Owen Jennings One of the memories seared into my mind is of sitting in a mud-walled, mud floored, poorly thatched hut, choking on smoke from the small open fire in the centre of the room, eating sadza or maize porridge. Sadza is on the menu tonight too. It is
Jim Cable Dear Peter Goodfellow I write to you as a longstanding National member who is now completely unhappy with both the state of, and lack of direction of, the Party and its organisation. I’ve been seriously involved with National since Roy Maclennan’s campaign for Nelson in 1969
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It is wonderful to watch the mighty fall… not that either Joe Biden or Jacinda Ardern can be in any way classed as ‘mighty’, but until very recently both were the darlings of the world media. It breaks my heart to see how journalists in the US and elsewhere are
Do you trust The Spinoff and their polling company Stickybeak? Already we know that The Spinoff has received money from the government by way of subscriptions, NZ on Air and Creative NZ. Almost 2 and a half MILLION dollars from NZ on Air alone. In the last week, The Spinoff
If it were anyone else repeatedly breaking lockdown rules, they’d be charged with breaches but because it is the Labour Party, all we hear is that the Prime Minister is “disappointed”. Labour Party advertising delivered in breach of lockdown restrictions has appeared in the Prime Minister’s own Auckland
Free Press ACT Party The nationwide lockdown has revealed a lot, mainly about the Government’s complacency before it happened. It has also shown how obsessed this Government and much of New Zealand society is with identity politics. Free Press traversed this ground in its review of Cynical Theories several
The epidemic response committee set up during lockdown last year and chaired by National’s (then) leader Simon Bridges had much more power than Parliament’s Q & A led by Speaker Trevor Mallard, and ministers and public servants were petrified of having to front. The reason being they actually
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party yesterday welcomed news that the Government is now wastewater testing in 95 locations, up from 26 at the start of the outbreak. It has softened on saliva testing, and even said it was open to home test kits, a technology it has so
GROUNDSWELL NZ In the lead up to November’s nationwide protest, a number of campaign actions will be undertaken. The second event is on today Friday 27th August 2021 under the banner of “CAN YOU HEAR US”. At 12:30 pm all around New Zealand, Groundswell NZ are calling for
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On Friday the residents started transforming face cloths into bunnies. By Tuesday they hadn’t lost any of their enthusiasm and were turning hand towels into teddy bears. NZ Herald Read the article in full here. Comment on it on The BFD.
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Claire Breen University of Waikato Dr Claire Breen holds a BCL from the National University of Ireland (University College Cork). She also holds an LLM (International Law) and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on international human rights law with a specific interest in children’s
