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Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz Few parents are aware of the dire state of education in New Zealand. If they were, and if apathy were not so prevalent in our country, there would be a general public outcry about what is being foisted upon our children. It is bordering on
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. Last week a letter written
Jacinda Ardern’s government was elected off of the back of the promise to fix New Zealand’s housing crisis. Since that time the crisis has gotten worse, exponentially. Almost everything they have done to “fix” the problems in the market has in fact exacerbated them. We all know that
This takes the cake in wasteful expenditure and total lack of care about the taxpayers and ratepayers. It was primarily funded by the NZTA, I presume as one of the Covid grants, all of which were conceived in ridiculous haste just get a big slice of taxpayers’ handouts. Anyhow, this
Human beings are social creatures. We go out, we mingle with others, we visit friends, we socialise. We may even reach out to other people to dull the pain of loneliness. We also use substances that change our consciousness. We take caffeine to wake us up and to give us
Good afternoon. It’s a privilege to be speaking to you all today. To all the loyal and hardworking members of the National Party, I’d like to say a huge thank you on behalf of myself and the entire National Party caucus. We all appreciate how much you do
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National Party The National Party is pleased to announce our members have elected Jannita Pilisi, David Ryan, Stefan Sunde and Sylvia Wood to the Board of the National Party, joining Peter Goodfellow, Rachel Bird, Matt Doocey and Hon Judith Collins in the Party’s leadership. The new National Party Board
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. When significant voices on the political left start speaking out against Labour’s proposed hate speech laws it’s a sign that they’re in
So yesterday I went to my 3 monthly doctors checkup, (my doctor is a happy Muslim chappy and we quite often stray into politics and other non medical matters, he was saying he has just sold 3 out of 4 of his rental houses, due to the government’s regulations
Jacinda Ardern is leading a government that is now so far out of touch with public sentiment that, as the polls are starting to show, they have all but burnt their bridges. Their ministers seem ever more incompetent to the point where they look like they have no understanding of
Graham Adams democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom The hate-speech debate is quickly becoming an arena where reputations go to die. Kris Faafoi, the
Ashley Bloomfield has been caught telling fibs to the Health Select Committee. Like all good little civil servants he has ‘fessed up, yet again, to misleading Members of Parliament: Director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has apologised to Parliament’s health select committee for providing them incorrect information. On
TV3’s pregnant Samantha Hayes was admitted to hospital last month for a “scary few days spent in hospital fighting a mystery infection, facing worries her baby might be arriving two months early”. Hayes and her unborn baby recovered from a fever thought to be caused by an unknown virus,
