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The Blonde Is the current voting system working as it should? I would say No. I believe that voters are subjected to misleading information – ‘misinformation’, as it’s known. When MMP was introduced it was explained simply as one vote for your candidate of choice and one vote for your
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary and a young
In 2017 Jacinda Ardern promised to ban mining on DOC land and now it seems that this is back on the table as it has been ‘rubber stamped’ by the cabinet. Banning things is the one thing the Labour Government can claim they deliver. Currently, 0.04% of DOC land
Are you frustrated with the increasing use of te reo Maori in the mainstream news and weather? The TVNZ/RNZ merger was proposed because viewer numbers were down. One might expect that a revamp to regain viewers and advertisers would be in order. Maybe not. Early last year, the Labour
Camellia Webb-Gannon Lecturer University of Wollongong “Phil Mehrtens is the nicest guy, he genuinely is – no one ever had anything bad to say about him”, says a colleague of the New Zealand pilot taken hostage this week by members of the West Papuan Liberation Army (TPN-PB) in the
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics,
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. (Follow him on Substack.) His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington
William Spruance brownstone.org William Spruance is a practicing attorney and a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. The ideas expressed in the article are entirely his own and not necessarily those of his employer. War benefits Leviathan. Abstract opposition allows leaders to seize power amid the fear of the
Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to COVID-19 since March 2020 and previously authored China’s Global
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. This week’s bonfire of policy was also a bonfire of cash. The Hipkins-led Government finally ditched the RNZ-TVNZ media merger, but only
Unlike Mike Munro, who has Chris Hipkins as the PM for the next four years with the election in the bag, Bruce Cotterill in his article asks whether he is a man of action or a man of words. Bruce describes Hipkins as a good communicator, sharp, witty and likeable.
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Vera Sharav is a Romanian-born Jewish US citizen who survived the Holocaust including three years in a Ukrainian concentration camp as a child. Today she is a prominent advocate for medical rights and freedoms, the President of the Alliance for
The Business section of the Weekend Herald, Saturday February 4, contained a lot of good reading for which the paper deserves credit. High praise coming from yours truly. There was an in depth article on the airport and the problems confronting it. Fran O’Sullivan was sensibly suggesting giving Mayor
The late Sir Apirana Ngata is a man I never knew personally but from his preserved words and the reverence in which he was held as a scholar in contrasting worlds: those of Maori lore and British law, as a politician of long (nearly forty years) standing, and as a
You know it’s an election year when the Government abandons an Ardern-inspired piece of legislation. The proposed new hate speech law is now on ice because it’s divisive, too hard to complete and unpopular; with the added downside of potentially costing Labour mainstream votes if they push
