At Cape Runaway Cook sees for the first time the large double-hulled Maori war canoes who he has to fire on and run away from as they are decidedly not friendly. In the Bay of Plenty (which Cook thought looked fertile, cultivated and well-populated), the mood of the people is
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We cannot retain a Prime Minister who does not act constitutionally if we wish to remain a First World democracy In British Commonwealth countries the rule of law is a long-established principle relating to the way in which the country is governed, dating from Magna Carta in 1215 and the
“The more restrictions and prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be.” Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu “Never f**K with another man’s rice bowl” A lesser, unknown Chinese Philosopher When future historians describe what happened to the New Zealand economy in 2020 they will no doubt lay the
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Poor lefties. They were cheated out of indulging in their annual orgy of bashing all things male and white when ANZAC Day services were cancelled this year. Even worse, ordinary Australians and New Zealanders still got to show their patriotism and respect, as millions of candles flickered at dawn from
One Nation NSW leader Mark Latham has taken to Facebook to ask, “Who says Indigenous life expectancy has fallen?” Latham is referring to an ABC story which, if taken seriously, would suggest that some Aboriginal Australians live for a century or more. The story was, of course, about the upcoming
Jean Francois Marie de Surville is a French explorer (all French explorers have long names). He is looking for a fabled rich Pacific Island in 1769 (Tahiti), when he goes south from the Solomon Islands, becomes caught in a storm, and decides to try to find Tasman’s squiggly line
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When Great Britain emerged blinking from the rubble of the Second World War it was a nation hugely in debt and on the brink of a silent social revolution. The country’s war debt to the United States was in the order of $3.7 billion, and despite Harold Macmillan’
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This is a speech that Peter Brown MBE gave about 26 years ago in his capacity as Mayor of the Kaipara District Council. It was made at the ANZAC Day service in Dargaville. The Patriotic Fund mentioned was used to fund aide for servicemen and returned servicemen. Peter Brown MBE,
