Nicole McKee ACT justice spokesperson Being nice to gangs because they’re victims of colonisation hasn’t worked – Labour’s real-world experiment has proved that. The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor’s report on gangs blames colonisation, crime against gang members and the idea that society has rejected
Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com It’s hard to suppress my feeling that Green Party MPs inhabit another planet. Their policy announcement at
Phil Green With all the turmoil occurring in France presently, where youths are pillaging shops and burning cars and buildings, we in New Zealand watching the nightly news can breathe serenely and think: ‘That’ll never happen here.’ For a start, we don’t have poverty, a disaffected youth or
Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole f ounded 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.
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The Government and Grant Robertson would have you believe that everything is going swimmingly in the economy. This is despite them tipping us into recession, borrowing and spending like a drunken sailor, with poorly targeted government spending, like the multi-billion dollar Covid fund, all fuelling rampant inflation. Everything is
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Fresh from the news that Labour wasted $531 million on expiring Rapid Antigen Tests, the interim financial statements for May show a Government in serious fiscal trouble. Previously damning forecasts can’t keep up with Grant Robertson’s fiscal incompetence. Looking at today’s interim
Christopher Luxon National Party Leader The health sector is going through a workforce crisis. That means more sick and injured Kiwis are waiting too long for the treatment they desperately need, whether it’s in the ED, to see their GP, or on a growing wait list for necessary surgery.
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The dumbing down of education continues unabated. Secondary Chemistry Educators New Zealand co-chairperson Murray Thompson was so shocked after he read the draft school science curriculum that he was left asking where the science was. Science teachers are shocked that an advance version of the draft school science curriculum
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**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? Yesterday’s photo was of Loch Linnhe taken from the window of an Airbnb on the main street in Fort William, Lochaber,
