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Gabrielle Bauer brownstone.org Gabrielle Bauer is a Toronto health and medical writer who has won six national awards for her magazine journalism. She has written three books: Tokyo, My Everest, co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Prize, Waltzing The Tango, finalist in the Edna Staebler creative nonfiction award,
As Thomas Sowell has said, “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it”. Well, not only intellectuals — Labor politicians are just as willfully ignorant. But then, as Anthony Albanese so amply demonstrates, socialist Labor politicians can’t even learn
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
Dear One News, Thanks for taking the time to poll the public on 3-Waters co-governance arrangements, finding that 79% of those polled had little or no understanding of the concept. It doesn’t help that you folks don’t have any understanding either. You’re a bit thick,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Stuart Nash is one of the more affable Government MPs. God knows what he’s doing in the Labour Party. A forestry expert with two forestry degrees and needless to say, like seemingly every typist, taxi driver, road worker etc, etc, the possessor of a
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. I teach a first year course at Victoria University of Wellington about government and the political process in New Zealand. In “Introduction to Government and
March 15th, 2023. I was sitting outside today (yes, it wasn’t raining or snowing!) thinking about the impending storms and it was only yesterday that I realised it was Spring as the swans had returned to our little river. Photos supplied. The BFD. Having reflected on how quickly seasons
To paraphrase an excerpt from the Aeneid, beware of Chinese bearing gifts. The original quote refers to the Trojan Horse. So, it seems the Chinese are offering up a ‘Chinese Horse‘, in the form of aid, that will let them get a toehold into New Zealand via their “aid”. The
In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer, left alone to supervise the kids, is given a simple piece of advice: “Always do the opposite of what Bart says”. There are some people in life who are just like that. Their talent for being wrong and/or venal is so pronounced
There are few issues on which the elites are so monstrously out of touch than “climate action” and energy policy. As repeated surveys show, people around the world regularly rank climate change the last out of a list of concerns. Most only even pay lip-service because they’re constantly
Jill Edmondson, Research Fellow in Environmental Change Jonathan Leake, Professor of Plant-Soil Interactions University of Sheffield British supermarkets are imposing limits on how many salad staples shoppers can buy as supply shortages leave shelves empty of some types of fruit and vegetables. The disappearance of fresh produce is said
Cal Thomas Syndicated Columnist newsbusters.org California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced the state will not do business with the Walgreens store chain “or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women’s lives at risk.” Notice the familiar buzzwords – extremists and putting women’s lives at
It’s one thing to be certain in our guts that we’ve been lied to, by the media, law enforcement and government at the highest levels, for years. But it’s quite another to see unequivocal proof of the lies. Lies that have been used to jail hundreds of
Anne-Marie Grisogono, Adjunct professor, Flinders University Roger Bradbury, Emeritus Professor of Complex Systems Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Elizabeth Williams, Senior Lecturer, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University Scott Vella, Researcher at CAP Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU National Security College, Australian National University
There is very little I’ll credit the Albanese government for, but one faint praise I’ll damn them with is that at least they haven’t scuttled the AUKUS deal. In doing so, it’s swimming against some very powerful internal tides. After all, China was clearly hoping for
