The name-calling began almost as soon as it became public that I had been nominated and accepted as a candidate for Council in the Otamatea ward of Kaipara’s local body elections. I was included in a ‘hit piece’ that principally maligned mayoral candidate Victoria de la Varis Woodcock
The late, great Christopher Hitchens tried to remind us that, “Every time you violate or propose to violate the free speech of someone else… you’re making a rod for your own back.” We’re already seeing the proof of this: left-wing groups who advocate banning “hate speech” are
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
Information Opinion In a recent article it was revealed that the NZ Police had conspired with Interpol and NZ Immigration in order to dig dirt on two Australian journalists so as to defame and slander them and block them from entering New Zealand. It was also revealed that the NZ
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion One of my favourite
Catherine Salgado newsbusters.org Catherine Salgado is a Staff Writer with Media Research Center’s NewsBusters’ Free Speech America. She also has a column, Washington’s Bayonette, on The Rogue Review and her own SubStack newsletter, Pro Deo et Libertate. Catherine previously wrote for The National Pulse and is a
JL Kate Hannah has a predetermined view of what is true and not true but was somehow placed in charge of trolling dis- and mis-information. Not content with just looking at perceived falsehoods, she has made it her mission to discredit all information with which she disagrees: often without
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org Information Opinion August has been an utter disgrace to our nation, showing just how serious Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is about smashing freedom of expression in New Zealand. I have been writing about this glaringly fascist tendency in our PM since she was given the role
Gabriela Pariseau newsbusters.org Gabriela is a writer and researcher in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Students For Life of America and Iowa
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com At the freedom march in Wellington, NZDSOS’s Dr Matt Shelton addressed the crowds about medical freedom. He reads Vera Sharav’s speech on the 75th anniversary of Nuremberg and speaks about the lead-up to the Holocaust. The genocide and
It’s been a long legal slog for Zoe Buhler, but the Australian woman has finally won a free speech victory in court. Still, the two-year court grind proves that the process is ultimately the punishment. Buhler made headlines around the world in 2020, when she was arrested by
There were two big wins for free speech in Australia this week: one for a working-class mum from Ballarat, the other for a high-profile sports commentator. One was arrested for a Facebook post, the other cancelled for a joke. Ballarat woman Zoe Buhler was arrested, pregnant and in
While the New Zealand media sit on their hands pretending there is nothing to see in our story about NZ Police using Interpol to dig dirt on Avi Yemini, Andrew Bolt has featured the story last night in Australia on Sky News. Andrew Bolt said that the plot, revealed by
Barbara McKenzie Wellington Mayoral candidate stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. The Victoria University of Wellington Students Association (VUWSA) recently issued a defamatory press statement to the effect that they were ‘uninviting’ me from their mayoral debate, due to my ‘racist and transphobic views’, while also
As uncovered by The BFD, the New Zealand police — not Immigration NZ, apparently, as was earlier claimed — actively sought to have two journalists banned from entering the country. Their internal communications left no doubt that the reasons were entirely political, profiling the journalists as “far-right” (a purely subjective political
PA Pundits – International Tim Graham papundits.wordpress.com Tim Graham is the executive editor at NewsBusters, and he is the director of media analysis at the Media Research Center. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before
