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
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Priya Kurian University of Waikato theconversation.com The Green Party has run a strong campaign. With a 14.2% share in the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll, up by 1.9 percentage points since the previous poll, that is more than half the Labour Party’s 26.5%. The gain
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Allow me to preface this contribution with the following statement: If I were asked to express a preference between a National/ACT coalition or a National/ACT/NZF coalition then it would be the former. This week Luxon declared his position, which was if Winston is needed he will pick
The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Today marks the conference of the UNA-NZ, hosted by Sir Ashley Bloomfield, where they will tackle how to Advance Agenda 2030. Originally planned as an in-person event in the Parliament Banquet Hall, it’s now moved online to avoid ‘disruption’ caused by our
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Landlords have been scapegoated and blamed by Labour for the housing crisis when the real cause is a lack of housing supply. ACT will end Labour’s war on landlords, including by immediately reinstating mortgage interest deductibility from April 2024. We will also protect the
The Climate Cult has New Zealand’s political class almost completely in its grip. You can vote for any colour, so long as it’s green. The spectrum of party policies ranges from wishy-washy mint to poisonous emerald. The sad truth is that the entire political class is so
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz As the National Party gets closer to government, lobbyists and business interests will be lining up for influence and to
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1News has released the latest 1News/Verian Poll and it confirms the Newshub poll. The trend is the most important thing and the trend says National and Labour are slipping away, Act has stalled, and Winston Peters is on a surge, gaining 1 per cent a week. New Zealand First
