oliviapierson.org Standing on the shoulders of Kiwi professionals, like Kirsten Murfitt and NZDSOS, who are working tirelessly to inform us of in-the-weeds detail of the potential future of NZ – even with a new centre-right government coalition – I’m publishing another of my humble submissions, this time
Bruce Logan Bruce Logan is a conservative Christian author, a retired teacher, a Francophile who has spent every northern summer in Provence since 2008 with his wife Mary, until Covid killed it all. He’s working on his third novel. bassettbrashandhide.com In spite of an inadequately educated media seduced
NZ media, still soldiering on as Labour’s propaganda machine, lived up to its name following Pene Henare’s unfortunate outburst at Waitangi: largely ignoring it. He said: When you take off your jacket, it’s to get ready for a fight. The bugle has sounded and we have heard
Brian Tamaki Maori are a powder keg ready to explode, and Willie Jackson & Labour, Te Pati Maori and the Kingitanga are holding the lit fuse ready to blow the place up. They are inciting the gangs, and young militant radical Maori to begin a Civil War in New Zealand.
Maori agitators only seem to come out to play when Labour isn’t in power. That should tell you something about their motives. We are yet again seeing the same old rhetoric at Waitangi: insults, disrespect and pathetic racism from Maori. They want us to respect te ao Maori (emphasis
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
JD With political commentators as diverse in their views as Chris Trotter and Matthew Hooton beginning to voice their concerns that something akin to civil war between Maori and non-Maori is imminent and that we do not have the resources, in the police or military, to deal with it,
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com Last Sunday, the Sunday Star-Times recalled on its front page the “fiery debate” triggered by my speech to the Orewa Rotary Club just 20 years earlier. Articles
Labour, along with their handmaidens in the complicit media, have launched a full-on attack against the Government over alleged conflicts of interest with ministers and the tobacco lobbyists. It’s been a rather forlorn attack, but along the way 1News has doxed the Prime Minister’s sister in law,
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The Ministry of Health has invited the views of New Zealanders on proposals to amend the World Health Organization (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHRs). Open until 18 February 2024, NZDSOS strongly encourage everyone to participate in the consultation process. We have
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week. peterallanwilliams.substack.com What sort of housing shortage and what sort of country are we looking towards if we marry up a couple
Personal responsibility: remember that quaint idea? It is positively Dickensian these days, when individual problems are made the responsibility of the country at large by way of various blunt instruments. The bottom line is that large numbers of our citizens accept no responsibility for their choices in their lives – it
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com There’s been a great deal of huffing and puffing over the last few weeks as the tribal elite responds to the threatened erosion of privileges. The Coalition Government’s commitment to equal rights will undermine their lucrative Treaty grievance industry and they are in
Benito Mussolini, a pivotal figure in 20th-century history, emerged from post-WWI Italy to become a polarising leader. Born in 1883, Mussolini initially embraced socialism before founding the Fascist movement in 1919. Exploiting social and economic upheaval, he seized power in 1922 and instituted authoritarian rule1… but how did
The government is proposing changes to fast-track resource consents in a new bill set to go before Parliament in early March. The minister charged with resource management reform, Chris Bishop, said high costs and long wait times were stifling economic growth. The current system was costing infrastructure projects around
