Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Warning Long read. 1530 words. The current cost of living crisis in the New Zealand economy could yet have severe political consequences. Warning signs could be seen in Monday’s French presidential election result – in which the nationalist-populist
The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’
People were celebrating the government caving in over the Rotorua Maori-mander where non-Maori would have had just 39% of the voting power of Maori. They were calling it co-governance but it was anything but. It turns out they were celebrating prematurely While Jacinda Ardern has been flouncing
Information Opinion Really? How convenient. Ashley Bloomfield and his despicable bunch of experts have it seems, convinced our medical practitioners to use an already existing Long Covid illness to adopt as their cover-up for the symptoms of having a dangerous vaccine. If you enjoyed this article please share it
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I’ve written many times about what I call the “Moloch Option”: the policies pursued, most notably by the Ardern government, in a vain effort to “stamp out Covid”. As early as May 2020, I wrote that what “save lives” really meant was “sacrifice the young to save the very,
The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. The acquisition of Twitter by the world’s wealthiest individual, Elon Musk, will almost certainly have far-reaching consequences for the way the global public sphere functions, since
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New Zealand First Media “Labour’s Three Waters announcement today is nothing but a ‘faux backdown’ which has only occurred due to massive public backlash and the calculated loss of political capital they would endure,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “It is not a coincidence
