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According to Herald Media Insider, Shayne Currie, a number of well-known TVNZ faces, including Miriama Kamo, Jack Tame, Indira Stewart and Anna Burns-Francis feature in an E tu union publicity campaign – all lending support to the importance of news and current affairs. This, to my mind, is a pretty pointless
Mr Peters used hyperbole: the N-word. He plays the media using rhetoric exactly as someone teases a kitten with a laser. My, oh my. They are so stupid. The kitten loses interest after five minutes, and the NZ press still can’t get a grip on themselves forty-eight hours later:
Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.substack.com NOTE: Since this column was first published, Simon Bridges has clarified that he resigned immediately from the National Road Carriers and the Northern Infrastructure Forum when he was appointed
The legacy media, echoing the false attack against Donald Trump with their “bloodbath” lies have done exactly the same thing to Winston Peters with their false and deceptive reporting of his State of the Union speech. Every single legacy media outlet ran deceptive headlines claiming that Winston Peters compared co-governance
The left media have attention spans which make goldfish seem like wellsprings of ancient wisdom. Unless it happened on their TikTok feed in the last hour, it’s as remote on their consciousness as the Sack of Nineveh. For instance, when the Morrison government was dumped, the MSM were cock-a-whoop
You’ve got to hand it to the Albanese government: they’re on the ball. It’s been nearly six months since the High Court’s “NZYQ” ruling, and Labor’s panicked rush to set loose hundreds of violent, depraved foreign-born criminals. Labor are still dithering about what to do.
Jeffrey Lord Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House and aide to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania he went on to work for the Pennsylvania State Senate Majority Leader, then going on to serve on
Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD at the University
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. When it comes to free speech in New Zealand, the hypocrisy (or at best, inconsistency) of many
Tani Newton Two very simple questions: 1. Looking back – what would you like the Inquiry to know about your experiences of the pandemic? 2. Moving forward – what lessons should we learn from your experiences so we can be as prepared as possible for a future pandemic? There’s a limit
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. Dear Winston As we now all know, China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, is visiting New Zealand
In my previous piece regarding the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) I outlined how the cultural changes overtaking the RBNZ were also overtaking its primary mission and probably did not, ironically, reflect a good return on investment (ROI). The recent release of commemorative coins by the RBNZ, coupled with a consumer complaint,
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The declining fortunes of the mainstream media has been dominating the news over recent weeks. The industry is waning, and the weaker players are facing closure. While this is grim for those who face job loss and financial uncertainty, there’s not a lot of
Chris Hipkins really is as politically stupid as he appears. In his infinite wisdom, he decided to have a battle of wits with Winston Peters, a battle that I might add he is singularly ill-equipped to deal with. But he went there. The New Zealand First leader and Cabinet minister
