My son has recently taken up a job in Paris. Before he went, I encouraged him to brush up on his school French, which he had studied for four years. He duly found an online course, worked on it for a while and started to feel a bit more confident
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com 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. Climate change represents a major
Andrea Vance, the former News of the World reporter, has written a book purported to be from the point of view of insiders in the National Party. The problem is that almost all of her claims are from anonymous cowards too gutless to own their spiteful and patently false recollections.
Alwyn Poole mthobson.school.nz If Phil Twyford, David Clark and Poto Williams had to resign for failures in Housing, Health and Policing then there are many more reasons for Chris Hipkins to hand in the Education portfolio. Clearly, the massive failure of the polytechnic centralisation is reason enough, based
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New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com A New Zealand government-approved media representative in this clip of a recent ministerial press conference likened face mask non-compliance with drink driving and suggested that we need to move towards “becoming a mask-wearing society”. NZ Minister for COVID-
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com After following ill-conceived interventions “to protect the health system”, it is not surprising that these very health systems are now in crisis. In New Zealand and across the globe unprecedented numbers of skilled health professionals have been mandated out of
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Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz Warning Satire BUT THEY SEEM SO HAPPY High profile married couple James Shaw and Marama Davidson have hit some turbulence in their marriage, with Shaw’s status as husband now in serious doubt. The power couple, who by all appearances seem to have a stable committed
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New Conservative New Conservative is pleased to announce our revised Covid-19 response policy. The policy is summed up in 12 words: “Respect freedom of choice, don’t discriminate, look after everybody, trust people.” The full policy reads: NEW CONSERVATIVE COVID-19 RESPONSE POLICY (July 2022) VALUES Respect Freedom of
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. James Shaw has lost his co-leadership position in the Green Party, and there’s a good chance he won’t be able to get
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion Stuff newspaper under its
The way our media gush about Jacinda Ardern and her Government you’d think we were doing astonishingly well in slaying the Covid dragon. Sadly, reality shows we are leading the world, just not in the way you think. New Zealand, often held up as the best example outside China
PM: “We have not said you must punish students if they do not use masks or anything of that nature” CG: “It does actually say…you would enforce it in the same way as sun hats, sunblock rules and uniform rules” PM: “But ultimately schools determine how they choose to
