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I was both relieved and very impressed when David Parker, Attorney General announced last week that he believed that the Rotorua Council Representation Bill could not go ahead because it is undemocratic. As it stands, it would have given Maori voters in Rotorua more valuable voting rights than non-Maori,
Twitter is an awful place, mostly filled with bullying, nasty lefty liberal elite tossers, intent on hating anyone with a differing opinion from theirs. They love to incite mobs to destroy anyone they find offensive. One of these liberal elite tossers is Hamish Keith, a Ponsonby arts luvvie who has
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Tom Mullen fee.org Tom Mullen hosts the Tom Mullen Talks Freedom podcast and is the author of Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? and A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America.
There ought to be few illusions that PM Scott Morrison is fighting the 2022 election against the odds. While Morrison should not be underestimated as a campaigner — and so far, he has scarcely set a foot wrong — he has apparently spent the last three years doing everything he could to
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
We know, thanks to leaked internal research, that the Meta stable of social media apps are toxic. Facebook, Instagram… they’re all mental and social poison, especially to teenagers. Meta knows this, because its own scientists have done the research. We know it, because the research was leaked. Yet, in
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. New Zealand is currently facing a housing crisis and what underpins it is a severe shortage of homes accompanied by house price inflation. The combination of these two factors has driven inequality up and frankly locked too many hardworking
Capitalist Just when I thought the embarrassing amateurishness from the ACT Party couldn’t get any worse, David Seymour managed to find a way. He has challenged Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson to a debate on co-governance. Oh boy. That sort of thing – debating – was always the trap American
Gary Moller garymoller.com Gary is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance rather than just treating the symptoms. Information Opinion Warning Long read. 2064 words. As I write, the rescue helicopter flies past our home yet again on its
JM White Information Opinion Say what you like about Winston Peters. I remember listening to Parliament on the radio in the 1980s when he took on the Fay Richwhite Cook Islands fraud. Corruption had seeped sewer-like throughout the highest institutions in this land. But surely you know the whole
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. 2105 words.
Earlier I wrote about the corrosive nature of social media against democracy and trust. Today I want to explore the poison dart guns of social media and how they are instrumental in the poisoning and polarisation of society. Social media gives the ‘weak’ a powerful poison dart with which they
Capitalist There is a marvellous song called “Overkill” by Men At Work, an Australian band from the 1980s. Unless I am very much mistaken, the first verse – “I can’t get to sleep/I think about the implications of diving in too deep/and possibly the complications” – seems to sum
JM White On this day we remember those men who died young and now lie in another land And those who returned when this country had not yet been sold by the hidden hand And men who in '51 found they must fight once again for their share of
