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Simon O’Connor onpointnz.substack.com Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. Some may find it extraordinary to think that New Zealand’s largest trading partner thought it
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.substack.com I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government Former Finance Minister Grant Robertson and former Prime Minister Chris Hipkins have been conveying how unhappy they
There are some folk who haven’t realised that Kiwis rejected racism, separatism, and segregation at the last election. The parties which promoted those policies, Labour, Green and Maori, got bundled out of office. Now a storm has erupted over a sign at Auckland University. Act got into the debate,
Despite Anthony Albanese’s unconvincing pledge not to allow anti-Semitism to “find so much as a foothold” in Australia, it’s horrifyingly obvious that it has not just a foothold, but a stranglehold. Jewish households and businesses are fleeing certain Melbourne suburbs. Mobs chant anti-Semitic, genocidal slogans, with
Robert M. Dover Professor of Intelligence and National Security, University of Hull The attack on the Crocus City concert hall in the Moscow suburbs, which left 137 people dead, has again raised questions about the effectiveness of intelligence in identifying and preventing massive acts of terrorism. Intelligence about such events
bobmccoskrie.com Last Thursday was World Down Syndrome Day – and as part of the celebration they encouraged a #LotsOfSocks day. Did your workplace have a #LotsofSocks day? Probably not. It was about celebrating ‘diversity’. Woke media, companies and schools love diversity. Just not this diversity as much as the letters
Dear Editor, “If you repeat a lie often enough people will come to believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself” is something Joseph Goebbels apparently never said, but that axiom has certainly been a propaganda staple since, dare I even mention it, the Nazi regime of
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com The other day, my grown son visited
Bryce Edwards I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government democracyproject.substack.com When she was campaigning to be Minister of Finance last year, Nicola Willis pledged that she would
Yesterday the SFO lost their appeal in the Court of Appeal in the long-running NZ First donations case. This is the third case the SFO has lost and it is not surprising as they tried to shoehorn Electoral Act offences into criminal charges. The Court of Appeal was having
CJ Hopkins Playwright, novelist, political satirist cjhopkins.substack.com One of the first things totalitarians do when they set about transforming a democratic society into whatever type of strictly-regulated, utterly soul-deadening totalitarian dystopia they are trying to transform it into is radically overhaul and remake its culture. You
Tasmania’s election is done, if not yet dusted, and the result is a warning shot for both major parties at the federal level. Of course, Tasmania’s hare-brained Hare-Clark election system, which makes MMP look almost rigorous, doesn’t help. This is a system which actually punishes
The Albanese government is in grave political danger — and seems as blithely unaware of it as they were of the groundswell of opposition to the Voice referendum. For all his chutzpah, Anthony Albanese seems too often to forget that his government was elected with the second-lowest Labor vote in
Greg Barton Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation; Scholar -In-Residence Asia Society Australia, Deakin University It appears almost certain the brutal assault on a Russian crowd settling down to watch a rock concert in Moscow on Friday night was an Islamist terrorist attack.
Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an
