Elizabeth Rata Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Professor Elizabeth Rata, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland The He Puapua Report proposes revolutionary change for New Zealand. The question of how we have arrived at a crossroads where New Zealanders will have to choose between an ethno-nationalist
Try to imagine the sky without stars. It’s almost inconceivable, yet we know it must have been true at some time. Stars today are formed when clouds of interstellar dust and gas condense under their own gravity. Eventually, the sheer force of gravity causes elements to begin to fuse
As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD. Today’s comment was written by Rebecca . Thank you Rebecca for taking the time to craft such an interesting
There is nothing quite like a good thick satisfying soup on a cold winter’s evening; that’s the general sentiment expressed by most regarding soups. Personally I have never been a soup man, always party to the belief that soup just takes up valuable and limited space in your
Dear Editor Part-Maori Rawiri Waititi has dredged up the hoary tale of how the tribes ‘lost’ all but 4% of the land they once owned. Anybody less ignorant of our history than he appears to be knows that most of the 96% was sold eagerly by the tribal chiefs in
Chongyi Feng University of Technology Sydney Dr Feng Chongyi is Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology, Sydney and adjunct Professor of History, Nankai University, Tianjin. He is China’s first holder of PhD in contemporary Chinese history and served as head of China Studies at UTS for 11
Kai Tangata A war party, a war party! Footsteps pound the sacred warpath Many heads are sought Many slaves are sought This is the work of Tumatauenga.1 Behold The chisel of Mataora2 The strong back The base of the spine The buttock spirals The thigh The war belt The
He is not so mighty yet that he is above fear; nay, doubt ever gnaws him J R R Tolkien, “The Lord of the Rings” 100 years ago, the first step was taken on the road to tens of millions of deaths and decades of misery for nearly ¼ of humanity.
John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The following are extracts are from pages 203- 207. When I was in
It was in the 1980s that the left-elite were shocked by revelations that George Orwell had maintained a list of suspected British Stalinists. That anyone who’d read Animal Farm could be shocked by Orwell’s antipathy to Stalinism is an object lesson in Doublethink. Because Orwell, while still a
hobsonspledge.nz In a letter on Treaty Settlements Office Ministerial letterhead dated 9 September 2019, Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little, in regards to a pamphlet arguing that everyone ought to be treated equally before the law, stated: “The pamphlet….. curiously ignores the fact that Maori were not treated equally before
As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD. Today’s comment was written by Arthur. Thank you Arthur for taking the time to craft such an interesting
Is Charles Hamilton an oppressed, neglected cultural giant? After all, who reading this can name anything he wrote? His books are mostly long out of print and adaptations of his work forgotten. Yet Hamilton’s thousands of stories were once bestsellers, adapted for radio, television, comic books and stage plays.
Smoked Paprika the Next Big Thing Paprika as we all know is made from ground up dried peppers. Peppers come in all shapes, names, colours, sizes, sweetness and levels of heat. Peppers as everyone should know are indigenous to South America and were introduced to Europe and then filtered on
The great Richard Feynman warned that “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool”. The problem, though, is that some people want to be fooled so very, very badly. So they’ll happily believe the most obvious nonsense, if it’
