Rt Hon Winston Peters Public Meeting Sunday 30th July Semenoff Stadium Whangarei Good afternoon and thank you for being here in such numbers. It’s great to announce the candidacy of Gavin Benney, an experienced city councillor and with many years of experience as a local police officer, with an
Almost 30,000 personnel from New Zealand, Australia, the United States and ten other countries have been taking part in war games in Queensland as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre – though they have been paused due to an Australian military helicopter crash. The Green Party’s defence spokesperson Golriz Ghahraman
Compared to earlier generations, there has been a noticeable uptake of people in recent years identifying as indigenous, both here in Aotearoa New Zealand and in other countries around the world. While this has been something to celebrate, in some indigenous communities, it’s been cause for concern. According to
John O’Connell CEO of Life Education Trust NZ commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room Should our young people be a pawn in the government’s goal to deliver Smokefree 2025? While we’ve been busy eradicating tobacco, a vaping epidemic has been curling its
hobsonspledge.nz With all that has happened this week, and with the focus on the election, I am asking you to take a moment to speak up for equal speech rights. The Department of Internal Affairs released a proposal for a new way to regulate social media and traditional media
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura As they say, a week is a long time in politics, and it has been for the Labour government. While I take no pleasure from the troubles of others, in these challenging times we must have our government focused on the things that really matter.
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 “The bedrock of any successful
Harry Palmer I was born in 1944 in Manchester, UK, four years before the introduction of the National Health Service. At the age of two or three, I entered into a relationship with the medical profession when I was taken to a doctor’s surgery by my mother. Though no
Police have finally provided some statistics to Stuff after earlier refusing an OIA submitted in January 2022. A more than 900 per cent spike in police call-outs to just five Rotorua emergency housing motels can finally be revealed after the Ombudsman ruled data requested by Stuff a year-and-
El Gato Malo brownstone.org el gato malo is a pseudonym for an account that has been posting on pandemic policies from the outset. AKA a notorious internet feline with strong views on data and liberty. I am an environmentalist. I value clean air, clean water, forests, rivers, lakes, jungles,
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Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com “The bedrock of any successful democracy is that it delivers government of the people, by the people, for the people. In the case of our current government, and too many other western democracies, this once abiding principle has been subverted. We now have government of
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How’s this for cultural appropriation by one of the first colonisers: Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi says there is still a place for the Waitangi Tribunal despite calls from New Zealand First to disband the nearly 50-year-old tribunal. The Winston Peters-led party voted in favour
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The closeness of the Australia-New Zealand relationship is a long-standing fact of both nations’ history, going back to Cook’s first voyage in 1768-71. The two nations went to world war together as the ANZACs. But, under its Labour government especially, the reliability of New Zealand as
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com I love the United States. I travelled across the US by car when I was a 19-year-old, and lived in Washington, DC, for five years. On returning to New Zealand, I was the chief executive of an investment bank, partly owned by Wells Fargo
