Ever since Rousseau fondly imagined “noble savages”, it’s been fashionable among certain types of people to imagine that primitive peoples wafted about like hippies with flint tools. Surviving paleolithic cultures are patronised as “at one with their environment” and peaceable and “Zen like”. The truth is brutally different. As
Phyllo, philo, filo pastry: the Eastern Med pastry Phyllo means leaf in Greek and is the healthy person’s version of the French mille feuille. The Greek version of puff pastry, unlike its Francophone cousin, contains no fat or butter and is made from flour, water and a little bit
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com In their report Towards a Better Democracy, the 1986 Labour Government’s Royal Commission into the Electoral System, not only recommended changing our voting system to MMP, but they raised a number of other important constitutional matters. One that is particularly relevant to our present
Josh Van Veen Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Josh Van Veen is former member of NZ First and worked as a parliamentary researcher to Winton Peters from 2011 to 2013. He has a Masters in Politics from the University of Auckland. His thesis examined class voting
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom Jacinda Ardern has offered herself as a hostage to fortune
The National Party agrees that teaching New Zealand history to our kids should be a core part of the curriculum, but we have serious concerns around elements of the current proposal, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories is designed to be taught every year
Free Press ACT Party ACT’s Education spokesperson, Chris Baillie, has prepared a submission on the Government’s proposed history curriculum. He’s inviting as many people as possible to sign it. The curriculum is one of those documents that forms a wider tug of war for the soul of
Dear Editor On Sunday’s RNZ show Media Watch there was an item about an article on a Waffen SS volunteer who lied to Immigration when he came to New Zealand after the war. The item was talking about the article in the June edition of North and South magazine.
Alphabet: it’s one of the first things we teach our children. Even before we teach them that they’re racist (if they’re white) or a victim (if they’re not), and that what they pack in their undies has nothing to do with their “gender”. “A-B-C-D, E-F-G…”, you’
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 Purple Flower. Thank you Purple Flower for taking the time to craft such
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The proposed History curriculum is so bad that it is hard to know where to start. Indeed, in the limited time I have to write a submission, I
Hobson’s Pledge Trust We agree that the draft history curriculum divides history into villains and victims, contains significant gaps, and pushes a narrow set of highly political stories from our past, as a new petition on the ACT Party’s website states. The draft curriculum’s “three big ideas”
