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When I was at university, we often had political candidates come for debates. It was during these debates that students would heckle the candidates they didn’t like, especially when there was a talking point they disagreed with. The rowdiest were when representatives of different youth wings debated each other.
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Mark Hubbard Information Opinion I ran my own blog, Life Behind the Iron Drape, until 2015 when I stopped as I was merely repeating myself. So while still up, that blog is little read, and there is something I want to say. Sean Plunket’s The Platform is not the
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Lobbyists are currently facing increased scrutiny, especially in terms of their propensity to shift back and forwards through Parliament’s “revolving door” – most starkly illustrated by former Cabinet Minister Kris Faafoi setting up a lobbying company only months after
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Remember when Jacinda Ardern said that “We will continue to be your single source of truth” about the Covid pandemic? Lest you be in any doubt, anything other than official government pronouncements were dangerous misinformation. Ardern was absolutely unambiguous: “Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.
Yesterday on the AM show Ryan Bridge interviewed a couple of people lamenting the bizarre decision by Creative NZ to stop funding Shakespeare due to colonialism or some such nonsense. Presumably, everyone finds this a little odd and it’s made international news, making New Zealand a laughing stock (hint:
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If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Chris Trotter God Save the… King? Elizabeth II, of happy memory, has departed the political stage she graced for
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