I watched a video of a Kiwi based in America, Trevor Loudon, who is with Epoch TV. Trevor did a sixteen-minute piece entitled “The Real Jacinda Ardern”. In this he highlighted the many former communist, now so-called socialist, friends Ardern has cultivated over the years. He backed up
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. He has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker. Nanaia Mahuta’s comments on China in a Guardian interview last week brought
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In our previous article, we evaluated the first module of Unteach Racism, finding it to be worthy of an F- grade. Today we are moving on to module 2 entitled “Low Self Belief”. We come to this second module with lower expectations, given the pure
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The proposed History curriculum is so bad that it is hard to know where to start. Indeed, in the limited time I have to write a submission, I
I’ve always thought road maggots were selfish and inconsiderate users of roads they don’t pay for. Yesterday in Auckland they proved that categorically by illegally riding on State Highway 1 over Auckland Harbour Bridge. All egged on by a former Associate Transport Minister who once promoted the Vision
Hobson’s Pledge Trust We agree that the draft history curriculum divides history into villains and victims, contains significant gaps, and pushes a narrow set of highly political stories from our past, as a new petition on the ACT Party’s website states. The draft curriculum’s “three big ideas”
Hobson’s Pledge Trust Despite denials from our Prime Minister, there is no sign of any retreat from in-class race-shaming rituals intended to eliminate racism, but which end up making some children feel guilty about their skin colour. On Monday, ACT Party leader David Seymour called a Ministry
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New Zealand Greens’ list MP Golriz Ghahraman sure does like to talk up the evils of slavery and colonialism. She wants statues of New Zealand’s “colonial past” removed. She also makes a big noise about supporting the “Black Lives Matter” movement, whose central platform is “reparations” for slavery. But
We want the vaccine rollout to go faster because vaccinated people will help achieve herd immunity, keep our borders open, make disastrous lockdowns a thing of the past, and allow us to dust off our passports and travel again. Sounds simple and achievable, doesn’t it? “While Australia has rolled
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 While Grant Robertson was announcing increased benefits and higher spending on social services I couldn’t help thinking
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Maori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer wrote a rip-snorter for the Herald on Wednesday. She neatly explained how she divides New Zealanders into three groups: (1)
Information Satire We are such lucky, lucky people privy to the imminent unveiling of an official new language to replace the cumbersome bunch of three languages that few will master and even fewer understand. Streamlining three sub-standard languages into one easily understood language makes perfect sense, and of course
I’ve avoided hot topics recently, being preoccupied with other matters, but I shall wade into the fray on this. I try to avoid public criticism of those “on the right”, but things have gotten so bad that it’s important for someone to speak up. I’ve heard Lee
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson and former teacher The Government’s New Zealand history curriculum threatens to indoctrinate students in left-wing ideas and requires a radical rewrite. ACT has today released its submission on the draft New Zealand history curriculum and set up a petition calling for a complete
