The ACT Party launched its election campaign in the weekend. Leader David Seymour stated that co-governance was dividing the country: He said Maori language had been “weaponised as a tool the minority forces on the majority in every forum, no matter how impractical, just to prove their political point”
Wellington mayor Tory Whanau claims she was “heckled and booed” by about 100 people at a residents’ association meeting to the point she said “f**k that was rough” on her way out. Classy. “They didn’t want to listen to me anymore because they didn’t like what I
While the proposition to replace road-signs as they fall into disrepair with flash new ones incorporating, indeed accentuating, the native-tongue equivalence of the English written words fomerly predominant on said signs has inspired considerable debate, and derision too, it’s important to relax and look on the bright
Nicholas Khoo Nicholas Khoo is an Associate Professor in the Politics Programme, School of Social Sciences, University of Otago in New Zealand. University of Otago Russia’s war with Ukraine is now at a critical turning point. The relentless missile and drone strikes on the capital Kyiv may look like
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Energy Minister Megan Woods recently announced their plans to provide significant financial support through the Government Investing in Decarbonising Industry Fund (GIDI). However, allocating funds to projects like replacing New Zealand Steel’s coal furnace with an electric arc furnace raises questions about the necessity
Mid-May, Nepalese Sherpas rescued a climber in distress from the “death zone” on Mount Everest. Gelje Sherpa was guiding a client when he spotted the frozen climber and persuaded his client to abort his trip in order to rescue the stricken man. Over a period of six hours, Gelje,
John Black stuffednz.co ‘It was the most traumatic experience of my life’ wheezed 78-year-old Ray Whithers. ‘I was just driving home from the R.S.A and following those new road signs…y’know the ones with the Maori on them…and I got lost. Before I
Timothy Welch Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning University of Auckland By withdrawing its support for the Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS) it helped introduce in the first place, the National Party has essentially only made a soft policy even softer. Lauded by many as progress towards increasing urban housing supply
Ananish Chaudhuri bassettbrashandhide.com Ananish Chaudhuri, PhD. is Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland. He is the author of a new book “Nudged into lockdown? Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19.” You can read more about Ananish Chaudhuri’s work here. Ashley Bloomfield was Knighted recently for
This article was written by the One New Zealand Foundation Inc. from documents held in the New Zealand, Australian and American Archives, the British Parliamentary Papers, and Official Information Act request from Crown Departments. (Copyright) 24/5/23. We have all forgotten what the agreement between the tangata Maori and
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
The media’s bullying of National (and Wayne Brown) is becoming a little predictable, like Stuff‘s Glenn McConnell or the Herald‘s Simon Wilson who use storytelling artistic licence to sell the government’s narrative and misrepresent National and the Mayor. The media’s current fixation is bilingual road
Family First familyfirst.org.nz At a time when most New Zealanders believe that the Ministry of Education and Minister Jan Tinetti should be focusing on concerns over educational standards and NCEA, the flow-on effects of the many COVID lockdowns and missed learning, finding and training teachers to deal
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Wayne Brown is doing what he was elected to do; slashing the profligate spending ways of Auckland Council and in the process he is annoying both the media and the liberal elites who seem to think you can go to heaven without dying. Wayne Brown is having none of it,
For all of the past, until quite recently, in fact, hunger and privation were the norm. Then, during the last hundred years we have seen a revolution in world agriculture that has dramatically reduced, and come close to eradicating world hunger for good. If you enjoyed this article please share
