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Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments It was Prime Minister Helen Clark who started the practice of making apologies to groups who could be
Free Press ACT Party The Haps The Government has lost its way, and voters are telling them in the polls. It apologised for immigration policy that happened before Jacinda Ardern was born at an Auckland Town Hall rally. Meanwhile, down the road, ACT MPs listened to today’s immigrants separated
Dr James McDowall ACT Immigration spokesperson The Labour Party has left business owners in a state of distress for far longer than was necessary with some going to the wall or suffering from mental health problems as a result of the Government preventing workers from coming here. ACT welcomes RSE
The Government’s plan to allow one-way quarantine-free travel for Recognised Seasonal Employer workers from Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu is the right one but should have come much sooner, says Leader of the Opposition and National’s Pacific Peoples spokesperson Judith Collins. “We called for a move like
Dr Stuart Lange On behalf of the New Zealand Christian Network Dr Stuart Lange is the National Director of the NZCN and is a Senior Research Fellow at Laidlaw College, where he was formerly Vice Principal. Stuart wrote and presented the historical DVD documentary Te Rongopai: 200 years of the
Barrister Steven Price told Q+A there are many issues with the proposed hate speech laws and it could create more problems than it fixes.
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. If you judged the US’s current COVID-19 situation only by the headlines, you’d come away thinking that we’re spiraling back into pandemic disaster. Localities like Los
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org People can tell themselves that they didn’t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did. They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written in big, bold letters, some of them in scary-looking Germanic
Since my column on changing the name of our country was published, I have been inundated with correspondence from all over the country and from all kinds of people, National MP for Kaikoura Stuart Smith says. “The overwhelming reaction to my stance on the matter was incredibly positive from both
The Government must implement a standardised way to measure progress to make sure no children fall through the cracks, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “If a child is falling through the cracks, then they’re missing out on all the opportunities a good education provides. “We need a
1st August 2021 The following piece carries on the theme from yesterday’s piece about the UK ambassador to the UN. The covid epidemic is getting out of control and has the potential to devastate the region which in turn could spread it to the rest of the world. Not
I sometimes wonder if the Green-Left really are as stupid as they sound. Not just in their endless insistence that socialism will work next time, but for their apparent utter ignorance of even the most fundamental concepts of economics. Now, I don’t pretend to be an economic expert
Lawrence W. Reed mercatornet.com Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty. Reed served as president of FEE from 2008-2019 after serving previously as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing
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
