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Former prime minister Chris Hipkins is giving his first press conference as leader of the Opposition, as the Labour Party gets stuck into the new National-led Government with new claims of a “growing fiscal hole”. “I said during the election campaign I was expecting this coalition to be a
Steve Goreham Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. cfact.org The nations of the world pursue an
It’s official: the Albanese government is up to its neck in it and they haven’t got a Floatie. Worse for them, they don’t know how to swim, not even a dog paddle. The latest opinion polls are out, and they paint a brutal picture. The fallout from
A bad wog with a Get Out of Jail Free card goes on the lam. Well, who couldn’t have seen that coming? Maybe John Kerry, who, when told a freed Gitmo jihadi had gone right back to his jihadin’ ways, mumbled, “Uh… well… he’s not supposed to do
David Smith University of Sydney theconversation.com Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, a zealous convert to Donald Trump’s cause, once offered an expansive vision of how Trump should rule in a second term: “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our
Mike Fairclough Mike’s successful 20-year career in education ended when he questioned vaccine policy for schoolchildren. He has been investigated by his employer, and he has since taken his employer to the employment tribunal. brownstone.org During the Covid-19 pandemic, I was the only serving UK headteacher
If there’s one thing we know about the left, it’s that they never take “no” for an answer. Like the political spoiled toddlers that they are, a firm “no” only sends them off into screaming tantrums. They stamp their widdle feets and hold their widdle breafs, hoping that
Alwyn Poole Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.com Dear
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there
Do you recall when The Beatles visited New Zealand? Perhaps you were a teenager or young adult? In the same period between then and now – sixty years – our doughty antecedents built a nation; it was that quick. They didn’t worry too much about childish matters like health and safety,
For all their blatherskite about “the right side of history”, artists don’t have a very good track record on the matter. After all, unquestioning allegiance to communism was — and too often still is — de rigeur for the Arts luvvies, for decades. The Italian Futurists, like Marinetti, were early thought-
First, let me explain the headline of the article. This is a key government in the sense that it is key, indeed holds the keys, to implementing policies that will unlock the country from the straitjacket the previous government has put it in. We elected a government to advance this
Dominic O’Sullivan Charles Sturt University theconversation.com All three parties in New Zealand’s new coalition government went into the election promising to diminish various Maori-based policies or programs. But it was the ACT Party that went furthest, calling for a referendum to redefine the “principles” of te
The unhinged left and the professional bludger class who take government money to lobby the government are struggling to understand why the new government is reversing Labour’s tobacco prohibition measures. The same people who pontificated throughout Covid, arguing for lockdowns, masks that didn’t work and mandatory vaccines, are
The Media Party’s war against Winston Peters continues with Jenna Lynch, and now Jason Walls, upset that Winston Peters is dropping truth bombs in their laps. Apparently, the $55 million bribes of the Public Interest Journalism Fund didn’t buy anything, much less a hard editorial line. They may
