the rounds: “The year is 2024. Your electric car won’t start for 48 hours because your status on social media was deemed too offensive.” What ridiculous, conspiracy theory nonsense! Except that, like too many “conspiracy theories” today, it’s just a few weeks at
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. On June 22, Jordan Peterson penned a tweet commenting on a recent gender transition surgery undergone by an actor who now goes
Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to COVID-19 since March 2020 and previously authored China’s Global
Written by Family First staff writers familyfirst.org.nz Over the past weeks, we’ve seen disturbing Government over-reach and directives into the beliefs of Bethlehem College, plus the unjust removal of Family First’s charitable status (primarily for their beliefs on marriage). There has also been a disgraceful
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com In the Q&A interview with Jack Tame this weekend, he made a statement to the effect that Greenpeace’s research had met the standard of education because it had been peer-reviewed. Ours hadn’t. That’s why they got charitable status and we
Christian Toto newsbusters.org Many Twitter users press the “publish” button knowing their thoughts could get them kicked off the platform. Or worse. Just google the names “Roseanne Barr” and “Justine Sacco” for Exhibits A and B. Liberal celebrities don’t have that fear. They can say almost anything on
Like Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, the political elite seem to think that truth is whatever they say it is. The question is who is to be master — that’s all. So, when Jacinda Ardern declared that she would be “your sole source of truth”, what she was really saying
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
familyfirst.org.nz Thank you to the (literally) thousands of you who responded with words of encouragement Tuesday – our inbox and social media was exploding! – and with financial support. We are truly humbled by the outpouring. (Perhaps we should send flowers and morning tea to the Charities Board for all
