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JD In a time when employers are crying out for workers, it’s interesting to analyse the unemployment statistics, always recognising that the figures themselves are something of a farce given what is or isn’t considered when they are compiled. For example, if you haven’t looked for a
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Is it a problem that lobbying firms are being given contracts by government departments? Such firms, who assist private businesses
The first post-election Taxpayers’ Union/Curia Poll was released yesterday. Unsurprisingly it has cemented the popularity of the new Government in waiting. Predictably, Chris Hipkins’s popularity has nose-dived like a lead balloon. Headline Results for November’s Taxpayers’ Union – Curia Poll: * National: 37.0% support (down 1.
Morgan Marietta University of Texas at Arlington theconversation.com Should it be legal to take away the guns of people who are under a domestic violence protective order, which aims to shield victims from their abusers? That’s the question posed in one of the biggest cases of the current
Alex Christy Alex Christy currently serves as news analyst for NewsBusters primarily focused on cable news and the late night comedy shows. His work has been cited in Fox News, Newsmax, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, Mediaite, Townhall, RedState, The Blaze, National Review, The Federalist, NewsNation, Newsweek, and forced
The Voice referendum taught us a great many things — not least that, given the chance, Australians soundly reject identity politics and wokeism. More particularly, though, it showed us just how glaringly out of step with the mainstream that the redoubts of wokeism — the inner-Sydney and Melbourne, Teal-voting, quinoa
Does anyone remember the song Welcome Home by a duo called Peters and Lee from 1973? The chorus of the song is particularly applicable to the situation the Labour Party finds itself in, Opposition. The words are: Welcome home, welcome Come on in, and close the door You’ve been
It’s really annoying when a viable but frequently unreliable alternative to the MSM attracts public attention but fails to properly prepare and dispense reliable information. This week Sean Plunket made a complete arse of himself during his interview with Kirsten Murfitt by inviting her onto his show and shouting
You really have to wonder what sort of drugs Labour is imbibing to come up with this sort of nonsensical rubbish to explain away why they lost. But here we are: Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins does not think ruling out a capital gains or wealth tax this year cost
The first rounds of polls since the Voice referendum defeat are in, and the news is dire for PM Anthony Albanese. Not fatal, perhaps, or at least not yet, but yet another indication that the Labor government is fast bleeding out in its first term. Combined with polling on the
Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick’s ‘incendiary chant’ at pro-Palestine rally under fire. […] Swarbrick and the Greens took the stage, yelling this controversial phrase: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” There were six Green MPs on stage when Chloe said her anti-Semitic chant – they all
The shameful onslaught of open anti-Semitism in Australia and New Zealand shows no sign of abating. While odious Greens Jew-baiter Chloe Swarbrick is finally being called out by some for her repeated invocations to Jewish genocide, just as many in the Israel-deranged media-left are resorting to
Richard Shaw Massey University theconversation.com Here go again. The final results of this year’s election have delivered two more seats to te Pati Maori, thereby increasing the size of New Zealand’s 54th Parliament to 123 seats (once the Port Waikato by-election has taken place). The double
Can we stop pretending now that mass immigration is nothing more than a particularly nasty Ponzi scheme which punishes native citizens to reward the elites? Even the former Reserve Bank governor admitted it: mass immigration kept workers’ wages low while allowing lazy, mendicant big businesses to avoid properly training local
bobmccoskrie.com Last week I joined 1,500 delegates from 72 countries in London for perhaps the largest gathering of social conservatives & centre-right leaders in recent times – the ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) inaugural conference. As ex-Deputy PM of Australia, the speaker at our Gala Dinner recently,
