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Te Pati Maori had a little tantrum, hurled insults at the King, swore an oath to a half-wrecked document that the Crown was a party to, and then eventually caved and swore a proper oath. What does it all mean? Te Pati Maori ran its own swearing in ceremony in
Dear Editor The hostility of the NZ Mainstream Media to the new coalition Government was totally expected. They did not disappoint. Especially as they knew that the taxpayer-funded life-support was going to be stopped. Has a cessation date been made known? What of the so-called civil service? Government departments have
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Can we stop even pretending that the mainstream media are anything but deranged cheerleaders for the worst people on the planet? That much is clear from the Australian journalists’ union’s open letter calling to reject “bothsidesism” on Gaza. Meaning, in other words, that journalists only regard one side of
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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
Alex Hickey whakatakitimes.nz STRINGING THEM ALONG Winston Peters has revealed he’s applying lessons learnt as a teenage lothario in his latest dealings with the media. New Zealand’s new Deputy Prime Minister has wasted no time in taking aim at the media just days into the job, accusing
**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? This photo is after they built it back better. An appropriate placing of a Green Party billboard outside an abandoned house on
Ananish Chaudhuri Ananish Chaudhuri, PhD. Professor of Experimental Economics | University of Auckland ananishchaudhuri.com bassettbrashandhide.com Winston Peters has suggested that mainstream media were “bribed” by the previous Labour government. Members of the media are outraged. Peters, true to form, is being provocative. I don’t think Peters’ strident tone
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Go back a century and visualise a nation. Until 1890 (at the earliest) the nation was seen as quite backward; little more than a pioneering frontier backwater, well behind the times compared with much of the rest of the world but things changed rather rapidly and it quickly became very
