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The Foreign Affairs Puzzle Facing New Zealand’s New Govt

The Foreign Affairs Puzzle Facing New Zealand’s New Govt

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

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It Only Took 17 Months…

In 1941 the Australian Labor Party came into office due to a dirty deal by cross-bench MPs. Its Prime Minister, John Curtin, was completely unsuited to the job (basically a fall-down drunk) – thrown into an international crisis with little idea of what to do, saved from himself by officials, and

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What Our New Govt Must Reject

What Our New Govt Must Reject

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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They Are Ducking for Cover

They Are Ducking for Cover

At a pre-election debate the PM in waiting was asked, should people with legitimate vaccine injuries get compensation? Christopher Luxon emphatically answered, No. He made his party’s view very clear. Vaccine-injured New Zealanders would not be supported financially. In January 2021, Grant Robertson, as Labour’s Finance Minister, granted

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The 2023 Election in Retrospect

The 2023 Election in Retrospect

Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com Our finally completed election results need to be viewed on several levels. On the surface, the change of government

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Media Are the Ultimate Slow Learners

Media Are the Ultimate Slow Learners

Over the past few days we have seen the unedifying behaviour of mainstream journalists as they seek to create stories out of nowhere. They are so put out that neither Christopher Luxon nor David Seymour, nor especially Winston Peters, will speak to them. They are very put out that their

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Swarbrick Must Explain Use of Hamas Phrase

Swarbrick Must Explain Use of Hamas Phrase

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Green MP Chloe Swarbrick must explain why she is repeating statements from the terrorist organisation Hamas’ charter. Chloe Swarbrick was videoed leading a chant of ”From the river to the sea” at the same rally where Labour MP Phil Twyford was forced off the stage

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Banishing Ghosts after the Past Three Years

Charles Krblich Chuck Krblich works in the insurance and reinsurance industries as a catastrophe manager. brownstone.org My wonderful wife handles all of the Halloween planning for our family. She arranges the costumes, the candy, puts up the decorations, and manages the inevitable costume parties. This year my wife chose

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They Are Forcing Reduced Energy Use

Jack Spencer Jack Spencer is a senior research fellow for energy and environmental policy at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com These mandated standards, which came into effect this year, are enforced through the Building Energy Performance Standards program, which requires that building

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Numbers of MAID Are Increasing

Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator mercatornet.com In 2022, 13,241 Canadians died through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) – 4.1 per cent of all deaths. The advance of MAID has been astonishing. Since euthanasia and assisted suicide were legalised in 2016, there have been 44,958

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The Real Villain in the Shawshank Redemption

The Real Villain in the Shawshank Redemption

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In a 2016 interview, Stephen King was asked if he had “a personal favorite” film adaptation of one of his stories. The first movie out of the bestselling author’s

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No, C-19 Vaccinations Are Not a Free Market Victory

No, C-19 Vaccinations Are Not a Free Market Victory

David Brady, Jr David Brady is a Catholic libertarian and economics and finance undergraduate student at Florida Southern College. He is a co-host of the “Econphonics” podcast and a Mises Apprentice. mises.org In light of Nobel Prizes being given to two researchers of mRNA Covid-19 vaccinations, beltway establishments like

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I’m Taking a Break from Politics
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I’m Taking a Break from Politics

rightminds.nz The final election results are in and so is my decision to hang up my coat. I planned to stay and build up the New Conservatives into the next few elections, but after the total collapse of our vote down to 0.15 per cent that is no

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We’re Witnessing the Fall of Wokism

We’re Witnessing the Fall of Wokism

Christian Toto newsbusters.org Megyn Kelly has a personal gripe with the woke mob. It essentially ended her broadcast career in 2018. Kelly, then working with NBC News, downplayed outrage over children dressing in blackface in ways that enraged the social justice warriors of that time. “Truly, you do get

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Should MMP and Maori Seats Go?

Should MMP and Maori Seats Go?

A controversial headline, perhaps, but designed to spark debate. I will attempt to justify it with some facts, both positive and negative; however, the negatives outweigh the positives by some margin. The 2023 election is of course a true result of an election run under the MMP system, but I

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