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Tani Newton As I said last time, the statistics tell us much, but also little. They tell us that the Western world is in population decline and extinguishing itself. Some would say that immigration is temporarily propping up the population, but it would be more realistic to say that immigration
Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published at The Platform. bassettbrashandhide.com Twenty years on, judges are quietly awarding coastal rights to iwi. Early this month, an hour-long documentary was released by TVNZ
Hon Chris Bishop Minister of Housing The Government has announced a series of immediate actions in response to the independent review of Kainga Ora – Homes and Communities, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “Kainga Ora is a large and important Crown entity, with assets of $45 billion and over $2.5
Rodney Hide Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 bassettbrashandhide.com It’s been a while since I have written. I have tried. But I have not had anything useful to say. My concern has always been public policy.
The review of Kainga Ora has been released and it shows without a shadow of doubt that Labour and anyone from Labour, couldn’t run a bath or anything else for that matter. The report is damning and finds that the social housing system is not socially or financially sustainable.
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the editor at large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In August 1920 in Munich, a young Adolf Hitler delivered one of his first public speeches before a crowd of some 2,000 people. During his speech, which lasted nearly
Thi Thuy Van Dinh Dr Thi Thuy Van Dinh (LLM, PhD) worked on international law in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Subsequently, she managed multilateral organization partnerships for Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund and led environmental health
Jeffrey Lord newsbusters.org The inevitable quadrennial debate announcement has been made. There will be two presidential debates, and Donald Trump let Joe Biden set the rules. This time around CNN will host the first, and ABC the second. And the CNN selection – with the announcement of moderators as CNN’
Susan Crabtree Susan Crabtree is RealClearPolitics’ national political correspondent. realclearwire.com Billionaires Funding Protests Donate Millions to House Dems By Susan Crabtree May 17, 2024 For President Biden and congressional Democrats, the fierce party division over the campus protests and the war in Gaza is full of warning signs during
dailytelegraph.co.nz ANOTHER SO-CALLED COVID CONSPIRACY THEORY HAS COME TRUE, AFTER YEARS OF DENIALS FROM GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR ‘EXPERTS’. In a major development, Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), acknowledged to Congress on Thursday that US taxpayers had funded gain-of-function
Rex Ahdar The Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, likes to trace his political lineage back to the pioneers of parliamentary Maoridom. I will refer to these as the ‘big four’ or better still, the Four Knights. Just as boxing had its celebrated ‘Four
Dave Patterson libertynation.com There has been a growing tension between the United Arab Emiratis (UAE) and the US during the Biden administration. Recently, the UAE leadership seems to be more afraid of Iran and the terrorist state’s proxies than it is secure in the knowledge the US would
Two articles in the Weekend Herald highlighted the stark difference between the left and the right when it comes to looking at tax. One article was written by Thomas Coughlan and the other by Steven Joyce. One talked about introducing a new tax; the other concerned cutting the existing ones.
dailytelegraph.co.nz AUTHORITIES HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE URGENT OVERHAUL OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM, AIMED AT ENHANCING THE DETECTION AND CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IS BEHIND SCHEDULE. The improved surveillance system, initially set to be in place by next month, now awaits a final independent report due in September, according
Chloe Swarbrick went on Jack Tame’s show on Sunday as the Greens seek to influence, by their handmaidens in the media, the outcome of the looming Privileges Committee hearing into Julie Anne Genter’s misbehaviour both inside and outside the House. The matter of privilege arose when she crossed
