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If there’s no expert dealing with the problem, it’s really actually twice the problem. Cause only an expert can deal with the problem Laurie Anderson, Only An Expert. Have we finally broken the spell of “expertise”? Or, more correctly, have “experts” finally uncloaked themselves as the credentialed frauds
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
The Transport Minister has allowed the NZ Transport Agency to become politicised, forcing the Public Service Commissioner to reprimand the agency for running ads with Labour and Green local election candidates, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “NZTA is in trouble after putting up advertisements that featured Labour and
Claire Trevett’s article in the Weekend Herald provided an interesting headline. It read, ‘PM needs dusting of sweet news on stale cake’. The reality, which maybe Claire has yet to realise, is that the PM’s cake is not only stale but also decidedly sour. Many of her cakes,
Information Opinion Having control of the radio waves is a powerful way to massage the message. When I heard a confident and (clearly) arrogant Marcus Lush state he would not give up his evening radio show on Newstalk ZB if he won the Invercargill mayoralty, I was shocked. He is
Jacinda Ardern famously stated that if you were vaccinated and boosted, “You won’t get sick, and you won’t die.” She also said that Covid was a disease of the unvaccinated and the virus was literally hunting them down. But the latest figures from the Ministry of Health show
He referred to a July incident in Whangarei, in which he left by the back door of a venue to avoid about a dozen anti-mandate protesters and those opposing the closure of the Marsden Pt oil refinery blocked the way to his car, one bearing a large lamington cake
Mark Oshinskie brownstone.org Mark Oshinskie is an attorney, athlete, artist, agricultor, and advocate. When I was 10, I had a 12-year-old sister, Denise, and two brothers. Lenny was 14 and Danny was 5. We boys slept in the same room in a small, single-story house in
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. Being a public servant, such as a councillor in your local area, is an incredibly difficult job and is often underappreciated. But it gives you the ability to serve your people and possibly improve lives. If we didn’t
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Creating a new public holiday on a whim is causing chaos amongst businesses, our health system and schools, what’s worse, we’re behind the world again after waiting two weeks for Jacinda Ardern to get home from New York. This public holiday is estimated
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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. Wellingtonians are desperately unhappy with the politicians running their city, and a new poll out yesterday shows they’
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
September 19th, 2022. The United Kingdom, and indeed the world bade farewell to Queen Elizabeth II today. London was full of people lining the route from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey, then to the Wellington Arch and finally along non-motorway roads to her last resting place in St. Georges
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
Growing up I was often fascinated by the role of whistleblowers and journalists holding institutions to account. What was fascinating was the idea of protection for those who leak private information. This focus on the privacy of the individual rather than the privacy of the information they are releasing to
