Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. ‘There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.’ Nelson Mandela Masking children is not indicated and is a huge threat to child well-being while masking
John Maunder The extract below on “Climate Refugees” is from pages 293-298 of my book. The idea for the book came about when I was visiting my family in Adelaide in January 2020 during a heatwave. One day when the forecast was for 45°C my daughter Denise suggested
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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
The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’
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“Every time a business closes, that’s lost wealth, health, relationships and sometimes lives as well.” – Geoff Neal, NZ Business Consultant. How much more pressure can businesses in New Zealand take? Many have had their profit margins slashed. Customer and staff levels were reduced as Ardern’s vaccine mandates came
Donald Digby Having been an ex-pat for close to 15 years now it was wonderful to finally make it back home to New Zealand for a long-overdue Christmas and New Year. This was the longest I had ever been away from home and as much as I was
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Let us not pretend that Charlotte Bellis is not totally responsible for the promised opening up of the borders that had been slammed shut indefinitely in December. For reasons I have constantly failed to understand, our ‘open and transparent government’ has ridden roughshod over New Zealand’s citizens for the
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 John Black. Time to Be the National Party One of a few treasured photographs from my undistinguished university career
Hot on the heels of proposing new taxes, the tyrant‘s regime is now talking about rent controls to help people struggling with the cost of accommodation. They’ve proven that they have no real solutions for housing after abandoning their flagship Kiwibuild policy as an ignominious failure. So rent
Labour’s housing policies have failed and Kiwis are paying the price with soaring housing costs and a new threat of retrograde price controls, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. In an increasingly desperate game of policy whack-a-mole, Associate Housing Minister Poto Williams yesterday said rent controls
