Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com Analysis: The Human Rights Commission, known for its frequent commentary on racist remarks and divisive statements by public figures, has remained conspicuously silent regarding Kiri
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Republican congressman, physician and veteran Dr Rich McCormick recently reminded Anthony Fauci he treated Covid patients during the pandemic: Fauci didn’t. Yet, McCormick said, “Despite my education and my training and my experience, my opinions were relegated to conspiracy and misinformation by so-called healthcare experts who had never treated
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Re yesterday’s Blog and my return from abroad to find a pile of computer-generated letters from the ASB re a deceased person’s account, closed 6 years back, another one arrived in today’s mail. All this remember over 80 cents, the Bank must
Dr Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.substack.com Investigations and public scrutiny of Te Pati Maori and John Tamihere’s various electoral campaigns and state contracts are finally starting to happen. Inquiries at varying levels now
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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 the view from the Nightcaps Hotel, Southland. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera or
Richard Prebble The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. bassettbrashandhide.com A “pakeha budget” would
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Charles Chubb In light of this new National budget coming out, I want to address a few of the fallacies and inconsistencies I have seen in the media response over the week. First is the sudden interest in bringing us back to budget surplus. The question I heard was, how
Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. bassettbrashandhide.com The government is always going to win a showdown between order and anarchy. Not every government is lucky enough to be gifted a parliamentary opponent who effortlessly makes its leaders
Yesterday morning Andrea Vance said in The Post that politicians and government agencies (including Police) are tiptoeing around allegations of scandalous and illegal misuse of Stats NZ and Health NZ data at the Manurewa marae in the run-up to last year’s election. Brian Tamaki, not known for his tiptoeing
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The Budget is done and dusted and on the face of it, National successfully delivered on its election promise to provide tax relief to New Zealanders by lowering tax thresholds. The current tax thresholds were established in 2010 by John Key’s National Government. The
The Government has announced they are going to massively increase funding to fix potholes on state highways and local roads. It’s billions of dollars, just on potholes… yes billions… with a b. Transport Minister Simeon Brown is celebrating Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s confirmation of increased ring-fenced funding
