David Farrar Media Commentator, Pollster and Blogger, Curia Market Research commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room I want to talk about media bias in New Zealand. Now by media bias, I don’t mean that there is a cabal of journalists deliberately being biased, as
We are very pleased to announce a new service exclusively for our members. The BFD in partnership with GCo Fuels has created a discounted fuel option. With the government removing the 25c per litre fuel subsidy , and the resulting significant increase in fuel prices from 1 July 2023, we encourage
We used to get outraged as a nation when our politicians took diabolical liberties with the public purse. There were Tuku’s undies, Shane Jones’s porn movies and Clayton Cosgrove’s amazing ‘bad luck’ with luggage that saw him getting five new suits on the taxpayer. Then there are
Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First Labour have made it clear that the law-and-order strategy they are committing to is the same strategy they have had over the past few years that has created our country’s current state of lawlessness – empty the prisons, put offenders first,
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Angela Brazier, the new CEO of the Firearms Safety Authority, has a background in Human Resources. Quite how she managed to rise to the top of a Firearms Authority is beyond my or indeed anyone else’s comprehension. Perhaps she was just a diversity hire. At the new gun registry
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The election looms and the polls seem to suggest that Labour and its groupie parties will be able to do the impossible in the face of the indefensible and somehow ride to glory on the coat-tails of the idiocy, dishonesty, lies, ignorance and incompetence of its ministers. Is there
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Dr Elena Bishop, MD trained in both the Soviet Union and the USA before starting her first job as a pathologist in New Zealand years ago. Having experienced the turmoil in Russia in the ’90s while a medical student, she was
Archaeological evidence suggests that tobacco was discovered in the Americas and was being cultivated and used by the indigenous culture as early as 5000 BC. It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century and became popular as smoking was often associated with a certain level of status or sophistication.
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We are very pleased to announce a new service exclusively for our members. The BFD in partnership with GCo Fuels has created a discounted fuel option. With the government removing the 25c per litre fuel subsidy , and the resulting significant increase in fuel prices from 1 July 2023, we encourage
In the past week I have discussed how many small parties appear to offer little other than the very addictive but ultimately futile “hopium”. Hopium is that “metaphorical substance that causes people to believe in a false hope”. It is often paired with copium. As opposed to copium, which represents
