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The Doctor My heart warms at all the impassioned articles and comments that defend the doctrine of free speech. People seem to have in mind what I call “gentlemen’s debate at the town hall” view of speech where we all respect each other and listen to each other’s
LGB Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand plainsight.nz To, Rt Hon Chris Hipkins, Prime Minister Hon Carmel Sepuloni, Deputy Prime Minister Hon Ginny Andersen, Minister of Police & Minister for Seniors Hon Jan Tinetti, Minister for Women Hon Priyanca Radhakrishnan, Minister for the Community & Voluntary Sector, Disability Issues, Diversity, Inclusion,
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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. Lobbyists have never been under such intense pressure and scrutiny. There is currently a real momentum building to rein in New Zealand’
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has studied science and grazing animal management. He started adult life believing all government health advice. He ate minimal butter, cheese and salt and chose lots of vegetarian options, including fake meat. Health for him and his family suffered. Slowly he came to his senses, returned
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com This Australian story demonstrates what appears to be the same, possibly deliberate, failings that our monitoring systems in New Zealand have. There seems to be an international playbook in action. In times gone by, when medicine and science were to be
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Prime Minister’s ‘lobbying crackdown’ is purely symbolic and a distraction from the real issue – the Official Information Act. There can be no accountability if there are no penalties for suppressing and covering up information. Labour is throwing Stuart Nash under the bus and
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Remember after the 2017 election when Winston Peters, for no good reason, threw his support behind the smaller of the two main parties and brought Labour to office? That party had only slogans they called policy, and proceeded to establish more than 200 taxpayer-funded working
Stuart Nash has decided that his political career is over. He’s calling it quits at the election. This should surprise no one; this week promises to be even more dire for him as more details of his deliberate obfuscation in OIA requests and to the Ombudsman get aired. Labour
I wonder how much research into his history was done before awarding him Young New Zealander of the year? Will he be stripped of it now it’s all coming out? Shaneel showing his true colours. pic.twitter.com/IdK1KkPq6J — The Golden Age is coming (@PatriotNz2022) April 2, 2023 Read
Lawrence W Reed fee.org 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
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, PhD is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. For origins see stemed.info/engineer_tackles_confusion.html. For over 100 prior articles for CFACT see http://www.cfact.org/author/david-wojick-ph-d/ Available for confidential research
Davis Taylor ronpaulinstitute.org That article about amnesty – the one so many found infuriating – fired me up too, but for a different reason than most. The hypocrisy of the mass, indignant reaction to it was almost too much for me to bear. A contingent has formed of the newly outraged
