Let Us Bring on the Debate
Free speech begins at home. It begins with countless individuals making countless individual choices to speak their minds and allow others to speak theirs – even, if necessary, to defend to the death their right to do it.
NZ Politics
The MSM Think We’re Stupid
The projected cost blowout of $775m to $3.2b for two interisland ferries.
NZ Politics Daily: 27 August 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ENERGY Emma Ricketts (RNZ): Gas not the way out of an energy crisis, expert warns Brent Edwards (NBR): Govt considered being a more active owner of Air NZ, gentailers (paywalled) No Right Turn: Not a solution Luke Malpass (Post): Coalition shows it is taking
Sit Down, Shut Up, Do What You’re Told
Teachers have failed kids, especially in mathematics. Now they are moaning because the government has stepped in to tell them to teach kids properly. They need to sit down, shut up, and do what they’re told.
The Crime of Caring for Humanity
So complete has been the betrayal of our citizenry, now by successive governments, as to invoke the notion of treason.
The ANZ Bank Is NZ’s Own Colonial East India Company
Indistinguishable from the government and shipping the gold bounty away to the motherland.
Hey, Leave Our Kids Alone
The UN duplicitiously ties the sexualisation and queering of children to their Sustainability Development Goals which New Zealand signed up to in 2015 as Agenda 2030.
Worlds Apart? - Part One
Events across the UK, and also more locally, highlight how fundamental rights are being consistently challenged. This is Part One of a two-part Substack looking at the concerning dynamics in play.
The Rednecks’ Revenge
What if, sick of being talked down to from above, ordinary New Zealanders decided the time was right to push back a little harder from below?
How Would New Zealanders Vote?
The populist or anti-Establishment mood that has created electoral earthquakes elsewhere around the world doesn’t appear to have had an impact here, yet this survey might suggest that such latent sentiments might still be growing.
Luxon Gave Councils a Well Deserved Kicking
Christopher Luxon has been hitting them out of the park in the past week. Can he keep up the momentum? He will if he doesn’t get squeamish or squirrelly.
All the Power, None of the Responsibility
If the central government is the funding backstop, then we can never have proper control and responsibility.
Replay Radio – The Crunch
Cam speaks with guests Casey Costello and Eric Crampton about tobacco control policy.
Alarming Decline in Children’s Language Skills
The pandemic has severely affected social communication skills, with nearly two-thirds of teachers reporting setbacks in children’s language development.