Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Prime Minister, again and again, you and your Ministers refer to the “partnership” created by the Treaty of Waitangi. I wonder if you would be kind enough to
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 Two bits of socio-economic news this last week collided. The first was that as many as 20% of Maori
Hobson’s Pledge Trust “Research” published by the New Zealand Royal Society that claimed Maori travelled to the Antarctic at least 1000 years before Europeans was ridiculed this week as unadulterated nonsense by straight-talking knight Sir Bob Jones. See Disgraceful NZ Royal Society The so-called “research” by a conservation biologist
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
The hit movie Joker was not just great cinema, it was often eerily familiar to those of us of a certain age. The film draws heavily on the milieu of late 70s and early 80s New York, when the pre-Giuliani city was a wasteland of crime and dereliction. Martin Scorcese’
It’s an old cliche: “no jury would convict him/her”. In the case of of Gary Plauché, it seems likely that no jury in his state of Louisiana would have. Born Leon Gary Plauché in 1945, he led a fairly ordinary life: he served in the USAF, rising to
Brisket, the Poor Man’s Butcher’s Cut. Winter down under is a good opportunity to sharpen your knives and try a long-cook culinary experience while making big savings in the process. Brisket is a singularly unsavoury name for any cut of meat that derives its naming rights from Scandinavian
Hoaxes are very easy to pull off, but very tiresome to debunk. Consider the Orson Welles radio broadcast of War of the Worlds: newspapers ran wild with claims that it sparked mass panic. That is absolutely untrue, yet the hoax is still widely believed. Crop circles immediately grabbed the tiny
John Maunder 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 197-201. The Greenlandic Vikings’ Apogee The Greenlandic Vikings’ apogee
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A private Super Fund purveyor, Sam Stubbs, gained ill-deserved headlines when he described the decision by Rob Muldoon to scrub Labour’s 1974 Super Scheme as, “The Worst Decision by a New Zealand politician ever”. Plainly Stubbs knows bugger all about New Zealand history, or
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The New Zealand Royal Society continues to disgrace its British parent body’s prescribed rationale of absolute respect for factual scientific evidence, every time it touches on Maori issues Its latest unadulterated nonsense, published over the heading “New Research Shows Maori Travelled to the Antarctic
The latest hoo-ha attaching to our current Prime Minister is the story that there is a film to be made about the Muslim massacre in Christchurch on 15 March 2019, under the title, “They Are Us”. We know who the “They” are. And the “Us” presumably covers the rest of
Hobson’s Pledge Trust When National Party MP Paul Goldsmith unfashionably remarked, last Tuesday, that colonisation benefited Maori, the howls of outrage from some Maori MPs were hysterical, and quaint, considering their generous salaries and perks courtesy of the coloniser system are proof of advantage. Former Labour Cabinet Minister Michael
