Skip to content

History

Auckland Zoo Celebrates a Century of Wild Life

Auckland Zoo Celebrates a Century of Wild Life

Jane Healy Communications Manager Auckland Zoo Auckland Zoo is celebrating its centenary today, a century during which generations of New Zealanders have been at the heart of its journey to becoming the wildlife conservation organisation it is today. “On the eve of venturing into our next century together, there couldn’

Members Public
It Is Really Simple: One Man One Vote

It Is Really Simple: One Man One Vote

Hello, it’s “All things Political” with John Porter on Bay FM, and today I’m reading an e-mail I was sent recently. These are not my words but seemingly, they represent the feeling of a hell of lot of New Zealanders. Firstly, we have to start telling the truth

Members Public
The History and Trends of NZ By-Elections

The History and Trends of NZ By-Elections

On Saturday was the long-awaited Hamilton West by-election. The final result was much in line with what had been forecast but which many of us didn’t dare to hope would actually eventuate! A swing of 21 per cent from Labour to National: annihilation territory for the socialists. Whereas an

Members Public
Labor’s Week of Great Big Hypocrisy

Labor’s Week of Great Big Hypocrisy

It was surely one of the most staggering moments of hypocrisy in Australian history: in the same week that the Labor government connived to censure a former PM for the first time since Federation, it was indulging in an orgy of lionising former PM Gough Whitlam. Where’s the hypocrisy?

Members Public
Still Waiting for UXOs to Be Removed

Still Waiting for UXOs to Be Removed

Rob Perez Honolulu Star-Advertiser This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Promised Land A Failed Housing Pledge to Native Hawaiians For the better part of two

Members Public
North Korea and a Regional Arms Race

North Korea and a Regional Arms Race

Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato The recent claim by Kim Jong Un that North Korea plans to develop the world’s most powerful nuclear force may well have been more bravado than credible threat. But that doesn’t mean it can be ignored. The best guess is that North Korea

Members Public
It’s All Lies: Deaths are Surging

It’s All Lies: Deaths are Surging

Fred Too Several days ago I noticed that Statistics NZ released its September quarterly births and deaths figures on 17 November. Deaths in the year to September 2022 had rocketed to 38,052, up 10 per cent from 34,578 in 2021. Deaths had already risen by six per cent

Members Public
sliced cucumber and green vegetable in blue plastic bowl

The Real Paleo Diet

Ceren Kabukcu University of Liverpool Ceren Kabukcu is an archaeobotanical scientist with broad interests in Quaternary palaeoecology, and plant food and wood fuel use by hunter-gatherers and the earliest farmers in Southwest Asia and Europe. We humans can’t stop playing with our food. Just think of all the different

Members Public
Will Jacinda Respect This Science?

Will Jacinda Respect This Science?

It’s official: there’s no such thing as “indigenous people”. Not, at least, unless you’re a natural-born member of the Khoe-San groups of Southern Africa. Everywhere else – you’re just an immigrant. A “coloniser”, if you will. It’s science. As scientists find more ancient human DNA, sample

Members Public
A Force to Be Reckoned With

A Force to Be Reckoned With

Teddy Roosevelt has quite a reputation for not having too many damns to give. As a sickly child suffering terribly from asthma, he was warned to take it easy or he wouldn’t live long. He replied to the doctor, “I’m going to do all the things you tell

Members Public
Will JFK Records Remain Secret?

Will JFK Records Remain Secret?

Adam Dick ronpaulinstitute.org Fifty-nine years ago this week, President John F Kennedy was assassinated. These many years later, the United States government continues to hold in secret piles of information related to the assassination. After the popular theatrical run of director Oliver Stone’s movie JFK that dramatically challenged

Members Public
The Winners are…

The Winners are…

We have come to the end of yet another yet fantastic book giveaway for our subscribers. The prizes are three copies of Adam Plover’s new book  New Zealand; the Benefits of Colonisation. Today we announce which three lucky BFD members have each won a copy of this book. We

Members Public
Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Yesterday returned serviceman Neill Boak celebrated his 100th birthday. He is the first Kiwi to receive a 100th birthday card from the new head of state, King Charles III. After the war, he returned to his field of surveying: establishing his own company and working notable projects, including the Auckland

Members Public