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Suze Wilson Massey University theconversation.com Given the presidential style of modern politics, the intense media focus on party leaders is unavoidable. But this involves a degree of artifice. New Zealanders don’t vote directly for a prime minister, they vote for their preferred party and electorate candidate. Technicalities aside,
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 The election campaign is in its final, frenzied stage. I suspect most people have already made up their minds.
No one’s ever accused Australia’s “Minister for Climate Change and Energy”, Chris Bowen, of being any kind of genius, but does he have to make such a point of being so dumb? When Boofhead tried to hose down growing calls for Australia to adopt nuclear energy, by claiming
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The Royal Commission of Inquiry into all things covid has visited Tairawhiti according to an article in The Gisborne Herald. The title of the article Investigating ‘everything to do with the pandemic’ is a little misleading when the details are considered.
The arse-covering and politicking over the disgraceful pro-terrorist celebrations and anti-Semitic demonstrations from Sydney’s Muslim community — and Greens politicians — are coming thick and fast. Although no-one is addressing the camel in the tent: that there is a segment of the Australian population, one with outsized political influence on the
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New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com As the New Zealand election looms, most agree that the current Labour coalition government is on the way out. No bad thing as we learn that their assaults on our health service include potentially thousands of doctors quietly exempted from covid
While I personally am not yet convinced, it does seem increasingly likely that Winston and New Zealand First could well be a part of the next government. While that gives me cause for some trepidation it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that there are gains to be had
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com During a recent political ‘debate’ between Labour and National leaders, one quick-fire question was: Do you think people with legitimate vaccine injuries should get compensation? Being doctors, this question caught our attention. First, we wondered what a ‘legitimate’ vaccine injury was.
Let me preface this opinion piece by saying that I know Matt King of DemocracyNZ. I have on several occasions met his wife, and his parents. They are all good, honest, reliable, hard-working people. As, of course, is Matt. Matt King is the hardest working MP and aspiring MP that
Chris Trotter Chris Trotter is New Zealand’s leading leftwing political commentator, with 30 years of experience writing professionally about New Zealand politics. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz WHAT HAS CHRIS BISHOP SEEN that has so unhinged him? Why would National’s Campaign Manager, whose party is currently attracting
National is looking increasingly desperate as it becomes apparent that their best-laid plans to govern with Act alone are turning to dust before their eyes. But it doesn’t really matter because the voters are so over Labour that they are willing to hold their nose and vote to get
The events of the last few days have shocked a lot of people. It’s enormously sad that Israel has been attacked by terrorists but hopefully, something good will come out of it. Hopefully, lots of folks are shaken out of their torpor. These events reminded me of a curious
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk Scottish Green Party MSP, Gillian Mackay, has published a bill that proposes introducing the most extreme abortion buffer zone laws in the world in Scotland, making it illegal to offer assistance to women seeking an abortion within 200m of an abortion clinic or
By now, you’re no doubt all-too-grimly familiar with the horrific details of the terrorist invasion of Israel. From late Saturday afternoon, when I noticed “Hamas” and “Israel” trending on X — hours before the media “broke” the story — we’ve all seen too much blood and horror for me to
