Everything about politics
The Ponderer I and my wider family have been involved in minor party politics for many years. I’ve been the enthusiastic supporter, the optimistic candidate, and am now the wiser realist. I want to simply explain exactly what the minor “freedom” parties can and cannot achieve this election, and
So: they’ve done it. If there’s anyone left that didn’t believe this is the most arrogant, despicable and anti-democratic government our deteriorating country has ever endured, they have their proof now with the Water Services Entities Amendment act. The mongrels have now claimed, seized, appropriated, call
This week’s Political Agenda with Paul Brennan, Cam Slater, Olivia Pierson and Marty Gibson. Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund our NewsDesk? * For security reasons, credit card donations require Javascript. Please enable
This week’s guests were Sandra Goudie, political Svengali and master of the political dark arts Simon Lusk and Rob Ballantyne. Enjoy the replays! Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund our NewsDesk? * For
Mårten Schultz Stockholm University theconversation.com To people outside Sweden it may seem surprising that police have, on several recent occasions, granted people express permission to burn copies of the Qur’an in public. The incidents have caused upset and triggered a significant debate about the far right co-opting
Poet A. D. Hope famously described Australia as a land of “five cities, like five teeming sores”. If Anthony Albanese has his way, it will be teeming sores from sea to shining sea. What little of Australia that isn’t buried under a “forest of windfarms” or “endless arrays of
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
Sometimes a hard dose of reality salts can work wonders on a politician’s utopian delusions. Unfortunately, though, it’s almost always other people who pay the heaviest price. Especially when it comes to the demented virtue-signalling of the open borders fanatics. Back in May, Erie County Executive Mark
As I wrote recently, wealthy Greens and Teal voters in the expensive suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne are quite happy for other people to pay to “save the planet”. Who cares if country people have to watch their environment be buried beneath, and I quote a Climate Cultist scientist, “Forests
There are only eight weeks to the election, and smaller parties are still popping up with the hope of drawing the attention of voters. With National and Act polling well, a coalition between them seems the obvious outcome. The question is will they have sufficient numbers to form a government
Arthur On Monday the 14th of August that ‘upmarket’ toilet paper news rag, The Post in Wellington, owned by that disinformation site NZ Stuff aka Stuff (the truth), featured an article about Wellington regional councillor Yadana Saw who indulged in the hobby of choice for those few in immigrant minority
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
Christopher Luxon has been criticised for constantly pointing out that the election is not about him, or about Chris Hipkins. This criticism came from the wonderful Tova OBrien, who was roundly rebuffed for her efforts by Chris Penk. In an amusing tweet, Penk pointed out that Tova was in no
Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits
On Wednesday night the Government pushed through a change to the voting age in local body elections, lowering it to 16 years old. It is a sneaky, furtive, surreptitious move by the ever-so-transparent Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty! Last night, in a dazzling display of democracy at its
Kate C. Prickett Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com By introducing four weeks of paid parental leave for partners if re-elected, the Labour Party would move New Zealand out of an undesirable and tiny club of OECD nations. Only the United States and Israel would then not offer something
