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Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
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Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Warning Long Read. 1488 words. Co-governance is currently the most polarising issue in New Zealand politics. There’s something of a culture war over the concept of giving Maori voters or leaders a mandated equal political influence in
Jacinda Ardern has been lying again. She has been touting her ‘brilliance’ at slaying the Covid beast to UK media, claiming we’ve had the “best possible health response” in the OECD. She of course neglected to address her chaotic rollout of RAT tests, the illegal lockdowns and ignoring health
I suspect those of us who were proud to be New Zealanders no longer feel the same pride in our country. The majority of us who never sensed the difference in our family members or workmates being Maori or Non-Maori feel particularly aggrieved with the path a few greedy,
Maori leaders expressed monumental ambitions during initial discussions with the Government about how to recognise the UNDRIP. Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson says those discussions will shape the Government’s plan. […] While specific policies such as the Maori Health Authority were discussed, the overriding focus was on recognising tino rangatiratanga.
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Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney based in the United States. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to COVID-19 since March 2020, and previously authored China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign and The Masked Ball
If you took your perfectly healthy newborn child and cut off its legs so that it spent the rest of its life in a wheelchair for your own gratification, what would people say about you? They’d call you a monster. What parent, after all, doesn’t want their child
The Rotorua District Council Bill must be scrapped following the Attorney General’s report today that it is discriminatory and would breach the Bill of Rights, National’s Justice spokesperson, Paul Goldsmith says. “The Bill gives greater voting rights to people on the Maori roll and this cannot be justified.
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Labour party has no choice but to vote against the Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill after Attorney General David Parker found the Bill would limit the right to be free from discrimination and cannot be justified under the Bill of Rights Act. This
David Seymour ACT Party Leader ACT is appealing to the Government to make openness and inclusion the non-negotiable condition for work on our country’s constitutional future. Labour’s consultation on He Puapua is already dividing rather than uniting, asking only select Maori groups about our constitutional future. Closed-
Information Opinion Recently, our intelligence agencies declassified their threat assessments in New Zealand which included a summary of the ‘extremist’ groups that were considered a security risk. The things they said: Under “faith motivated violent extremism”: They acknowledged there are still ISIS-inspired radicalised people in New Zealand. However, they
familyfirst.org.nz Looking back at the events which unfolded over the summer months, it’s interesting to read that Human Rights Commissioner, Paul Hunt, told the Prime Minister last year there was a “divisive quality” to the traffic light framework. “I said that I thought there was a risk
