Harry Hunt If you’re like the rest of us, you are sick and tired of reading the same load of self-congratulatory drivel every day that you open social media. If you are a professionally-minded writer this could be your opportunity to get your voice heard. With audience
Tom O’Connor MNZM, JP. SEPARATISM This is the first of a series of articles on inter-ethnic relationships in New Zealand in the early 21st century and the development of an informal duality of citizenship, the acceptance of that duality by community leaders and the long-term potential for
Left: The BFD. Photoshopped image credit Boondecker Right: Cruella. Cartoon credit geodon. The BFD. Cruella De Vil appears in Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel “101 Dalmatians”. The name was actually a pun on the words Cruel and Devil. If the name fits wear it. The book was made into a
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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David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister should reactivate the forgotten ‘roadmap’ and move Auckland to Step 3 of Alert Level 3. As of last Tuesday, Auckland as a city was at 90 per cent single and 77 per cent fully vaccinated. If it makes sense to move to the
I wrote a previous article about turning the tide of voting support among long-term, committed Labour voters. The following letter has been reprinted with the author’s permission. This man is a dear friend. Over many years, we have exchanged good-natured rivalry about our different political standpoints. He
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Ananish Chaudhuri Professor of Behavioural and Experimental Economics University of Auckland ananishchaudhuri.com Author of: Nudge into lockdown? Behavioural Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19 It took the government 18 months to figure out that “elimination” was misguided. We were one of the few remaining holdouts on elimination; so much so
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The Government’s water reforms appear to be fatally flawed before legislation is even introduced to Parliament. The fact that the Minister of Local Government
Barbara McKenzie Wellington SNA Committee You mortgage yourself to the hilt for your dream home – the large section, the mix of garden, lawns and native bush. You delay putting in a drive because you like the feeling of being in the woods. You mull over how to eventually develop the
Jhan a-Maki Here is a photo that shows the very entrance to Muriwai Beach, one of the jewels of the Auckland province. Well over a million visitors a year walk past this point. The rusted and broken wire fence typifies the council’s attitude – cheap and nasty, ill-considered,
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