The coalition Government is investing in social housing for New Zealanders who are most in need of a warm dry home, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. Budget 2024 will allocate $140 million in new funding for 1,500 new social housing places to be provided by Community Housing Providers (CHPs)
The Greens seem to be lurching from one crisis to the next. Golriz Ghahraman was nailed for pinching designer clothes, James Shaw quit in shame, Chloe Swarbrick chants racist and genocidal slogans, Marama Davidson is a racist misandrist, Ricardo ‘El Woko Loco’ Menandez-March has been swearing in parliament and Julie
Dr Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz It’s being explained as an “inadvertent error”. However, National MP David MacLeod’s excuse for failing to disclose $178,000 in donations for his
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Media won’t retract their live-on-air comments for the unvaccinated to be refused medical treatment, socially ostracised and forcibly removed from vaccinated communities. The Broadcasting Standards Authority did not uphold a complaint about Hilary Barry’s denigration of the unvaccinated as sub-human when she said the unvaccinated were not welcome
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com As the new Government puts the finishing touches to this month’s Budget, they will undoubtedly have had their hands full dealing with the economic mess that Labour created. Not only was Labour a grossly incompetent manager of the economy, but they also set out
Kiri Allan told us all that she’d defend her charges, that there was a ‘technical point of law’ that needed to be explored in a trial, that she was innocent and that her case would prove that out. And then on the morning of the trial after months of
NewZealandDoc Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand. Yesterday, on 20 May 2024, New Zealand’s Health and Disability Commission handed down its decision on
Dr Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Willie Jackson will participate in the prestigious Oxford Union debate on Thursday, following in David Lange’s footsteps. Coincidentally, Jackson has also followed Lange’s
Dear Editor This week I attended my offspring’s graduation in Wellington. I sat through one of Victoria University’s 3-hour-long ceremonies. It should have been about the kids graduating, but the first 30–40 minutes were dedicated to honouring the recently retired State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes. He was
You have to give it to the opposition, not only are they trying to gaslight us all into believing they were sound economic managers but now they are hypocritically talking about smoke and mirrors for the up-coming budget. Labour finance spokeswoman Barbara Edmonds says she isn’t convinced the Government
Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published at The Platform. bassettbrashandhide.com Twenty years on, judges are quietly awarding coastal rights to iwi. Early this month, an hour-long documentary was released by TVNZ to
Hon Chris Bishop Minister of Housing The Government has announced a series of immediate actions in response to the independent review of Kainga Ora – Homes and Communities, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “Kainga Ora is a large and important Crown entity, with assets of $45 billion and over $2.5
Rodney Hide Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 bassettbrashandhide.com It’s been a while since I have written. I have tried. But I have not had anything useful to say. My concern has always been public policy. What
