I remember a radio discussion a couple of weeks before the 2002 general election between the respective party Presidents – Mike Williams, and (You-Know-Who) for National. Williams delivered what probably turned out to be a king hit by lisping “National cannot win the election so supporting them is a
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.
Dear Editor Following on from Labour’s various promises about what they are going to do if re-elected – harbour tunnels and airport rail, family allowance increases and GST cuts, etc. etc. I have it on good authority that the other parties are gearing up to make their own announcements.
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In the unseemly debate on Wednesday night Chris Hipkins used a quote from NZ First candidate Rob Ballantyne out of context. It allowed Winston Peters to have a free hit and get free publicity across all the media at once, hijacking the news cycle brilliantly. New Zealand First leader Winston
J D Wealth Tax: A tax that should be paid, by anyone who has more money than I have. Capital Gains Tax: See above. Rich Prick: See above. Free Speech: Anything I say. Hate Speech: Anything you say that I don’t agree with. Racism: The idea that anyone should
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Mark Freeman An estimated 2,000 or more people took part in the Abandon Agenda 2030 protest march and rallies in Wellington on Thursday. The event was timed to coincide with the United Nations Association of New Zealand’s one-day conference Advancing Agenda 2030. However, in an overblown reaction
Thanks to a BFD Citizen Photo journalist we have these photos from yesterday’s Freedoms NZ protest. By 10.30, only about twenty people had gathered to protest, while about one hundred police, Maori wardens, and parliamentary security were present. They were largely dispersed around the fenced perimeter but were
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Maryanne Demasi Maryanne Demasi, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is an investigative medical reporter with a PhD in rheumatology, who writes for online media and top tiered medical journals. For over a decade, she produced TV documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and has worked as a speechwriter and political advisor
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
One of the themes of the novel 1984 that is often overlooked is that not only does the regime abolish a vast number of words, but what the implications are of doing so. When there are no words for overthrowing them, and a generation or two is kept deliberately ignorant,
New Zealand Doc Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand. newzealanddoc.substack.com I listen attentively when doctors and other health professionals who once
