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Don Brash The last time inflation was over 7 per cent was more than 30 years ago, and I was responsible for doing what Adrian Orr, the current Governor of the Reserve Bank, is trying to do now: get inflation back to the target mandated by the Minister of Finance,
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura In a dangerous turn of events with the Three Five Waters legislation, the government passed a Green Party Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) which entrenched part of the legislation. What this means is: any future legislation to repeal the provision contained in the SOP will need
Strangely, NZ media seem to be ignoring this. Why? In an explosive move, Twitter has released evidence of political censorship in the run-up to the 2020 US election. Endorsed by Twitter’s CEO: How this started: And the person behind the censorship: https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/twitter-
Nobody tell Immigration New Zealand or the NZ Herald, but yours truly is returning to your shores some time next year. After all, we don’t want them digging up those old parking fines. Anyway, it’s been a few years since I visited your fair land — years in which
Alex Klaushofer mercatornet.com Alex Klaushofer is an author and journalist who has written extensively on social affairs, religion and politics in Britain and the Middle East. She writes on Substack at Ways of Seeing. More by Alex Klaushofer As the internet becomes ever more crucial to day-to-day
On the day I started high school I was plonked in a desk beside a person who has turned out to be my closest lifelong friend. We hit it off immediately: email twice a day, speak on the telephone several times per week, and they pop down here once a
We all know the extent to which Jacinda Ardern spins everything. She spins so much that I’m surprised she doesn’t get dizzy. For someone who once famously claimed that she had never told a lie in politics… well, let’s just say that she has certainly made up
Bryce Edwards The Democracy Project Disclosure: Bryce Edwards is the director of the Democracy Project, which is the recipient of Victoria University of Wellington research funding, which comes from Grant and Marilyn Nelson’s Gama Foundation. The taxpayer is short of billions of dollars that were overpaid to businesses during
Jacinda Ardern has been caught, yet again, telling lies. She’s now constantly telling us lies, sweet little lies. There is no other way to describe it other than lying. How else can this not be lies? Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern attended a Labour Party caucus meeting where a last-
I do not believe the Nats have a clue where they sit in the political scene. They are not worth considering in my view even as opposition. The Labour lite label still describes the National Party, as they seem hell-bent on becoming a second Labour government embracing Labour’s
The Law Society has labelled the entrenchment clause in the Three Waters legislation “constitutionally objectionable” and introduced in a way that is “undemocratic”. Newshub has obtained a letter sent to Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta from the President of the Law Society on Thursday raising “serious concerns” about the provision
Racism, Thomas Sowell observes, is not quite dead. That’s because certain people desperately need to keep it alive. Politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’, are keeping racism (so-called) “on life support”, because a problem solved is an existential
Guy Hatchard Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager at Genetic
It hasn’t taken Jordan Peterson long to upset the self-righteous and censorious, on his current visit to Australia. Like all of us who’ve taken a plane flight lately, Peterson found himself enduring the fatuous drivel of an in-flight “welcome to country”. Unlike the rest of us,
The Greens must have thought they’d hit the jackpot with Lidia Thorpe: a strident, militant leftist, a woman, and an “Indigenous”? If only she was gay or disabled, they’d have swept their intersectional bingo card clean. Instead, it turns out to be very much a case of buyer’
Brian Tamaki A big resounding “Good on You” to the parents of baby Will and supporters for their courageous stand to not only refuse a vaccinated blood transfusion but to also withstand an unbelievable threat from the Nanny State to take the parents’ child into state guardianship! I see this
