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I have been collating voter recommendations since I contested the 2013 local body elections under the Affordable Auckland affiliation. My efforts in 2013 and 2016 were quite minimal with the latter taking a couple of days. In 2019, I sought to write a full-scale guide covering every district health
Rt Hon Winston Peters NZ First Leader’s Address 16 October 2022 Ladies and Gentlemen. Good afternoon. It’s a personal inspiration to join you all here this afternoon in Christchurch – and to be part of the 29th New Zealand First Party Conference. As we said this time last year,
New documents released under the Official Information Act show how Immigration NZ scrambled to stop Avi Yemini entering New Zealand BEFORE it was even known that he would be coming to report on the protest at parliament. The heavily redacted documents show a predisposition towards refusing entry as they urgently
Sadly, these young activists don’t seem to think their actions through, and their behaviours are counter-productive to their causes. A selection: Young adults from Just Stop Oil glue their hands beneath van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”: theguardian.com and newshub.co.nz. And again, more from the ‘let’s
Liberty Nation Staff libertynation.com Our authors are new, young and fresh – intelligent, bold and edgy. Our goal is to open our readers to a new generation of thought in the vanguard of the freedom movement. Responding to January 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS), former President Donald Trump
If you’ve ever been foolish enough to try and debate politics with the contemporary left, you’ve probably come away wondering if you’re living on different planets. The left live on a planet where Jacinda Ardern is kind and competent, Joe Biden is as sharp as a tack
Information Opinion US President Joe Biden has issued a blanket pardon for those federally convicted of possessing small amounts of cannabis. Although this will only affect a relatively small number of people, its significance cannot be overstated. US cannabis policy has been thrust to the fore after President Joe Biden
righttolife.org.uk The Quebec College of Physicians in Canada has been heavily criticised after its recent statement in support of euthanasia for severely disabled newborn children, as well as for children aged 14 to 17. On Friday 7 October, Dr Louis Roy, speaking on behalf of the Quebec College
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Graham Adams. Our Prime Minister’s Two-Faced View of Democracy When Jacinda Ardern spoke at Madrid’s “Tech
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Lushington D. Brady Why Brag about Things You Never Did? Identity politics is strictly for losers Australian Aboriginal academic
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz They don’t get much media coverage at the moment, but the New Zealand First Party could be central to the next year in politics, and determine the shape of the next government. The latest opinion survey out yesterday
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura The prime minister is delivering on her ambition to lead the world in pricing agricultural emissions by announcing the Government’s proposal to levy farmers for their emissions. It is ironic that the one thing she may deliver on will put us in breach of
The NZ First annual conference is being held in Christchurch this weekend. On Saturday, Winston Peters addressed the room. Some snippets: It’s a circus. You talk about Economics 101? They can’t even work that out. We are here because above all things, we stand for democracy. Democracy in
Justin Roberts Anglia Ruskin University Henry Chung University of Essex Justin is an Associate Professor in Health and Exercise Nutrition with a focus on applied and health-based nutrition. Henry Chung’s background is in Sport & Exercise Sciences, where he completed his Sports Science BSc (2012 – 2015) and Sport
Ely elylazar.substack.com Information Opinion Before I get to the differences between these two individuals, let’s look at something common to both. George Floyd and Ashli Babbitt were killed at the hands of police. Floyd was restrained for almost nine minutes by officer Derek Chauvin who had his
Scratch a sanctimonious Green and you’ll find a raging hypocrite scarcely concealed beneath the surface. This has been true of the left, of course, since the earliest days of socialism, when the Bloomsbury Circle would privately sneer at the “awful” working classes they pretended to champion. The Soviets had
