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No News for Boomers
JD As a Boomer I have been conditioned, throughout my life, to watch the six o’clock news, which usually meant the TV1 bulletin. Then, about eighteen months ago, growing tired of the increasingly pro-Labour, leftist tenor of their reporting, I switched to TV3. Imagine my disappointment when I found,
Many MPs Are Landlords and the State Pays Their Rent
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.substack.com I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government When the First Labour Government came into office in 1935, the new Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage was
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Schooled by the Silver Fox
Chris Hipkins got schooled during Question Time by Winston Peters. It was an object lesson which showed Chris Hipkins that no matter how smart he thinks he is, no matter how often he asks stupid questions, and no matter how often he inanely bobs his head with a silly grin,
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MSM Say the Quiet Bit Out Loud
bobmccoskrie.com In quite an incredible admission, the previous head of TV3 news Mark Jennings confessed that senior journalists around the country discussed the possibility of the media not reporting Winston Peters if and when he spoke about the Labour government’s $55m public interest journalism fund. But it’s
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A Response to Bryce Edwards’ Opinion Piece
J. Andrews A response to Bryce Edwards’ opinion piece Good afternoon Bryce, With regards to your recent OpEd thebfd.co.nz/2024/03/03/trust-needs-to-be-rebuilt Yes, indeed trust needs to be rebuilt. I found the 14+ comments on your article more interesting than what you wrote in the sense that
View from Your Window
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The Power the Treaty Gives Maori
Dominic O’Sullivan Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University This week parliament acted urgently to disestablish the Maori Health Authority. The hurry was to circumvent an urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing on whether the proposal breached te
Is the MSM Refusing to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?
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
Winston Peters Accepts NZDSOS’s COVID Letter
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com In what to many seemed like a deja vu moment, an event to remember the second anniversary of Camp Freedom was held in front of the Parliament building on Thursday, 29 Feb, and marked a significant moment for us here at
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