Trevor Tucker brownstone.org Trevor Tucker teaches Communications in Canada Nudge: “to prod, touch, or coax gently.” Having accumulated a couple of speeding tickets, you get a notice from the Ministry of Transportation, which begins: “You may believe that you are a safe driver most of the time; however, your
Erin McEwan PhD candidate in Geological Sciences University of Canterbury New Zealand’s 2016 Kaikoura earthquake stopped the Waiau Toa – also known as the Clarence River – in its course. Within hours, the river flooded outside its channel and changed course. In the seven years since the magnitude 7.8 earthquake,
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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
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“Dog whistlers” is the latest insult to be lobbed at any who dares question the government. We have anti-vaxxers, far-right supremacists, racists, and conspiracy theorists. Now dog whistlers. Debate on any topic is dismissed by this abysmal Labour Government: we are not to question, but simply to obey.
I read, courtesy of Stuff, an article referring to a recruitment drive by the Department of Corrections. They were advertising on the back of buses in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty. The advertisement featured a smiling young Maori lady in a prison officer uniform. The ad asks candidates to
Christopher Luxon is ditching some of his ties with Labour. Woop! Woop! National’s polling jumped up three points. Last week, after 2½ years, Luxon said, “We got it wrong.” Allowing three houses up to three storeys high on most suburban sites had been acceptable. Building them close to the
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Every so often a once-in-a-lifetime issue comes along, an issue you can hang your hat on and grab a chunk of votes. National’s Christopher Luxon just passed up on one that was a sitter and went all woke and womble-like. It’s like he is
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