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Dear Editor New Zealand already has Co-Governance. When Kiwis go to the polls on election day, they as individuals elect a Government. That is Co-Governance. The Treaty gave Maori Chieftainship over their own private land. It also gave them the right to sell their private land, which they
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Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura We live in interesting times. Last week Winston Peters put out a press release stating that Refining New Zealand (RNZ) were filling the pipes at their Marsden Point refinery with concrete, and this understandably generated a lot of concern. It was however fake news, and
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. The events of the past two years have been a wake-up call to those of us who naïvely believed our liberties were more or less secure under
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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Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Vaccine mandates will eventually end, but will the divisions in society created by Covid restrictions be as easily overcome? What steps do you think we need to take as a society to heal? Stuff ** The below article is Stuart Smith’s response to the above
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Maori tribes scrapping over ownership of the foreshore is not what William Hobson, James Freeman and James Busby envisaged when they thrashed out the Treaty of Waitangi entitling Maori to the privileges of British citizenship and protection from death, slavery and cannibalism by warring tribes. And yet here we are
In a rare partial victory for free speech and reasoned discourse, two New Zealand doctors have won their appeals against the Medical Council. Their “crime”? Daring to contradict the Podium of Truth. Two doctors who were suspended by the Medical Council over spreading Covid-19 misinformation have won their appeals
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When the tyrant Jacinda Ardern talked about removing the vaccine mandates from next week, she also talked about keeping masking mandates in place. Apparently it is ‘too soon’ to remove them. What remains in use at this level, is of course masks. I know they are new for us, and
