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Perry Trotter IINZ Politicking is well underway in NZ and, just as we did prior to the last election, IINZ has created a voter’s guide. It is pleasing to see two of the minor parties holding a strong pro-Israel stance. In contrast, the present Labour government’s track
One half of my family originates from the Mediterranean island state of Malta. Strategically located between Africa and Southern Europe, Malta is an island that has, like its last colonial ruler, Britain, been invaded and colonised many times in its history. That history of colonisation – from the Phoenicians and Romans
BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that features political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the New Conservative Party: Please send us links to any speeches,
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I’ve previously examined the curious phenomenon of the Woke Corporation. How is it, I wondered, that the Marxists and the Globalists have so gotten in each others’ beds. I pointed to Communications (a discipline almost completely dominated by Marxist academics) graduates infiltrating PR departments, as well as left-educated
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Golriz Ghahraman has attempted to smooth the path of her pet political activist and trouble maker into permanent NZ residency. Apologies in advance if her lecture on kindness makes you throw up your mouth a little. “Today we celebrate New Zealand as a place where fairness and compassion prevails”, Green
Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State
Last week in Parliament both Judith Collins and Gerry Brownlee called on the Government to release their list of the 800 projects they say are “shovel ready”. As I pointed out in my previous article, petty squabbling in the Cabinet Room, otherwise known as the Coalition Childcare Centre, plus red
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Nathan Smith nzinitiative.org.nz The white doors opened gently and in strode the great Irish statesman Edmund Burke. He was five minutes late for the interview, but given that he’d just been reincarnated, I let him off. We shook hands and made small talk about the “crazy” New
It gives me no joy, really, to say “I told you so”, but…well, I told you so. Eight months after arriving in New Zealand, acclaimed author Behrouz Boochani has been granted refugee status. As I said at the time, Behrouz Boochani has been a festering parasite greedily sucking the
This government is not comfortable with a trade-off between COVID-19 and the economy or the environment and the economy. It’s either one extreme or the other with no meeting in the middle. One whiff of community spread and we will be sent back to lockdown, region by
