Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. New Zealand is currently facing a housing crisis and what underpins it is a severe shortage of homes accompanied by house price inflation. The combination of these two factors has driven inequality up and frankly locked too many hardworking
Capitalist Just when I thought the embarrassing amateurishness from the ACT Party couldn’t get any worse, David Seymour managed to find a way. He has challenged Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson to a debate on co-governance. Oh boy. That sort of thing – debating – was always the trap American
Gary Moller garymoller.com Gary is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance rather than just treating the symptoms. Information Opinion Warning Long read. 2064 words. As I write, the rescue helicopter flies past our home yet again on its
JM White Information Opinion Say what you like about Winston Peters. I remember listening to Parliament on the radio in the 1980s when he took on the Fay Richwhite Cook Islands fraud. Corruption had seeped sewer-like throughout the highest institutions in this land. But surely you know the whole
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. Warning Long Read. 2105 words.
Earlier I wrote about the corrosive nature of social media against democracy and trust. Today I want to explore the poison dart guns of social media and how they are instrumental in the poisoning and polarisation of society. Social media gives the ‘weak’ a powerful poison dart with which they
Capitalist There is a marvellous song called “Overkill” by Men At Work, an Australian band from the 1980s. Unless I am very much mistaken, the first verse – “I can’t get to sleep/I think about the implications of diving in too deep/and possibly the complications” – seems to sum
Things are not looking good for the Ardern government. Not only is it sliding drastically in the polls, but its $55 million legacy media slush fund can clearly only buy so much loyalty. Especially when New Zealand’s economic situation is deteriorating to the point that even the bought-and-
JM White On this day we remember those men who died young and now lie in another land And those who returned when this country had not yet been sold by the hidden hand And men who in '51 found they must fight once again for their share of
Tarquinius Anzac Day is a time to reflect and remember. Although sometimes referred to as a time to celebrate, there should be no celebration of war, not even for the victors. Many a valiant word has been said to boost morale and spur men into action. “The object of war
A few weeks I ago I wrote an article for The BFD titled “What Co-Governance Really Means”. As part of the article I wrote the following: If you accept the interpretation [that the Treaty of Waitangi is an unequal partnership] to be the correct one then giving a Maori
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Chris Trotter. The Facts Don’t Matter Explaining the loss of public trust and confidence in the mainstream news
A few weeks ago I wrote The Best of a Bad Bunch and the overripe banana pic is still relevant when talking about Christopher Luxon. He was very green when he became National Party leader, but I think he is ripening nicely. I am aware that not everyone shares this
