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NZ Media in Election Year

NZ Media in Election Year

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com When the media went cap in hand to Jacinda Ardern’s government with sad tales about their declining financial position, ministers responded with the Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF). Newspaper editors realized there was a risk that people would think that upwards of $50 million of

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Oh, So Now You Are Interested in Human Rights?

Oh, So Now You Are Interested in Human Rights?

Without even a shred of shame, David Seymour spoke at Waitangi about preserving universal human rights. So, apparently, now David Seymour is interested in universal human rights, freedom, and equality. Well, I’m sorry David, are you wanting us to forget just how little you cared about universal human rights,

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Rhetoric of the Day

Rhetoric of the Day

Waitangi Day. A national holiday for New Zealand and a quick passing nod to the signing of the Treaty, for most Kiwis. Then there’s the politics… and the media. According to MSM Kiwis are really racist. Are we? Where’s the evidence for this? In recent months right-wing

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The Adventures of Captain Underwhelm

The Adventures of Captain Underwhelm

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The Creep of China into American Life

The Creep of China into American Life

Dave Patterson libertynation.com Keeping the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) out of Americans’ everyday affairs is becoming more challenging. We’ve seen Beijing-backed businesses purchase real estate and other US enterprises. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has scientists embedded in America’s most sensitive research facilities. Liberty

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Stop Police from Using Excessive Force

Stop Police from Using Excessive Force

rutherford.org WASHINGTON, DC In the wake of a spate of incidents involving the use of excessive force by police against unarmed individuals, including the brutal killing of Tyre Nichols by members of a Memphis SCORPION police unit, The Rutherford Institute has called on the US Supreme Court to narrow

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Climate Change and Red Herrings

Climate Change and Red Herrings

Collister Johnson cfact.org Johnson has spent the last four decades working in the public and private sectors in Virginia, primarily in the fields of project finance and maritime transportation. He began his career in public service as Chairman of the Board of the Virginia Port Authority. He was appointed

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Things Are Hotting Up

Things Are Hotting Up

Michael endoftheamericandream.com We are getting dangerously close to a point of no return. For months, both sides have been continuously escalating the war in Ukraine, and now it appears that we are on the verge of the biggest escalation of them all. As I have been repeatedly warning my

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The Diversions Are in Place

Just as the departure of Ardern was weeks in the planning, so too was the socialist party’s attempt at re-election by dividing and (they hope) conquering. Proof of this pudding is the oft-repeated claim ‘We won’t divide people on the basis of race’: a clear case

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Lots of Lovely Words but Were Any of Them True?

Martin Hanson On February 8, a convoy of protesters began to set up camp in Parliament’s grounds. The camp grew into a mini-village, with portaloos and child care with on-the-hoof schooling. The protesters demanded that Prime Minister Ardern meet them to discuss concerns, but were met

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Fed Farmers Says RMA Will Be Worse under Govt Reform
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Fed Farmers Says RMA Will Be Worse under Govt Reform

Simon Edwards simonedwards.nz dailytelegraph.co.nz Simon Edwards is a communications advisor for Federated Farmers, a current Hutt City councillor and former editor of the Hutt News. “Farmers agree the costly, slow and unpredictable processes under the RMA need fixing, but in getting rid of the old dog the

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Media Prove They Are Drongos

Media Prove They Are Drongos

Mayor Wayne Brown calling the media “drongos” was simply echoing what the majority of us have been thinking for some considerable time. It is very clear to all, except the precious little luvvies in the country’s newsrooms, that the mayor doesn’t suffer fools gladly. The likes of Simon

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Korero of the Day
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Korero of the Day

Over the last few years, there’s been an uptick in people wanting to learn Maori. But… Alison Jones, a Pakeha scholar in indigenous education, notices how the demand by non-Maori to have te reo echoes the colonising demand to have Maori land. And: Catherine Delahunty, a Pakeha activist

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How the ‘Unvaccinated’ Got It Right

How the ‘Unvaccinated’ Got It Right

Robin Koerner brownstone.org Robin Koerner is a British-born citizen of the USA, who currently serves as Academic Dean of the John Locke Institute. He holds graduate degrees in both Physics and the Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). Scott Adams is the creator of

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Organised, Aggrieved and Determined to Win

Organised, Aggrieved and Determined to Win

“Muckraking” has pretty negative connotations in journalism today, but it was coined as a badge of honour. In the early 1900s, “muck rakers” were not cheap scandal-mongers, but investigative journalists who dug deep in areas polite society preferred to avoid, in order to expose the horrors lurking underneath: raking

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‘Media Party’ Play ‘Gotcha Games’ with Brown

The Media Party seem to have their hooks into Auckland’s Mayor Wayne Brown over the Noah-type deluge that hit Auckland recently when three months of rain fell in one day. Captain Hook was the pirate character who menaced Peter Pan and the Lost Boys on the Island of

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