I ask any person who really cares about our future and blindly believes that replacing Labour with National will be the panacea to change the current racist, co-governance course we are currently on to think and look again. George Orwell said, “We have now sunk to a depth of
Robert G. Patman University of Otago Strategy, as the great military thinker Carl von Clausewitz once observed, is the process of effectively applying means to achieve clearly defined ends. But good strategy in global politics has proved easier said than done. The post-Cold War era is replete with examples
Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits
Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. nzcpr.com After winning all seven Maori
Rosemary Abbott whakatakitimes.nz EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS TVNZ have promised to double-check their news sources the next time they get it into their heads that a leader of a New Zealand political party has made an actual threat of violence. This assurance comes hot on the heels of a bizarre
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray was arguably the most popular poem of the 18th century. An elegy is a burial hymn and such a one might be suitable for Labour on October 14. In fact, there are a couple of verses from the poem that might
Principal X November 15th, 2021 marked a day of profound heartbreak for me, a day I will never forget. On this day, a profound shift occurred; a juncture where former allies in leadership transformed into arbiters of my exile, classifying me as a ‘safety risk’. Just one week prior to
There is a reason why the Opposition in politics is called the Opposition. The clue is in the name, but it is a clue that seems to have escaped the notice of Christopher Luxon, the man who currently leads the National Party. It seems that on almost every key policy
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Being useless obviously, never factored into his thinking? Being male has cost him and many other National MPs a high slot on their party list, outgoing Dunedin list MP Michael Woodhouse believes. On his first interview since quitting his party’s list, National’s Dunedin candidate said he feared that
Rosemary Abbott whakatakitimes.nz ALWAYS BE PREPARED In a remarkable show of forward-thinking, the higher-ups at Newstalk ZB are reportedly bracing themselves for a dangerously hungover Mike Hosking. The popular radio host, renowned for his opinions and undying love for the National Party, has likely started on a
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Dominic O’Sullivan Charles Sturt University theconversation.com Big policy ideas usually don’t come up in parliamentary valedictory speeches – they’re for saying goodbye and thank you. So departing Labour MP Jamie Strange was the exception last week when he made a case for New Zealand and Australia to
