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Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Over the last year or so, I’ve read a lot of books (or more accurately, listened to a lot of books on Audible) on the US political
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Family First An in-depth analysis of the media coverage of the ‘conversion therapy’ bill which was passed in Parliament in February has found that support for the law received a heavily biased share of the media coverage during the campaign period. The analysis looked at 126 New Zealand-based
If anyone ever believed universities are institutions where academics can speak their minds freely and openly, the stoush sparked by the letter that seven University of Auckland professors sent to the Listener last July should have thoroughly disabused them of that notion. What should have been an uncontroversial statement – that
Dear Editor There is a concerted drive underway to discredit all except the MSM. TV One is running a series warning about ‘fake news’ news, with the standard ‘Guilt by Association’ process of describing a clearly deluded view (‘Green Lizards from the Planet Zog taking over the world’ type of
Jacinda Ardern is in deep political doo-doo. Her poll numbers are tanking. She’s still got a good 18 months before another election, of course — but then, so did Kevin Rudd. Ardern must surely be turning in circles right now, trying to spot where the knife will come from.
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 Stephen Berry Freedom Fighters Dehumanised by Hateful Government Smears “Rivers of Filth.” When Covid 19 first arrived on New
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Information Opinion The announcement from the government that employers do not have to rehire unvaccinated workers came as a shock. Employers should tread very carefully in this area, as it appears, to me at least, to fly in the face of employment law as it is applied today. The new
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to
