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. In a week when Russia
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What do the Wars on Drugs, Climate Change, and Covid all have in common? Answer: they can all be expressed as follows: We must do X in order to prevent Y where Y is a threat of biblical proportions and X is taking extreme action to prevent the threat, most
Brighid In October 1915 the NZ Parliament passed the Discharged Soldier Settlement Act which gave returned servicemen the opportunity to own some land and apply for cheap finance so they could develop it into productive farms. The government emphasised that success in the Soldier-Settlement scheme would ultimately depend on
Colin Ford In Other News Following on the heels of Friday’s landmark High Court decision which overturned the government’s illegal Covid-19 vaccine mandates for both the police and armed forces, thousands of New Zealanders marched over Auckland Harbour Bridge on Saturday, demanding that the government end all
Colin Parkinson This nation has been basically torn apart by the current government and the opposition parties have done little to stop it. Think back to 2019. Now imagine how you would react if someone told you the following would happen in New Zealand over the next few years: * People
Martin Harris Mr Luxon, I’ve watched your speech “Leader’s Address – COVID and Divided Society” and read the text several times. I was left cold by the actual live-streamed speech and the manner in which it was delivered and quite honestly felt alienated by it. I felt like
Information Opinion This article is about totalitarian creep used as an adjective. Undoubtedly Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little are the latest in a long line of totalitarian creeps but as they are both proper nouns (or perhaps improper nouns) they will not be specifically dealt with here. A disclaimer regarding
Jacinda Ardern’s solution to conflict could not be clearer: she refuses to engage with protesters to resolve the domestic conflict of her own making but suggests talking will take the heat out of the the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Dialogue either works as a strategy to resolve differences, or it
In a previous article, I discussed the shifting political divide away from the left-right divide towards a divide between the ordinary people and the political class. In this article I wish to further explore this new paradigm by looking into how this will shift the political landscape. In the
For some time now I have followed with great interest David Farrar’s ‘Kiwiblog’. I have found his posts to be both entertaining and providing a unique perspective about New Zealand politics. Mr Farrar is indeed an intelligent pundit with remarkable wit. That is why it pains me to disagree
The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Today, The Freedoms & Rights Coalition and our united freedom family declare MANDATES GONE BY 1ST MARCH. New Zealand has long suffered under the tyranny of this government. This government have inflicted a raft of mandates upon this country. We say NO MORE! Our politicians
David Seymour ACT Party Leader As New Zealanders continue to be squeezed from every direction, Jacinda has this morning shown she has no plan to ease the pressure they face. On Newshub Nation this morning the Prime Minister blamed global factors for the highest inflation we’ve seen in three
David Seymour ACT Party Leader With 12,000 cases in the community and just 19 at the border ACT has all the rapid advice the Prime Minister needs about isolation and MIQ. Jacinda told Newshub Nation this morning that “We’ve actually asked our team of advisers we’re using,
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 A few days ago
It’s a moot point that anyone actually pays attention to Jacinda Ardern these days given her propensity for lying. Remember “There will be no forced vaccinations and those who choose to opt-out won’t face any penalties at all”? No media are reckless enough to ask for an
