Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Was last week’s major climate change announcement a case of vested interests getting their way? The sweet
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Warning Long read. A Plea for Sanity and for Action As for the tens of thousands of vaccine injuries, including serious and possibly permanent heart inflammation, reported in person to the Citizen’s Database, we’ll leave that for another day.
What is the main problem facing New Zealand today? It is the rather patronising attitudes of the suburban white upper-middle-class towards Maori, where Maori are not seen as ‘equals’ but as an unfortunate group who need to be helped by benevolent people who know what is best. All
I’m sure I’m not alone in watching the Australian elections. However, I’ve paid less attention to the boxing matches between ScoMo and Albo, instead, focussing on the minor parties that offered an alternative to the two big parties. There were two lessons that I think we can
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments Yesterday someone sent me a spoof of Dad’s Army with Jacinda holding a rifle and looking goofy,
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New Zealanders will be wondering why Nanaia Mahuta is still Foreign Affairs Minister – she is too busy trying to get Maori to take over New Zealand that she missed China taking over the Pacific. Winston Peters Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access
As Jacinda Ardern plays Harry Potter dress-ups and basks in the adulation of the five people who still watch Stephen Colbert, not all international commentary is the sort of uncritical adulation she’s become accustomed to buying. Even on American tv shows that people actually watch, like Tucker Carlson
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Warning Long read. 1394 words. Information Opinion But people die every day, don’t they? Indeed they do, on average around 84 daily in New Zealand, but skewed to winter. However, we experienced GPs with thousands of years of collective work
Information Opinion It has been interesting, though not surprising to hear the amount of blarney emanating from between Jacinda Ardern’s pearly whites in America. The Prime Minister of New Zealand constantly, at home and abroad, tries to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Her ministers
Information Opinion August 1973: Prime Minister Norman Kirk returned from a virtue-signalling overseas trip spent pontificating to everyone about how morally wicked they were compared to him by demanding a nuclear weapons ban (or some such twaddle). A few hours later he was interviewed by some press gallery hack
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Get ready for a big debate on how to improve democracy in New Zealand. On Tuesday, Justice Minister
The Government, or more precisely, two of its ministers, fought like hell to keep this letter secret. A letter thought to be so explosive it warranted dying in a ditch for three years to keep it secret. More than three years after Green MP Julie Anne Genter wrote a “secret
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's been given an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. She used her speech to rally against disinformation, and called on social media giants to limit its spread by 'recognising their power and to acting on it'. pic.twitter.com/4HBQeb2OWv — Jason Walls (@Jasonwalls92)
New Zealand First Media “Accusations of nepotism being levelled at a cabinet minister must be addressed,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “Questions have been raised about Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta having close family members appointed to influential and lucrative government contracts and advisory positions
