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Colin Ford In Other News In 1981 during the Springbok Tour Protests, I was 15 years old and perhaps the only topic I knew less about than the apartheid system in South Africa, was rugby. I may have been an unusual kiwi kid, sure I enjoyed my sports, but rugby
Information Opinion Taking a drive into town on Sunday morning, I heard someone on the radio campaigning for animal rights. This was not just the right to painless euthanasia, or a life free from cruelty, but actual rights. It caused me to imagine a dog in a pearl necklace going
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
After the High Court handed the regime their collective arses regarding mandates for Police and the Armed Forces it should have been a wake-up call for them to stop illegally breaking the Bill of Rights Act. I hazard a guess that many business owners who put in place their
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. In a week when Russia
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righttolife.org.uk The Government is under increasing pressure to end the provision of ‘DIY’ home abortions as a medical doctor and research associate at the University of Oxford has described them as “every bit as horrifying” as warned. COVID-19 emergency measures are set to end in England this
What do the Wars on Drugs, Climate Change, and Covid all have in common? Answer: they can all be expressed as follows: We must do X in order to prevent Y where Y is a threat of biblical proportions and X is taking extreme action to prevent the threat, most
Canada’s Mounties have long enjoyed a reputation as Dudley Do-Right upstanding, reliable heroes. Beside the cartoon hero, 90s crime series Due South, premised on a Mountie sent to show the roughneck American coppers a lesson in Canadian politeness and square-jawed honesty. That image is unlikely to survive
Brighid In October 1915 the NZ Parliament passed the Discharged Soldier Settlement Act which gave returned servicemen the opportunity to own some land and apply for cheap finance so they could develop it into productive farms. The government emphasised that success in the Soldier-Settlement scheme would ultimately depend on
Yeah, yeah, mega-rich corporation dudes are evil and all, but, seriously, how can we not be entertained by Daddy Elon? Sure, Tesla sucks, but SpaceX has done more for space travel in just the last few years than NASA has done in decades. Not only has SpaceX slashed the
Alexander Hall PA Pundits – International The Canadian government ruthlessly cracked down on peaceful protesters demonstrating against the government’s draconian COVID-19 mandates. And the powers that be are unfreezing the accounts of some organizers, participants and donors now that other Canadians are suing for damages. Out of the frying
Colin Ford In Other News Following on the heels of Friday’s landmark High Court decision which overturned the government’s illegal Covid-19 vaccine mandates for both the police and armed forces, thousands of New Zealanders marched over Auckland Harbour Bridge on Saturday, demanding that the government end all
Colin Parkinson This nation has been basically torn apart by the current government and the opposition parties have done little to stop it. Think back to 2019. Now imagine how you would react if someone told you the following would happen in New Zealand over the next few years: * People
Martin Harris Mr Luxon, I’ve watched your speech “Leader’s Address – COVID and Divided Society” and read the text several times. I was left cold by the actual live-streamed speech and the manner in which it was delivered and quite honestly felt alienated by it. I felt like
