History
1930-40s Housing Problem and Political Propaganda
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
Ardern’s Gamble on Shutting down the ‘White Privilege’ Debate
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
Paul Goldsmith – National Submits on New Zealand History Curriculum
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
The NZ History Curriculum
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
Letter to the Editor: Nazi Willi Huber
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.
The History of Your A-B-C.
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-
The BFD Comment of the Week
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
Submission on the Proposed School History Curriculum
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
Ask for an Honest History Curriculum
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”
The Slavery Golriz Cares Not to Mention
New Zealand Greens’ list MP Golriz Ghahraman sure does like to talk up the evils of slavery and colonialism. She wants statues of New Zealand’s “colonial past” removed. She also makes a big noise about supporting the “Black Lives Matter” movement, whose central platform is “reparations” for slavery. But
Winston Churchill: Great as a Statesman, Disastrous as a Father
Francis Phillips mercatornet.com Churchill & Son By Josh Ireland. 2021. 464 pages When you read of domestic conflicts on a large and violent scale, you go back to the Greeks: Agamemnon’s unhappy family and the fated House of Atreus. The Churchills inhabited a similar world, full of sound,
The BFD Food Column: Spicy Red Lentil and Vegetable Soup
Trendy Health Soups Cooking has become incredibly confusing for us self-anointed experts. I can’t begin to imagine how you all cope with the avalanche of alternative and health narrative-driven confusion recipes and post-modern industrial ingredients. Once tofu was the go-to meat, fish, vegan protein alternative.
The Controversial History of Colourizing Black-And-White Photos
Roshaya Rodness University of Toronto Roshaya Rodness received their PhD from McMaster University in 2018 in the Department of English & Cultural Studies. Their research looks specifically to the history of queer film and visual culture to explore radical and promissory forms of social being that are unexpectedly revealed by