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Freedoms New Zealand On Wednesday, Brian Tamaki launched Freedoms New Zealand’s controversial law & order policy at the Grand Millennium Hotel, situated in the heart of Auckland CBD. This is the primary policy that Brian Tamaki is personally championing on the campaign trail, leveraging his extensive forty years of
In 2017 Labour came in on the crest of a wave led by “Surfer Girl” Jacinda Ardern. Who remembers the Beach Boys song written by Brian Wilson? The song is described as a teenage daydream; it swoons over the object of his affection, imagining their future together seemingly before they’
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Associate Health Minister Willow-Jean Prime was blissfully unaware of her own policy when I asked her about it in Parliament Wednesday. Thursday she corrected her answers and admitted that pregnant mothers are receiving $50 prezzy cards purely because of their
Three polls within a week tell the story that many have been longing to hear: Labour’s bubble has burst, and they are now circling the drain. The latest Newshub/Reid Research poll reflects both the Taxpayers’ Union/Curia poll and the Roy Morgan Poll. The New Zealand public has
Casey Harper D.C. Bureau Reporter thecentersquare.com President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are tied in a general election face-off, according to newly released polling data. The New York Times/Siena College poll results released Tuesday show both candidates have 43% support. As The Center Square
As Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett so woefully demonstrated, it’s one thing to shout right-on slogans in catchy pop songs, quite another to deliver effective policy-making in the real world. The same could be said for Yothu Yindi’s 1991 hit, Treaty. Infectious dance-floor fodder, certainly.
In an ominous sign for premier Dan Andrews, Victorian cross-benchers have unanimously backed a parliamentary inquiry into his government’s scrapping of the 2026 Commonwealth Games. These are the same cross-benchers who were rusted solidly onto “Dictator Dan” right through the pandemic. Now they’ve joined the opposition
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com In this post, we want to roll together three very recent publications that neatly overlap. They both cry foul on the sidelining of due diligence regarding the synthetic gene transfer technology masquerading as a vaccine. In short, the dangers of the
The current parlous state of the Liberal-National coalition parties in Australia has the mainstream media and the green-left (a tautology: I apologise) cock-a-whoop. “This is the end of the Tories!”, they crow. Certainly, it may seem that way — at least, if you ignore 100 years of
Bruce Cotterill 5 time CEO, Company Director, Advisor to Business Leaders, Keynote Speaker, Columnist and Bestselling Author commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room Things don’t always change for the better. I was born in the 1960s, so I grew up at a time that
Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. bassettbrashandhide.com Even the PM is not convinced NZ First will shun Labour. In November last year, the NZ Herald’s senior political correspondent Audrey Young broke the news that “For the
Timothy Welch Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning University of Auckland The old joke about “just one more lane” being all that’s needed to solve traffic congestion has been heard a few times since the National Party released its transport policy this week. The plan is nothing if not ambitious:
The major political parties agree on the importance of allocating funding to fixing substandard roads and developing new roading infrastructure. In 2017 the Ardern Government signed a “memorandum of arrangement” to develop a work plan for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) within 18 months; and in 2023 the
Nicole Satherley, Honorary Academic in Psychology Andrew Sporle, Honorary Associate professor University of Auckland Lara Greaves, Associate professor Victoria University of Wellington The closer we come to election day on October 14, the more media focus we’ll see on political polls. Poll results are often used to project the
I’ve always suspected that Luxon was a Sinophile, just like his pal John Key. Yesterday he proved it without a shadow of a doubt by enthusiastically saying he’d take CCP cash to fund roads. National Party leader Christopher Luxon has said the party would “absolutely” accept Chinese money
