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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. A consensus is emerging that the Government has generally managed the Covid crisis very well over the last 18 months, but they have dropped the
I was about to write this piece when I came across Claire Trevett’s article in the Weekend Herald. I have to say there is usually not a lot that Claire and I can agree on but her article at the weekend was pretty much spot on. She wrote about
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Ruawai Dairy Farmer ACT welcomes the Far North Council doing the right thing and dropping the plans to confiscate land from farmers and iwi. Private property rights are under threat thanks to the Government’s directive to councils to identify and manage Significant Natural
Jacinda Ardern’s Government is really hitting home runs at the moment. This is especially true in two key areas that the Prime Minister herself declared were vitally important to the health and well being of the country: child poverty and climate change. Jacinda Ardern told us all, while we
Oiwan Lam Regional Editor for Northeast Asia globalvoices.org A media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. My Chinese writings are in inmediahk.net and my Twitter account is @oiwan. A few dozen Chinese cities have introduced restrictive policies banning unvaccinated people from visiting public venues including
Despite the incessant hysteria of the political elite and their media lickspittles, the Chinese virus hasn’t proved exactly the plague apocalypse we’ve been told. The death toll in Australia remains far lower than even for recent bad flu seasons, and a mere fraction of the leading causes of
As I’ve written before, I’ve often wondered what it was like to see a free country slide into authoritarianism around you — and in the past 18 months, I’ve got to see exactly what it’s like. Australians, like the rest of the world, have been herded like
Figures released to National show, that since March, Police Officers are continuing to leave the force while gang numbers explode, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “From March to June 2021, Constabulary Police numbers have dropped from 10,244 to 10,117, a drop of 127, meanwhile over the
Michael Tracey ronpaulinstitute.org This week, the first felony sentence was handed down in relation to what’s popularly called the “insurrection” of January 6, 2021. Though he only pleaded guilty to a single count of “obstruction of an official proceeding,” defendant Paul Hodgkins — whose criminal act entailed milling around
Christian Toto newsbusters.org The term Cancel Culture is bandied about in the press with too many caveats. Liberal news outlets preface the phrase with either “so-called” or put it in scare quotes. The message is clear. Many on the Right are blowing the term out of proportion. It’
25th July 2021 Myanmar’s economy is set to shrink by 18 percent this fiscal year amid the ongoing political upheaval caused by the military coup and a rapid surge in the third wave of COVID-19 in the country, the World Bank said in its latest report. The World
Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka 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 It fell to RNZ to break the news to the
The Labour Government’s claim to have delivered 8000 new state houses has been revealed as a pumped-up figure that vastly exaggerates the number of houses it has actually built, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “The Housing Minister, along with her colleagues, has repeatedly claimed the Government
