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If the Maori Party were kingmaker, would the result be legitimate? Revelations early in May 2023 in the NZ Herald that “the social services charity Waipareira Trust had agreed with Charities Services to cease making political donations and take steps to claw back $385,000 of interest-free loans made
Liam Hehir commonroomnz.com Liam Hehir is a lawyer and political commentator. He publishes his opinion pieces on The Blue Review on Patreon, is a guest writer for The Spinoff, and regularly appears as a panellist on Q&A with Jack Tame. This article was previously published at The
Just when you think Christopher Luxon is getting his act together along comes another self-inflicted wound to undo the headway he was just begining to make. It’s now a sad but predictable state of affairs for a man who is running out of time and feet to shoot
Proving my adage that the dogs of political scandal are indiscriminate pack-hunters, the Brittany Higgins whirlwind continues to wreak havoc all round in the trailer park of Canberra politics. Anthony Albanese’s government is getting a mauling that shows no sign of letting up as the parliamentary sitting week
For decades, Western governments have known that they faced a looming demographic tsunami of Boomer codgers swamping health and aged care systems. The electoral cycle being what it is, decades of governments have chosen to do sod-all about it and just keep kicking the can down the road for
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
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com/post As cabinet ministers traipse around the country, feverishly talking up Budget largesse in the hope it will help their re-election, they inadvertently let slip what Labour’s key priorities are. A recent senior citizens’ meeting was told that grants to Maori are top priority.
The latest Minister of Police Ginny Andersen is no more than a very lightweight ‘smart-arse’ politician. My wife has a penchant for watching Question(able) Time in the House. I happened to be in the wrong room at the wrong time and caught the Minister trying to evade giving
Cranmer cranmer.substack.com Lawyer with over 25 years experience in some of the world’s biggest law firms. I divide my time between the UK and NZ. This Substack explores issues facing NZ at present under my nom du plume, Cranmer. Amongst the seemingly constant stream of ministerial missteps
Brian Tamaki Parents, where is your outrage at the Transgender agenda trying to recruit your kids, right under your noses, in our schools? If you’re a parent with children or youths in a state school, I’d strongly encourage you to keep your kids home this week and boycott
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com At a post-Cabinet press conference on the 8th of February, just two weeks after becoming New Zealand’s 41st Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins announced that Labour’s proposed hate speech legislation would be withdrawn and the matter referred to the Law Commission. He explained
The government has played all their cards in the budget. Everything they do from now on is on a wing and a prayer; they’ll need to throw everything at the problem they are facing, and it is a problem of their own making. How do Labour lose the next
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Connor Mortell Connor Mortell graduated from Texas Christian University with a BBA in finance, minoring in Chinese language and culture. After graduation, he worked as a legislative aide in the Florida House of Representatives from 2019–21. Currently he is an MBA student at Florida State University. Additionally, he is
Thomas Harrington Thomas Harrington, Senior Brownstone Scholar and 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where he taught for 24 years. His research is on Iberian movements of national identity and contemporary Catalan culture. His essays are published at Words in The
June 11th 2023 Just as we are trying to get on with life in the UK as we have had two weeks of continuous fine weather with temperatures hitting 24c plus (Yes, that’s right 24c+). The climate change lobby has been out preaching doom and disaster whilst a prominent
