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Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com As we look into the New Year, there are a lot of crucial issues facing the country – how do we deal with the ongoing unaffordability of housing (notwithstanding the recent fall in house prices); how do we increase our rate of productivity growth so that we
Ramesh Thakur brownstone.org Ramesh Thakur, a Brownstone Institute Senior Scholar, is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, and emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. The three major controversies over pandemic management for the past three years have been lockdown measures, universal
Nic Rawlence Senior Lecturer in Ancient DNA Kerry Walton Researcher Richard Walter Professor of Archaeology University of Otago New Zealand’s wilderness areas are the jewel in our ecotourism crown. But conservation laws may soon be in for a radical shake-up. Recent proposals would, among other things, allow Maori
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Phil Green To be Te Reo, or not to be, that is the question and no less of an important topic for those citizens in the South Seas who formerly thought they were living in a multi-cultural paradise. Within a few short years, New Zealanders have gone from knowing
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. December 30, 2022 Political commentators and journalists have nominated their politicians of the year, and it’s telling that the three main nominees are all
By and large, New Zealand elects governments that then set about doing what they promised, in some form or another. But sometimes we end up with a government that goes off-piste for whatever reason. Sometimes it is a rogue element and sometimes it is deliberate circumvention of considered norms,
There’s a very good reason that Australians are so averse to changing our Constitution: politicians keep asking them to. Tony Abbott’s most devastating come-back to the 1991 Republic referendum was simple and brutal: Do you trust politicians? We didn’t then, and we do so even less,
Karl Popper, in a much-misunderstood and abused footnote to his The Open Society and Its Enemies, wrote of the “paradox of tolerance”. It’s not a very clear or well-developed argument, but its essence is that, if a society extends tolerance without limit, that will inevitably lead to
Jeffrey Lindsay Jeffrey Dean Lindsay is a US patent agent, technology scout, and intellectual property (IP) strategist using IP to help client cope with the challenges of disruptive innovation. He has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University. One of the great paradoxes of China is how
Robert W Malone MD, MS rwmalonemd.substack.com Finishing up a podcast focused on the book late last week, an unexpected question dropped. It went something like this: “Many people are starting to feel overwhelmed by what has happened, what has been done to them, and feel that there is
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Richard Shaw Professor of Politics Massey University In a tidy alignment of round numbers, this year’s general election will also mark the 30th anniversary of the binding referendum that ushered in the mixed member proportional (MMP) system of voting. It will also be the tenth election held under the
The Covid years leave an image in my mind of a sheepdog, with blood dripping from its toothy, snarling jaws, driving a mob of terrified sheep from behind. Leading from behind was first suggested by Nelson Mandela and pounced upon in 2011 by Barack Obama. It may be a socialist
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. Pundits have been making their political forecasts for the year ahead. Here are some of their predictions about what we can expect in 2023. The
