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The Battle for NZ’s Farming Heartland
Hugh Campbell University of Otago theconversation.com Andrew Hoggard’s resignation in May as president of Federated Farmers, followed swiftly by his appearance high on the ACT Party’s candidate list, might have seemed like just another of the election’s minor subplots. But this abrupt change of political hats
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
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Nostalgic for a Joyous Left
Chris Trotter Chris Trotter is New Zealand’s leading leftwing political commentator, with 30 years of experience writing professionally about New Zealand politics. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz I WAS A CAPTAIN COOK MAN, Grant Robertson was a Robbie Burns man. If you know anything about the great student
Is the MSM Refusing to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?
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
Tell Me This Isn’t a Government Operation
“Tell me this isn’t a government operation.” My favourite line from Apollo 13, when Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) learns that the vital carbon scrubbers on the Lunar Module are round, while the ones they need to replace on the Command Module are square. I’m not certain whether Kranz
Let’s Look at Some Independent Scientific Research
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Professor Denis Rancourt is a physicist and interdisciplinary scientist who ran a large laboratory at Canada’s University of Ottawa. His research has involved developing techniques using physics and mathematics methods to analyse a range of natural science problems. This included
View from Your Window
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What Chris Said in the 2nd Debate
bobmccoskrie.com Last week was the 2nd Leader’s Debate between Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and the person who wants to be the next Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. There were some interesting questions on abortion, gender ideology & policies in schools, and decriminalising cannabis. We check their responses. TRANSCRIPT: Last
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It’s Time to Rejoin the Real World
This election is very much shaping up to be a vote to rejoin the real world. It’s very much a return to political normality. Many of us have woken up to the con job we enabled the Queen of Lies to execute at the last election and the farmers
A Threat to Free Speech
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com If we get it wrong, the TPA’
Should We Ignore Promises Made by Politicians?
David Seymour is currently on the radio telling listeners to ignore promises made by politicians. This is a strange thing for a politician to say, particularly as ACT has a considerable manifesto containing a large number of policies it will be hoping to get past National – and possibly New Zealand
Farmers – Don’t Read the Herald
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com This post comes from the other side of the world, the country which – as a hotel receptionist reminded us a