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Jeremy Moses Associate Professor in International Relations Sian Troath, Postdoctoral fellow University of Canterbury Defence Minister Andrew Little’s recent announcement that New Zealand would be “willing to explore” participation in military technology sharing – or “pillar two” – under the AUKUS security arrangement has already divided opinion. Proponents have argued participation
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Peter Canaday’s Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (HPDT) Hearing. Dr Peter Canaday, a medical doctor, former respiratory physician and more recently a retired radiologist, defended several charges of alleged professional misconduct laid by the New Zealand Medical Council’s PCC (Professional
David Seymour has Willie Jackson in a panic. ACT’s campaign launch was not to Willie’s liking. According to Willie, a vote for ACT is a vote for the far right. Not for one moment would Willie think a vote for him is a vote for the far left.
Colonel Sponsz Just the other day I had one of those moments of enlightenment – if this were a cartoon there would be a light bulb above my head. I was on the North Shore and noticed with disgust a D-max utility fouling the air with its diesel exhaust. The
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. New Zealanders are supposed to be able to trust that there are adequate systems in place to ensure our politicians aren’t corrupt. There
Michael Wood has dug himself a really deep hole, and fresh allegations raised yesterday in Parliament pretty much sealed his fate. It turns out that he misled Jacinda Ardern’s office, not once but three times, that he had sold his shares. In fact he only sold them yesterday, when
Luxon’s struck a nerve, hasn’t he? He’s been telling Kiwis to have more babies. He was at an infrastructure conference, talking about our shortage of workers to build the infrastructure we need. And he said: “We need people. Here is the deal – New Zealand stopped replacing itself
Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security David Hastings Dunn, Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies University of Birmingham The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam came just as Ukraine’s much-anticipated counter-offensive seemed poised to begin. The breaching of the dam,
Lawrence W. Reed Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real Heroes:
Grant Duncan Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning Massey University Among a host of other recommendations, the Independent Electoral Review has proposed a referendum on extending the term of parliament to four years (from the current three). I’ll admit from the outset to being torn over the
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com ACT party leader David Seymour gives regular interviews on NZ’s very vexxing The Platform, which also hosts a new essay by him, A More Civil Vaccination Policy, in which he makes a number of self-contradictions and surprising backtracks. We
Auckland, thanks to years of economic incompetence from left-wing mayors, is in a $325 million dollar financial hole full of the brown stuff, that Mayor Brown (no relation to the other stuff) wants to extricate Auckland from. In order for this to happen, unpalatable decisions will have to be
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Back now in New Zealand and reading the despair-making budget details, I was staggered to see the government has allocated $ 34 million of our taxes, to promoting bloody hakas. This was described as an “investment”. The report quoted a Carl Ross, appointed as the
The government has announced new vaping restrictions aimed at reducing the number of young people who take up the habit, with a crackdown on cheap disposable vapes, bans on new vape shops near schools and rules around how vaping products can be named. “From August this year, all vaping devices
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org After the great success of the mighty 2022 Convoy and Wellington Protest, which saw tens of thousands of us descend on parliament grounds to voice our disgust at the Covid vaccine mandates and lockdowns, NZ’s ‘freedom vote’ has become a precious commodity to be courted.
