Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Waitangi Day was the spectacle we have come to expect. Like a reality TV show, politicians attended to supposedly pay their respects, while radicals acted out their disrespect. Most Kiwis didn’t bother about it and just enjoyed another summer day off work. This year
Harry Palmer Maybe it’s because I was born in an overseas country that I find the Maori ‘warriors’ at Waitangi both amusing and, as the years go by, increasingly threatening in their behavior towards the elected representatives of the general population of New Zealand – the Prime Minister and MPs
Anyone who thinks science is pure and incorruptible has clearly never studied the history of science. From Phrenology to Lysenkoism, Glacial Cosmology to Cold Fusion, science is littered with frauds and vicious ideologues. Certainly, the self-correcting nature of science means that they get weeded out – eventually – but the fact remains
Martyn Smith University of Sheffield theconversation.com Visitors to Japan are usually primed to look up – at the vast skyscrapers, the ornate temple gates, the traditional timber-framed guesthouses. Those who look down at their feet, though, might have noticed something equally intriguing on the ground. Ornate manhole covers in wrought
Augusto Zimmermann Augusto Zimmermann is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education. He is also a former Associate Law Dean (Research) at Murdoch University, a former Commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia. Professor Zimmermann is the author of several books on Brazilian Constitutional
Simone Seymour Glossary * revolutionary agitators – all those (by whatever name) who would destroy what is called Western civilisation as it is known today. (Radicals, activists, extremists and seditionists might be other names for them.) * sedition – the act (often sneaky) of influencing or persuading people to disrupt or act against the
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com This very website recently
Lawrence W. Reed Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s Interim President, having previously served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). fee.org Americans, Europeans, and Africans know a great deal about their own past but likely not much about the history of the consequential, faraway nation of
Tiger The First Fleet: The Convict Voyage that founded Australia 1787-1788 Author: Jonathan King ISBN 0-333-33855-3 I picked up a copy of this book at a local second-hand bookstore. It turns out it was signed by the author on the bicentenary of the fleet’s arrival at Port Jackson after
Far too much has been written and said about the Treaty of Waitangi. I say this because the great Maori leader, Sir Apirana Ngata published the definitive work on it in 1922. There really is no need for anything else. A copy of his book, The Treaty of Waitangi – an
Mike Butler Mike Butler wrote ‘The Treaty: Basic Facts,’ which is available at trosspublishing.com Complaints that the Luxon coalition Government is about to re-write the Treaty of Waitangi are a bit rich considering that the treaty was quietly re-written under another administration nearly forty years ago. In 1986, with
February 5th, 2024 I read with interest Lushington’s piece on the UK Bomber Command in the Second World War. My father served with Bomber Command, being a rear gunner with 76 Squadron out of Linton-on-Ouse airfield near York. He related to me that most of his fellow servicemen hated
Caleb Anderson First published on NZCPR In the eighteenth century, the idea took root among the thoughtful classes of the “noble savage”. Genevan Philosopher Jean-Jacque Rousseau was prominent in painting a picture of indigenous societies as inherently peaceful and equal. Many of the eighteenth-century European explorers set sail with these
Is the Biden administration preparing to pull the worst betrayal of an ally by a Western nation since Czechoslovakia was dismembered and handed to the Hitler regime? In 1938, Chamberlain and Deladier cravenly sold out the Czechs in a futile attempt to mollify Hitler’s aggressive avarice. In 2024, Joe
Ross Baker One New Zealand Foundation Inc www.onenzfoundation.co.nz While we continue to argue over whether Maori had sovereignty in 1840, has anyone ever stopped to ask, “Did Maori really have sovereignty over New Zealand in 1840”? British resident James Busby’s 1835 Declaration of Independence definitely did
