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On Friday, the Waatea News reported this: A Maori trade delegation has left to explore new opportunities in South East Asia. The delegation of emerging food and beverage business leaders will visit Singapore and Thailand on a trip organised by the Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whitau Tuhono, with support
Thirty years ago, a Labor government all-but bankrupted the state of Victoria. Against a torrent of hate and vilification from the left, Jeff Kennett and Alan Stockdale did the hard yards of rebuilding the state’s economy. And Victorians promptly elected another Labor government. In fact, Labor have run
Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz FACT OR FICTION A copy of the government’s newly published budget has somehow already made its way into Upper Hutt Library. The book – which apparently needed to be printed with taxpayer money and could not simply exist as a PDF – was not part of the
Remember when Ukraine was “the most corrupt country in Europe”? It still is, of course. The mainstream media, bootlickers for the military-industrial complex that they are, just want you to forget that. They’ve got a new narrative to spin now, to keep the war machine turning. The propaganda
Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University Kate C. Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Victoria University of Wellington; Michael P. Cameron, Professor of Economics, University of Waikato Robin Gauld, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean, University of Otago Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer
Helen Houghton Co-leader New Conservative nc.org.nz Strong families are the foundation of a healthy society. But for decades governments have been introducing policies that undermine the family, whether it is by taking over more and more of the parents’ role (everything from free school lunches to relationship
Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published by The Common Room. Chris Hipkins must be fast realising that with friends like Te Pati Maori he really doesn’t need enemies. In fact,
Yesterday was the second episode of A Political Agenda which played during Paul Brennan’s breakfast show, With me were Maree Buscke 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?
On budget night the National Party, caught flat-footed by not having bothered to spend the time preparing an alternative budget, had a sudden rush of poo to the brains and their headline act was to announce they were going to reverse the Government’s cancelling of the $5 co-
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Voters in every state or country with woke politicians at the wheel should follow unfolding developments in Australia’s capital. The government of the Australian Capital Territory – a self-governing jurisdiction with 430,000
Is the “Indigenous Voice” referendum dead? It’s far too soon to get our hopes up, but the racist proposed Constitutional amendment is certainly gasping for breath, right now. Its biggest problem is that it’s suffering the same issue as the 1999 Republic referendum: the more the Australian people
It looks like the penny has finally dropped for the federal Liberal party, at least. Peter Dutton finally seems to have realised that conservatives don’t win votes by aping extremist green-left wokery. First, Dutton made the brave, decent decision to oppose the racist “Indigenous Voice” referendum, over the
Ben Shapiro newsbusters.org Ben Shapiro is editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire and host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the top conservative podcast in the nation. Shapiro is the author of seven nonfiction books, including The New York Times bestseller Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear
Stella Paul brownstone.org Stella Paul is the pen name of a writer in New York who has covered medical issues for over a decade. In 2021, she lost her husband in a locked down nursing home in New York City where he had been brutally isolated for almost a
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. Since 2018, Kurt has been the Research and Features Editor at the Canberra Declaration. He is also a freelance writer, and a regular contributor at the Spectator Australia,
Taking the job of opposition leader immediately after an election defeat is nearly always a thankless task. It’s a poison chalice of dire poll numbers while the new government basks in its honeymoon phase. Especially when you’re the arch-enemy of the media and the chattering classes, a
