Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com I find many protest actions ridiculous and counter-productive. Throwing white paint over rainbow crossings is just another
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Stuff had an article yesterday asking how much fat can be trimmed off public sector jobs. I would suggest that the answer is plenty, plus some more. Stuff, however, thinks such thoughts are too simplistic. It is too simplistic to assume that recent large increases in public sector staff numbers
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Rt Hon Winston Peters Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced $6 million in humanitarian assistance to those affected by conflict in Gaza and Sudan during his ongoing visit to Egypt. “There are huge and urgent humanitarian needs in both Gaza and Sudan, and it is important
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Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.substack.com Former National Government Finance Minister Steven Joyce is being paid $4000 a day to chair the new Government’s “expert advisory panel” on infrastructure. That’s over twice what
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Family First Over Easter weekend, the state broadcaster 1News did a 2-part series on calls to expand the criteria for our recent euthanasia laws. While allowing for contrary views in the reports, the general messaging was not about possible abuse of the law, concerns about coercion, depression affecting the decisions
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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It’s amazing what miracles can be achieved by the New Zealand public service when the occasion calls. Non-urgent referrals for mental health assessments in New Zealand were waiting an average of 26 days just for their first face-to-face appointment (which is not an actual assessment: as one psychologist put
