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Charles Chubb In light of this new National budget coming out, I want to address a few of the fallacies and inconsistencies I have seen in the media response over the week. First is the sudden interest in bringing us back to budget surplus. The question I heard was, how
Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. bassettbrashandhide.com The government is always going to win a showdown between order and anarchy. Not every government is lucky enough to be gifted a parliamentary opponent who effortlessly makes its leaders
Yesterday morning Andrea Vance said in The Post that politicians and government agencies (including Police) are tiptoeing around allegations of scandalous and illegal misuse of Stats NZ and Health NZ data at the Manurewa marae in the run-up to last year’s election. Brian Tamaki, not known for his
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The Budget is done and dusted and on the face of it, National successfully delivered on its election promise to provide tax relief to New Zealanders by lowering tax thresholds. The current tax thresholds were established in 2010 by John Key’s National Government. The
The Government has announced they are going to massively increase funding to fix potholes on state highways and local roads. It’s billions of dollars, just on potholes… yes billions… with a b. Transport Minister Simeon Brown is celebrating Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s confirmation of increased ring-fenced
Has Australia ever been saddled with a weaker, more useless PM than Anthony Albanese? Albo is an object lesson that, no matter how bad the incumbent is, there’s always somebody worse. Scott Morrison may have been wetter than a slug in a downpour, but it’s unlikely that he
John G. Malcolm John G. Malcolm is the vice president for the Institute for Constitutional Government and also directs Heritage’s Meese and Simon centers at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts when
You’d think they’d learn by now. When an “anti-racism” campaigner created a “Caucasians” t-shirt to protest the Washington Redskins name and logo, white folks bought them by the truckload. When the media splashed Donald Trump’s mugshot with glee, the Trump campaign made it into t-
We’ve all been there: you wake up with a lurgy and call in sick to work. But then you have to try and drag yourself off to the doctor’s for a medical certificate. Even assuming you can get in (good luck with that!), the last thing you want
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com Here’s the latest media release from Family First NZ… A new website WokeUp.nz has just been launched by Family First NZ. The website documents wokeness in New Zealand-based businesses so that Kiwi consumers can decide for themselves who to do business with and
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com Despite the intention of the new Government coalition to review the radical RSE programme in schools, both the Ministry of Education and InsideOut are going full steam ahead, promoting the guidelines, running courses with teachers, and basically ‘giving the bird’ to the new government and the
Tani Newton For every good thing, they say, the devil has a malicious counterfeit. That was what came to my mind when I heard of the Maori Party’s “Declaration of Independence” and their plans to establish a Maori Parliament. We should all know that New Zealand has a declaration
Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com Stats NZ has asked an independent external party to investigate allegations of misuse of census data collected for the 2023 Census. Last year Stats NZ
It’s a good question, what’s dodgier than a late night kebab? Right now in New Zealand politics the answer has to be the Maori Party, as revelations continue to pour forth over shenanigans in Tamaki Makaurau and the Manurewa Marae. Andrea Vance from The Post got the ball
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Senior Creative Strategist of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org The effort to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19 is more than four years in the making. And while shockingly little progress has been made, evidence
