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Viv Forbes BScApp, FAusImm, FSIA. Viv Forbes is the Executive Director of the Saltbush Club and Founder of the Carbon Sense Coalition. He has no investments in or contracts with coal or cement companies. But he is a geologist and has studied the rocks of the Bowen Basin and parts
The gulf between the government and the opposition is becoming wider by the day. The combined mental capacity of the three parties in this government far exceeds that of the three parties on the opposition benches. The left themselves are making it more obvious by both their actions and their
Although not a great fan of popular music and culture, I do occasionally respect certain talented people: Mott the Hoople (of course), Paul French (history’s most underrated songwriter) and Don Walker (the brains behind the Australian band Cold Chisel) immediately spring to mind. Walker once wrote a song “Telephone
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com A lack of perspective can make something quite large or important seem small or irrelevant. Against a backdrop of high-profile, negative statistics it is easy to overlook the positive. For instance, the fact that 64 per cent of Maori are employed is rarely reported. For
The latest Taxpayers’ Union/Curia poll is out and it seems that the Green’s sanctimonious balloon has been popped. It seems that voters will forgive benefit fraud, shoplifting, bullying each other, migrant labour exploitation and a myriad of other issues, but they really don’t like mouthy seppos getting
A $70,000 app to help Hamilton City Council staff with te reo has one councillor calling for closer scrutiny of “pet projects” as ratepayers face an unprecedented rates rise. He Pou Koorero – an app “designed to help people on their te reo journey” – will be launched this month and
Bert Olivier Bert Olivier works at the Department of Philosophy, University of the Free State. Bert does research in psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, ecological philosophy and the philosophy of technology, literature, cinema, architecture and aesthetics. His current project is ‘Understanding the subject in relation to the hegemony of neoliberalism.’ brownstone.org It
Paul Mueller Paul Mueller is a senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University. Previously, Dr Mueller taught at The King’s College in New York City. His academic work has appeared in many journals including The Adam
Kevin Schmidt realclearwire.com Nearly two years after Nina Jankowicz briefly led the Disinformation Governance Board at the Department of Homeland Security, she’s launched an organization demanding transparency and the public release of documents about the public debate on disinformation. An interesting move, likely without true transparency in mind.
C J Hopkins consentfactory.org Nobody expects The Anti-Zionist Inquisition! Like their befuddled medieval Catholic progenitors in the classic Monty Python skit, they descend upon you without warning! Amongst their diverse weaponry are surprise, and fear, and ruthless efficiency, and fanatical devotion to the Church of Anti-Zionism! Blasphemers, heretics, and
Robert G Patman Professor of International Relations, University of Otago New Zealand governments have been actively exploring the option of joining pillar two of AUKUS for over a year now. But according to foreign minister Winston Peters, the government is “a long way from this point of being able to
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com I’m not sure that it’s much comfort to anyone to know that the post-Covid surge in violent crimes, gang activity, ram raids, random shootings, thuggery and stabbings is occurring in other countries as well as New Zealand. These days, wagging school, out-of-control welfare and
Since the turn of this century, the fabric of Western society appears to have become almost transparently thin and holes are evident. I put it down to Tony Blair, who became the Prime Minister of Britain in 1997 and subsequently cooked up a story with President George W Bush that
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Former US President Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” The fight for
Brian Tamaki Trans activists want you to believe it should be ‘Happy Birthing Parent’ or ‘Family Day’ this Sunday, not ‘Happy Mother’s Day’. We will not allow trans rights to push aside women’s rights or mothers’ rights. Trans activists are doing everything possible to erase women, including from
