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The Media Won’t Tell You This
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com What do Kiwi families think about children trying to change their sex, puberty blockers, and gender ideology in classrooms? A new nationwide poll tells us, but the media have ignored it. You’ll soon see why. TRANSCRIPT: We all know what the media think about helping
Ain’t That the Truth
Audrey Young provides a dose of reality for Winston Peters and NZ First in the wake of the strange poll from 1 News on Monday night. The broadcast showed Maiki Sherman wetting her knickers at the prospect of a left-leaning government, but the reality of the situation is that
BFD May 2024 Political Poll
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Heroes and Heroines Walk Among Us
Tani Newton Lest we forget. Every year, in April and again in November, and in the public places of every city and almost every town and locality, we are reminded to “remember them”. War is a terrible thing. To be attacked by a foreign aggressor is notoriously one of the
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View from Your Window
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Granting Legal ‘Personhood’ to Nature
Viktoria Kahui Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, University of Otago Biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing. One emerging concept focuses on giving legal rights to nature. Many Indigenous peoples have long emphasised the
Is the MSM Refusing to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?
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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Can You Smell That?
John Porter “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Originally a line spoken by Marcellus in Act I of Hamlet. It has now become an idiom used when something is not right, or seriously amiss, especially when leading to suspicion of motive. For example: “If the authorities knew about
What 60 Years of NZ Data Can Tell Us
Michael Ryan Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Waikato There is an ongoing global debate over whether the high inflation seen in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic can be lowered without a recession. New Zealand is not immune to this issue. Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr has said
