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Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for the Mises Wire and Power and Market, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in public policy and international
The Immigration Minister’s comments that employers across the tourism sector are struggling to hire staff because of low wages and insecure working conditions are unhelpful, insulting to business owners and an attempt to distract from the Government’s immigration failures, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “Through no
Apparently white people are the only people who can be held to be guilty for their sins of their ancestors. White people are the only ones whose statues can be torn down and their names scrubbed from the public landscape. Consider Islamo-foghorn Yassmin Abdel-Magied screeching that white people’
Christian Toto newsbusters.org Many Twitter users press the “publish” button knowing their thoughts could get them kicked off the platform. Or worse. Just google the names “Roseanne Barr” and “Justine Sacco” for Exhibits A and B. Liberal celebrities don’t have that fear. They can say almost anything on
Jacinda is wrapping up her European tour, which her minions in the media are describing as an unmitigated success. Pictured in a white, floaty dress with Boris Johnson, she looked more like a bride than a prime minister. She ought to confer with Mrs Johnson, who is commended for her
Harvey Risch brownstone.org Harvey Risch is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. Dr Risch received his MD degree from the University of California San Diego and PhD from the University of Chicago.
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader The incompetence of the Labour Government was clear for all to see Sunday evening on 1News with the appointment of someone to a critical role without even checking his CV. There is nothing more important than the protection of vulnerable children. And yet Matthew
After I wrote about the electricity crisis in Australia, last Thursday it happened here as Transpower declared a grid emergency. This should not have come as a surprise, as Transpower had warned last month, based on modelling, that there would be 37 days between June and August where there could
Matthew Tukaki is one of New Zealand’s biggest racists and an online bully to boot. He’s also carried on like a flash rat with a gold tooth. Except it turns out his CV is a bit… well… let’s say… embellished. 1News has been digging into his past
Information Opinion One of the features of Japan during World War Two was the numerous atrocities they committed throughout East Asia: everything from the Burma railway to Changi Prison, to refusing to acknowledge the Geneva Convention. All sorts of awful stuff. An often-overlooked fact about Japan’s conduct is
Marcus Roberts mercatornet.com Marcus Roberts is a senior researcher at the Maxim Institute in Auckland, New Zealand, and was co-editor of the former MercatorNet blog, Democracy is Destiny. Marcus has a background in the law, both in practice and academia. You’ve probably heard by now that the
As you will no doubt know we now have a new health system. Yes, the old racist, white-man health system is gone and has been replaced by an inclusive, non-racist, non-sexist, non-transphobic health system. Today New Zealand launches a new health system replacing 20 district health
On a wet dismal day in February 2022 thousands of Kiwis stood in the rain, waving and even saluting a convoy of vehicles that drove from the bottom of the South Island and from the tip of the North Island, heading for Wellington. There were people on bridges and along
One of the amusing things about our parliamentarians is their elemental self importance. Most MPs have a strange belief constituents are taking much notice of what they do and consequently their day-to-day actions matter, when, generally speaking, they do not. I shall illustrate what I mean by comparing
