Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz A parasitic blight on our democracy? Or a useful and necessary aid to our government departments? Those are two perspectives on the usefulness of the Wellington consultant class that contract to government agencies. The role of business management consultants took centre stage last week when National’
Jacinda Ardern’s catch cry and slogan during the Covid scare was “kindness”. Of course, she was everything but kind when she divided us into a ‘Them’ and ‘Us’ society. We were divided into those who took a particular medicine and those who didn’t. We were divided into those
What a coincidence that just as the new ‘Pakeha bad Maori good’ compulsory NZ History curriculum is being launched a Karen like Laura Quin raises her anti-historical accuracy head. She has complained about information maps on board the Interislander Ferry being racist and ” yuk.” Cannibalism is yuk but it
Helen Houghton New Conservative co-leader New Conservative is halfway to seats in Parliament and will continue to rise in the polls over the coming months. The possibility of a smaller party entering Parliament is not only highly likely come election day but will be a reality due to the
I have been told by a health professional to forget about what happened in NZ regarding Covid-19, as it’s not good for my health, raising issues and continuing to be concerned. More about my thoughts and response later. We all know that fear was used to control the
I describe the advent of MMP as the brown breading of politics. No one really likes brown bread (with the sole exception of Vogel’s). What I am talking about is what MMP has created in politics: a kind of tasteless, supposedly good-for-us style of politics that gravitates
Aisling Gallagher Senior Lecturer in Social Geography Massey University Some eight months out from this year’s election, the National Party has launched a new tax rebate policy to help reduce childcare costs. At the same time, Australia and Canada are abandoning their own rebate policies for failing to really
Laughable and ridiculous, but powerfully backed, the assault on all things conservative continues with new demonisations and ridiculous vignettes drawing associations between nut-cases and the right almost weekly it seems. The full-on free publicity for anti-right conspiracy theorists saw red-radio and Dom-Pravda this week endorsing
In 2020, the Ministry of Health (MoH) asked the the University of Auckland’s Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC) to subcontract the Covid-19 education of both healthcare workers and thousands of untrained vaccinators. This was required to roll out the mass vaccination campaign across New Zealand. One of the concerning
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The departure of World Socialist Youth leader Jacinda Ardern as PM might be thought to have re-oriented the New Zealand Labour Government to a less radical position. Certainly, Matthew Hooton argues in today’s Australian, new PM Chris Hipkins’ first moves have “quickly abandoned Ardern’s most unpopular left-
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. Changing the electoral act to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote is the policy of both the Labour and Green parties. They could follow the normal procedure for changes to electoral rights, with a referendum followed
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Thomas Sowell, the renowned American author, economist, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, could have been describing New Zealand when he wrote, “Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination”. While
Thursday saw the Taxpayers Union/Curia poll deliver average results for the National Party and dreadful results for Christopher Luxon. Now the Roy Morgan Poll is out and it echoes the Curia Poll. Both show a static position for National and Labour regaining the lead. Today’s Roy Morgan New
The public of New Zealand has a right to know about this radical Maori social engineering. We all need to be reminded of the Maori groups that have listed hundreds of privately owned sites across New Zealand that they believe they have claim to. Properties, land holdings and even farms
