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 Recently we saw how the government’s proposed health structural reforms have little to do with improving health
I came back to Wellington last week, having been in the South Island for a while. In Westport life is mostly fairly normal: people wear masks in the supermarket, and they are required to wear them in restaurants (until seated and then, somehow, everyone forgets after that) but there are
Guy Hatchard PhD covidplanb.co.nz December 9 2021 Sometimes in life we find ourselves at a moral crossroads. On the path of our development as a nation that point has now arrived for New Zealand. No one should think that the failure of our governmental system, which has just
I was reading a post at David Farrar’s Kiwiblog that wondered how long the mandates he supported were going to last. It seems the penny has finally dropped for him that cheering on a totalitarian Government while they systematically dismantled our democracy and the freedoms that democracy was supposed
On the evening of day three of the new vaccine pass, we set out to host business clients at a local restaurant. Despite being double-jabbed for the purposes of travel and freedom (as we were promised) we were unable to dine there. Instead, we found ourselves on the outside
If you are like me you will be saving a small fortune now that business after business is discriminating against you. Every week the value of a brunch for two is no longer being spent in my favourite local cafes. Every month the value of our date night entrees, main
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Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
Mt Hobson Academy The last two years have been incredibly disruptive in both days in school and the quality of teaching and learning in New Zealand. Children/young people deserve high-quality academic options and we offer them. Over the last 19 years, children who have been through our Mt
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