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Mary Dawood Catlin brownstone.org Mary Dawood Catlin is a Canadian writer, historian, pianist, and advocate for human rights and liberties. Her work has been published in various outlets and in the peer-reviewed volume Making Sense of Music. Studies in Musical Semiotics. There’s a new, significant movement on
Stephen Berry Voting papers have started to be issued in Auckland and across the country for the 2022 local body elections. Former Auckland Mayoral candidate and political commentator Stephen Berry is encouraging people to have as much information available as possible before casting their vote and recommends they use the
Now, I’m as sceptical of conspiracy theories as anyone. As I often say, reading the Illuminatus! trilogy in my early teens inoculated me against the undoubted attraction of conspiratorial thinking. But I might need a booster, after the last few years. Because, if the last few years have taught
Grant Duncan Massey University Grant Duncan completed a PhD at the University of Auckland, and has worked at Massey University’s Albany campus (Auckland) since 1993. He teaches in the politics program, primarily in the areas of political theory and New Zealand politics. His most recent book is The Problem
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Susie Ferguson, in her regular weekly grilling of Chris Luxon, was determined to get her pound of flesh after Marie Dew’s independent investigation failed to uphold the accusation against Sam Uffindell, originally reported on Radio NZ. Although 14 people contributed to the investigation, the accuser, for whom the procedure
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 Stephen Berry. Support Racial Division? You Are Just What They Are Looking For. The poison of identity politics is
JL The Labour Government is rushing through a new coroner’s amendment bill to ease the “back-log”. It seems absurd to make legislative changes when the reason, origin, and unprecedented rise in all cause deaths globally are still to be officially determined. The closing date for submissions is 11.
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Pressure is increasing on the Auditor General to undertake an inquiry into numerous contracts, appointments and grants awarded
Grant Robertson has decided to hold a pity party over the amount of abuse Labour politicians are copping when they dare to saunter arrogantly outside of the Wellington Beltway. He has complained that some protestors called him mean things and one had a lamington that may or may not possibly
what’s funny about this political ad is that it can be taken two ways. Are they encouraging people who believe that manmade climate change is a scam to get out and vote? Or are they telling people who believe that mankind causes climate change to get out and vote
For a mob who like to call themselves “warriors”, city-based Aboriginal activists sure seem like a fragile lot. So delicate are these little flowers that they feel “unsafe” at the very mention of a woman’s name. It’s a wonder they can bear to look at their own
The number of children unenrolled from school has more than doubled under Labour, National’s Education spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “After five years of Labour and an extra $5 billion in education spending every year, the number of children unenrolled from school has skyrocketed to 8,500 – more than double
To damn them with faint praise, it should be acknowledged that the embiggeners of apartheid in Australia are bothering to ask before they irrevocably divide the country along racial lines. They’re still not telling us the whole truth of what they’re up to, of course, but at least
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker, Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at The Epoch Times,
Information Opinion In the 1890s the US Supreme Court entrenched what was known as the “Separate But Equal” doctrine, bypassing the concept of everybody being equal under the law. This meant that segregation and discrimination along racial lines was legal so long as services were available to each race. For
