As I predicted the other day, Christopher Luxon and the National Party are being squeezed hard on treaty issues. David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill is increasingly popular, and the polls show it. But Luxon is extremely squishy on this and wetter than an otter’s pocket. Sooner rather than
Dear Editor, The claim that Maori did not cede sovereignty to the Crown by the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and therefore compensation is due because the colonists subsequently stole the land, is no more plausible than a claim that the Anglo-Saxons never ceded sovereignty to the Norman invaders
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Matevz (Matt) Raskovic Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy Auckland University of Technology In 2010, then US secretary of state Hillary Clinton famously described New Zealand as a country that “punches way above its weight”. She was referring to our role in international relations, global security and natural disaster
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Vinuli Withanarachchie, PhD candidate, College of Health Massey University Bridget Dicker, Associate Professor of Paramedicine Sarah Maessen, Research Associate Auckland University of Technology As of January this year, New Zealand became just the second country (after Canada) to adopt a groundbreaking new procedure for patients experiencing cardiac arrest. Known as
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New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Vivek Jain was a young dentist who died at age 37, in the week following his 2nd jab. He was found dead at home when he failed to turn up at his dental practice in Matakana, on the 23rd of June
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The Curia Poll released last week was very revealing in terms of what its content told us about where the country is headed. National went up 2.6 points to 39.6% while ACT doubled that increase going up 5.6 points to 13.7%. The interesting point to note
Richard Treadgold Founder Free New Zealand One thousand, four hundred and sixty-six kilometres from the warm and turbulent North Cape to the cold and turbulent Stewart Island mark the length of our glorious land – the world’s third-oldest continuous democracy and the most remote. Driving reveals agreeable bays
“I lift my gun, I let the shots do the talking” Peeni Henare, New Zealand Labour Party Once again our so-called national day was hijacked. We were treated to aggression and fighting words and violence. Threats of guns and cannons. A malevolent, three-headed taniwha. Lions. Spiders. Peeni Henare
