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Tani Newton How long will it be before rainbow pedestrian crossings are left alone? Will this all blow over, and will we go back to our humdrum lives? Or will pedestrian crossings become the new battleground of the culture war? There are many sides to the culture war; many battles
Mark Blackham and Emily Mingins Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Although there are now more farmers than teachers in the in the 54th Parliament, office work, politics and humanities education are the dominant backgrounds of MPs. Research released today by Blackland, a PR consultancy, finds that the six most
JM White Those who were our ‘leaders’ in the time of Covid, who forced many elderly rest home residents to die frightened and alone during the years from 2020 to 2023 and called it ‘kindness’ and ‘protection’, who locked adults and children in their homes, who made everyone, even toddlers,
bobmccoskrie.com There have been four recent acts of public vandalism. Only one is being treated as a ‘hate’ crime, and one was even celebrated! If you want to know which ones are crimes, you’ll need to ask Greens co-leader Chloe Swarbrick. And that’s the problem. VANDALISM IS
The latest Roy Morgan poll is out and, despite the relentless negative pressure from the media and the failed opposition, public sentiment toward the Government is increasing in positivity. Labour is sinking into oblivion, while the coalition continues to soar. Roy Morgan’s New Zealand Poll for March 2024 shows
Brian Tamaki “Now that we have your attention with the rainbow crossing sagas, I want to highlight the cultural and moral takeover going on in New Zealand right now. We’ve struck a raw nerve in Kiwis. Kiwis have had enough of the rainbow- washing going on. It’s gone
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator mercatornet.com In the United States, Australia, and Europe there can be no cause more idealistic, more popular, and more progressive than the abolition of female genital mutilation (FGM). Many countries have banned it; NGOs educate people about it. The United Nations
The shameless grifters of the Climate Cult have more front than Myers. Not content with sucking billions yearly from the taxpayer, to subsidise their panels, turbines, and electric cars, now they’re coming, cap in hand, demanding the taxpayer pay their workers’ wages. We’re constantly huckstered that “green jobs”
Rule of Thumb: if Helen Clark is for it, it’s probably a really, really bad idea. Especially if it’s yet another UN boondoggle. Especially when it’s a UN boondoggle overseen by an agency even more thoroughly discredited than usual. After all, let’s not forget that a
Gerardine Hoogland Gerardine is a Roman historian, with specific interest in Rome’s foundation up to the end of the Republic. She advocates that history gifts us with wisdom for the mind and nourishment for the soul, and keenly defends the ancients’ legacy of civic society, law, and government. libertyitch.
The vote may have been done and dusted before anyone’s dinner had cooled on election night, but the fallout from Australians’ emphatic rejection of the “Indigenous Voice” referendum continues. Not just the temper-tantrums and name-calling from the sore-loser left. We’re finally seeing, for one, just how much of
If the Albanese government was a car, you’d write it off to the scrapheap, instead of pushing it from one disaster to the next. Well, Albo is running a car, of sorts: a clown car. Only when it breaks down, it tends to spew out foreign-born rapists, murderers, and
Martien Lubberink Associate Professor of Economics Victoria University of Wellington The New Zealand Commerce Commission recently released a draft report on the state of personal banking services in New Zealand. Unsurprisingly, the market study found a marked lack of competition among the largest financial institutions in New Zealand. But will
JM White Before 1985 we had a bi-cultural population which was heavily intermarried and we were well on the way to a unique way of life; so much so that in 1975 the United Nations sent an emissary to find out what we were doing that worked so well. There
2017-2023 Do Not Rest in Peace I can’t help but think as I see the terrifying images of the MV Dali, the container ship taking out the Key Bridge in Baltimore, that it can be seen as an analogy for the Labour Government and its destruction of this country.
