Everything about politics
Last week, I looked at the first instalment of Karen Harradine’s The Indoctrinators. Which, naturally, examined the Lizard King himself, George Soros. This week: the Bond Villain knockoff, Klaus Schwab. As always, the challenge with these creeps is walking the razor’s edge between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact.
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
John Laurent John Laurent is an organisation development consultant working with organisations in building open democratically aligned high-performance cultures. He has worked in the pulp and paper, plastics, engineering, food processing, pharmaceutical, professional services and aged care sectors in New Zealand, Australia and China. He is unusual for a
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com The announcement over the weekend that Australia has decided to allow New Zealanders who have lived in Australia for four years to acquire Australian citizenship has been greeted with mixed emotions in New Zealand. On the one hand, a great many people have welcomed the new
I’m not really intending to make this a series, but the response to my last two articles has been surprising. So let’s make it a trifecta. Let’s talk about Winston. Winston Peters. The Lazarus of the political scene. He has resurrected himself more times than an extra
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. The revelations that the Race Relations Commissioner, Meng
The Defence Force is in crisis. It’s actually worse than that: if it were an accident victim being triaged, it’d be classified as unlikely to live, regardless of what care it received. That’s how bad it is, as we will demonstrate to readers with leaked internal documents
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A growing grassroots movement is campaigning to have the Marsden Point oil refinery operating again. […] Operation Good Oil spokesman Karl Barkley is travelling throughout the country promoting the project, which aims to get shareholder control of Channel Infrastructure and reinstate the refinery. If 100,000 people bought a hundred shares
Colin Parkinson As we remember those who have sacrificed their lives for this country, so that we may live in freedom, let us also take time to reflect on where our country has been, where it is now and where it seems to be heading. Lest we forget those who
Some years ago, in my previous life as a graphic designer, I was tasked with preparing a website for a client who ran a male escort agency. It was all very tasteful stuff — the client made clear that their’s wasn’t some kind of sleazy Grindr knockoff. In fact,
A new version of Nobody Someone’s “You Will Not Stand Alone” was recorded with eight guest musicians. All musicians are New Zealand artists who are anti-mandate and pro-freedom. The artists began uniting since 2021, by contributing their original songs to the 5 volumes of Freedom Music Compilations.
Hipkins and McAnulty have performed a water-conjuring trick by making co-governance disappear. This was a word which we thought had become part of the New Zealand lexicon because we had heard it so often. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the Ministry of Truth would use a
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is a lecturer in Government and Public Policy at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Minister of Justice Kiri Allan is currently pushing through a programme of reform to the rules around political fundraising by politicians. And
April 25th marks the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during World War I, at Gallipoli. New Zealand and Australia mark the anniversary each year, remembering not only those who died at Gallipoli, but all who have served their country in times of war. The
April 23rd,2023. Before we look at the events happening to and within the Scottish National Party (SNP) it is useful to look at the difference in the prosecution processes. In England, criminal prosecutions are controlled by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which is an independent service. In Scotland, they
