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Rav Arora Rav Arora is an independent journalist based in Vancouver, Canada. Jayanta Bhattacharya Jay Bhattacharya is a physician, epidemiologist and health economist. He is Professor at Stanford Medical School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy
The Albanese government’s demented climate policies are helping drive the cost of living for Australians through the roof. So, the government is throwing money back at Australians as “cost of living relief”. To pay for the “relief”, they’re jacking up taxes on energy, which will… You get the
Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com alwyn.poole@gmail.com Education is in genuine crisis in New Zealand and the statistics are now widely known. Jan Tinetti, the latest Minister of Education, is currently flapping around trying to say that she did not manipulate attendance data releases to coincide with a
So, Jan Tinetti, the latest iteration of a Minister of Education, turned up for an interview with Ryan Bridge. The education system is said to be in “a crisis of achievement and a crisis of attendance”. The current structure is not delivering the results we need as parents, as employers,
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. The Green Party should be very high in the opinion polls right now. Historically, when Labour is low in the polls the Greens tend
The latest Taxpayers’ Union/Curia Poll has been released. The key take out from the poll is that although it shows National and Act can govern it also shows that National is failing to gain traction while Christopher Luxon’s personal polling is hampering any potential growth in the party
NZ politician caught allegedly following graphic underage Instagram account Labour politician Grant Robertson under fire after internet sleuths claim he was following a controversial Instagram account. […] The account, which has more than 40,000 followers, features photos and videos of what appear to be underage boys from the Philippines in
Mark Oshinskie brownstone.org Mark Oshinskie is an attorney, athlete, artist, agricultor, and advocate. In April, 1978, when I was college sophomore, I went to hear a night-time guest lecture by Michael Harrington, the sociologist and author of the influential 1960s book, The Other America: Poverty in the United
Somehow, it’s hard to be quite so hoopla as Zippy and Albo are at their “budget surplus”, when mortgages, power bills, fuel prices and grocery prices are zooming into the stratosphere. Especially when the “surplus” is entirely a chimaera of creative accounting and tax gouging, and splashing benefit handouts
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. Dáil Eireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament, has just passed the most radical hate speech law in the history of the Irish State, a law so
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Below are two letters of complaint from doctors that were sent to various officials (Bloomfield, Ardern, Hipkins) in Sept 2021 referencing an Open Letter written by Mary Hobbs about NZDSOS and posted on our (NZDSOS) website. They have perhaps been written
You’ve got to hand it to him, I suppose: few politicians are as Teflon-coated as Victoria’s “Dictator Dan”, premier Daniel Andrews. Family car mows down a cyclist? Heck, just drive off with the full blessing of attending police, no breath test needed. Detectives asking to arrest multiple
Christopher Luxon National Party leader As you know, I’m committed to National leading a strong stable government after the election. That government will be relentlessly focussed on managing the economy well and addressing the cost of living so all New Zealanders can get ahead. Today, I have ruled out
Jacqui Van Der Kaay democracyproject.nz Jacqui Van Der Kaay is a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a former journalist, holds a Masters degree in Political Science from Victoria University of Wellington and has a specialist interest in political leadership, voter behaviour, immigration and how social
