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Travelling to Porirua on Monday (taking my car in for repair), I was listening to Newstalk ZB (the Wellington morning section) where they were talking about local councils. In fact, the presenter, Nick Mills, was positively incensed; the local council simply ignores submissions from the public, just doing exactly what
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Warning Long read. 2090 words.
Transcript (includes speeches from ACT, Labour and Green MPs). With support from just ACT and National, the Education and Training (Freedom of Expression) Amendment Bill was defeated. https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/mp-simon-o-connor-a-fine-speech-about-free-speech National MP Simon O’Connor is dead right
Gary Bauer PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Gary L. Bauer is an Opinion Columnist at The Patriot Post, and is one of America’s most effective spokesmen for pro-life, pro-family, and pro-growth values. Bauer is a frequent guest on a wide variety of political talk shows
New Conservative Ted Johnston, Coleader of New Conservative states “There are important changes needed to the Electoral laws, but we must beware Labour and National passing self-serving laws to further perpetuate their duopoly.” Our elections are just the passing of the baton of power between them. This has led
As I wrote for Insight yesterday, one clear lesson from Australia’s federal election is: rich people vote left. The idea that the Liberals are the party of the rich is so fixed in the minds of the Australian left that they simply cannot, will not, countenance any suggestion to
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com The World Health Assembly are in congress this week to discuss the proposed Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Treaty (“the Treaty”) and amendments to the International Health Regulations (“IHR”). Authored by Kirsten Murfitt from New Zealand Lawyers Speaking Out With Science (NZLSOS)
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson A gang fuelled crime wave in Auckland that’s seen five drive by shootings over the weekend and a further seven at homes in South Auckland overnight shows we need urgent action on gangs. Once upon a time gangs had an unspoken rule where they
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Well, we don’t call him “Each-Way Albo” for nothing. Newly-sworn in PM Anthony Albanese’s very first day on the job brought a splendid display of the Labor leader’s penchant for speaking out of both sides of his mouth. There should be no surprises that the
Lyle Shelton mercatornet.com Lyle Shelton blogs at www.lyleshelton.com.au In an election where neither of the parties of government offered an agenda of substance, many Australians voted for those who did. Whether they knew what they were voting for is a different matter, but it’s only
Whatever its faults, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is a dazzling tapestry of character study. Rand sketches her characters with acid wit and little sympathy. One of her few sympathetic characters, at least initially, is the innocently sincere Catherine Halsey. But even she ends up as a nasty harridan — a
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The colourful Sydney identity Graham “Richo” Richardson, who many of you may know from Sky News Australia, was once the Secretary of the New South Wales Labor party (this was 40-odd years ago). He, like Paul Keating, Neville Wran, and other senior ALP figures at that time in Sydney,
voicesforfreedom.co.nz How many times in the last 18 months have you heard the line spouted that the Covid vaccine lowers your chance of becoming unwell enough to be hospitalised? Or, that you’ll be less likely to catch the coof in the first place? Before anyone has a
The Government waited for the Princess of the Pestilence to jog off overseas before delivering the bad news that we can all stay at Orange for the foreseeable future because if we don’t then Omicron will surge some more with winter approaching. Clearly, the Government believes ‘Orange for Win’
