JM White Information Opinion Say what you like about Winston Peters. I remember listening to Parliament on the radio in the 1980s when he took on the Fay Richwhite Cook Islands fraud. Corruption had seeped sewer-like throughout the highest institutions in this land. But surely you know the whole
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Warning Long Read. 2105 words.
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Earlier I wrote about the corrosive nature of social media against democracy and trust. Today I want to explore the poison dart guns of social media and how they are instrumental in the poisoning and polarisation of society. Social media gives the ‘weak’ a powerful poison dart with which they
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Capitalist There is a marvellous song called “Overkill” by Men At Work, an Australian band from the 1980s. Unless I am very much mistaken, the first verse – “I can’t get to sleep/I think about the implications of diving in too deep/and possibly the complications” – seems to sum
Cantabrian Stephanie Rumble (49) says she has caught Covid-19 twice – the second round only four weeks after the first – despite being fully vaccinated and boosted. Others also believe they have caught the virus a second time. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to
Things are not looking good for the Ardern government. Not only is it sliding drastically in the polls, but its $55 million legacy media slush fund can clearly only buy so much loyalty. Especially when New Zealand’s economic situation is deteriorating to the point that even the bought-and-
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