Bryce Edwards I am a 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. democracyproject.substack.com In recent decades the New Zealand Parliament has become more representative of some of the historically
I came to New Zealand in the 1980s, and it was a very decent place to live back then. At a time when Britain was starting to deal with race riots due to immigration, New Zealand was a broad contrast. The people were great, the culture was familiar and, above
Karl du Fresne Karl du Fresne, journalist and former Dominion editor blogs here bassettbrashandhide.com I sometimes wonder whether political reporters ever pause to think how precious and entitled their behaviour looks to outsiders. I doubt it. They are too self-absorbed. Right now, members of the parliamentary press gallery
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We are seeing a sea change in our democracy, and it is being done right before our very noses, with nary a peep from a complicit media. That sea change is the wholesale abandonment, by Maori, of democracy in favour of threats, bullying, intimidation and outright brown-mail if they
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Well, not in those exact words. What he did say in the headline to his opinion piece in the Weekend Herald was “Full credit to the Labour team – they deserve it”. A more appropriate headline might have been ‘No credit to the Labour team – they didn’t deserve it’. They
Over 250 people gathered in Wellington Civic Square in support of 230 people kidnapped by Hamas in Israel on October 7th Yesterday afternoon over 250 people gathered at a peaceful rally in the Civic Square in Wellington to call for the immediate and unconditional release of 230 hostages taken by
voicesforfreedom.co.nz Last weekend, many watched a video from NZ go viral globally. The video contains several claims regarding the mRNA injectable and clustered, time-related deaths of New Zealanders. VFF has raised concerns about the safety and efficacy of this product since it began testing in 2020. There
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