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 John Black. Time to Be the National Party One of a few treasured photographs from my undistinguished university career
**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s view was of the Countdown car park Kelvin Grove Palmerston North. Clearly, a biohazard that everyone needs to be fearful of. Please put
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Warning Long read. 1630 words. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been perceived as “softening her line on wealth taxes” – and therefore being open to
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Capitalist Information Opinion In the heyday of the New York Cosa Nostra (or “Mafia”), which began around 1931 and lasted for 30 years or so, a very odd situation sprang up. [What is known as] the Gambino crime family had as its head a man called Vincent Mangano. From what
Matt King I was on the radio Tuesday morning and anyone who thinks Trevor Mallard and this Government have acted fairly and done everything consistently when he ordered the trespass order against me (more than two months later, and when I never did anything wrong), has forgotten what true democracy
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Capitalist Information Opinion Like many folks, I have been following the news reports surrounding the gerrymander proposal for local body elections in Rotorua which even the Attorney General cannot pretend is justified. One presumes the intention is for a socialist local body power grab in perpetuity? Perhaps they think that
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002 and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Warning Long read. 1539 words. Many people seem to think that New Zealand doesn’t have a constitution. And certainly, we are one of a very small number
Can you imagine a New Zealand in which independent media is gone and all that remains is a small group of large media organisations muzzled by funding from the government? It’s not some faraway dystopia. It is already happening. With the rapid corporate consolidation of traditional news outlets and
Faced with a judicial review of his decision to trespass Winston Peters, it seems that Trevor Mallard, who has an ignominious record before the courts anyway, has bottled his decision and rescinded the trespass orders. Speaker Trevor Mallard has withdrawn five trespass notices issued after the Parliament occupation following push-
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Is Parliament just the fiefdom of Trevor Mallard and his colleagues? That’s the impression the public might take from yesterday’s news that the
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