Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. bassettbrashandhide.com Last week, Mihingarangi Forbes made an extraordinary claim while interviewing David Seymour on Mata Reports, a taxpayer-funded current affairs programme which, she says, looks at events through an “indigenous lens”
The state of the nation is very fragile, as PM Luxon has rightly stated. Tough choices and tough love are what’s needed for a “fragile” New Zealand as it faces a “rough” economic forecast and massive infrastructure deficit, says Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. NZ Herald Let’s look at
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com In today’s State of the Nation speech Christopher Luxon talked repeatedly about getting young people off welfare. It seems that National has devised a traffic light system which will use increasing levels of sanctions – welfare deductions – when beneficiaries fail to meet their obligations. He uses the
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The NZDF lost in the Court of Appeal which upheld an earlier case declaring the vaccine mandates for the NZDF were illegal. I’ve lost count of how many times Ardern’s draconian mandates and lockdowns have been found illegal. But now: In a bombshell legal decision, the Court of
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Harry Palmer It intrigues me as to how many companies, corporations and public bodies like city councils the (Western) world over have been ‘turned’ in recent years to adopting modus operandi like ‘wokeism”, DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity), etc that are demonstrably counterproductive to their once-overriding raison d’être. And
Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.
